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Was Israel a mistake?
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I am not sure what tea leaves you are reading but I think you will find the good ole USA has some bite in it still.
As to “49% taxpayers money go to wars or former wars”
I went to wikipedia, for a quick response and found
“The United States spends 3.7% of its GDP on its military,”
Somehow I figure US government taxes and spends is more than 7.4% of GDP (=3.7% divided by your 49% )
Likewise
“the US outlays for defense as a percentage of federal discretionary spending, has from Fiscal Year 2003 consumed more than half (50.5%) of all such funding and has risen steadily. Discretionary spending accounts for approximately 1/3 of all federal outlays”
If defense = half of discretionary federal spending and discretionary spending equals 1/3 of all government spending, it would be reasonable to assume defense consumed 1/6 (17%) of all government spending.
Now wiki might not be the best source and I could go look some more but it certainly sounds truer than your claim.
Focus on Europe. “The region is passing to European Union”
Hardly. The EU has enough problems, they like to play statesmanship but at the end of the day Fortress Europe is in a hell of a mess after decades of stupid EU economics. They are in no position to lead the world anywhere
“I believe the there hardline islamists will replace them”
then you better pray USA remains the strongest power, Europe does not have the will to fight, the old Eastern Block is a rust bucket and China has more problems than it knows what to do with.
Apart from those four, there is no one else.
“The world want a solution to the conflict and Israel's behave to Palestinians,”
Actually the Palestinians have messed that up, the world does not give a rats anymore for Palestinians, they are a failed state, a bunch of terrorists, an international pariah