70 yrs ago, the United States believed in a multipolar world (or at the least a bipolar world) and had no need to buy any other territory other than small islands to build bases on in order to 'contain' socialsim.  Turns out, it's actually much harder to govern federated territories without an imperial mindset, which we didn't have then But now, in the Trump era, you need to have a quasi imperial mindset to counteract the unipolar (globalists) operators; you need a kind of cooperative unipolar mindset; which they have in FIVEEYES but we're trying to dismantle that after reappropriating it, and by maintaining national sovereignty by pushing Trumpian wise-use, conservative fiscal policies and populism