Right now, the US is kind of a paper tiger, few countries take the country seriously for a lot of reasons, much of which is tied to self-inflicted problems. The problem with looking weak but having a strong military is the fact you’ll likely h
Right now, the US looks and acts weak which has North Korea and others calling it out but what if we created a far stronger image and worked on creating the impression that calling the US out was suicide?
Part of the President’s job is to promote US Goods and Services, it is part of their charter yet by and large US Presidents tend to be relative luddites when it comes to what is arguably the most powerful legal industry in the nation. Take Air Force One, which is due to be retired. Currently it is a 747, a plane that was designed to be a freight carrier back in the 1970s because the most believed it would be phased out of passenger service quickly in favor of Super Sonic planes that proved too expensive to operate. In short, we ship our President all over the world in a plane that was designed to primarily be a cargo carrier and only remains in service because our industry failed to make the jump to supersonic planes. It is not only a symbol of failure but it basically puts the US President in baggage class.