National defense strategy and the swamp

I have always respected the realism of the military in general. But the best leaders know when to call retreat to regroup.

It seems that those who think one power---the U.S.---should rule the world (Mattis and president Trump) have won our national defense strategy, over those who seek a multi-polar world (Pat Buchanan and the populist nationalists). 

So it looks like Trump's populist nationalism, at least regarding national defense strategy, which he campaigned on and won with, is over

According to Srdja Trifkovic's stats America has declined economically from having 40 percent of the world economy in 1960 to 20 percent today. We can't afford a bloated global military. We have also had a big cultural decline in traditional values and moved toward cultural Marxism and a relativity of values and morals, now tearing us apart.

It looks like we will have more of the same military industrial complex. The swamp will continue. Washington politicians don't have the balls to promote populist nationalism in the face of the lobbies who control them.

We could be very tough without a global empire, yet still deal with the world, but the global blowhards can't see it that way.  I suppose we will have to fall like Rome without a realistic recovery plan before we will have the recovery of our natural constitutional separation of powers and states, yet alone the more permanent ethnopluralism of ethnostates which usually follows the fall of empires.

This is not happy news, but realism is not always pretty.