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This is the wrong way of thinking about it. By this logic, a school shooter is "powerful" because they can kill an entire school. Real power is the power to build, to maintain stability and prosperity. It's not the power to destroy. Anyone can kill. Anyone can bomb, destabilize, spread chaos, set fires, create anarchy. Unfortunately, that's relatively easy. The old America could build, not just kill. That's the America I admire. Btw: this isn't meant to be a dunk on @phl43, as I know what he meant. He's saying the (inherited) logistics infrastructure of the US is so impressive that it can seemingly wage endless wars overseas without any impact on the homefront. And that has indeed been the case in the past. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya...all were essentially watched on a TV screen without much impact on daily life within the US. However, the head of the International Energy Agency has said this is the largest disruption in history. Larger than 1973, which did indeed have a huge impact on daily life in America, though that's before the time of most of those now living. Is today's America truly in better shape than it was in 1973, in terms of manufacturing might, social homogeneity, and the like? Will it truly be untouched by this global energy crisis? I guess we will find out. https://t.co/QgkmntPJaa @phl43 Yes. And I admire that, and back many of those projects. In an ideal world, the focus should return to building up oneself. What they call a "rebuilding era" in sports. But we aren't in that ideal world... https://t.co/jWiSd6wgwp