They just had the largest protest in their history, have a handful of cities under military intervention to stop the protests, and are close to elect somebody that promises to fight against the federal government as mayor of their largest city.
What exactly do you expect them to do?
So, they wished the increased spending to the monkey paw and got exactly what they were wishing for: countries are cancelling orders of complex US equipment all over the world, and Europe is developing a military industry to compete with them.
No one can cut off the US oil supply.
Well, if the US invests on being able to use its own oil without mixing with anything else, the can become true.
Not to mention they could simply seize oil haulers for themselves with their navy.
A few times, yeah. The world won’t react well to the US specializing into constant piracy.
How many more of these stories need to come out before us around the rest of the world stop treating the United States like a democracy?
What do you mean by “treating like a democracy”? What countries have you seen treating the US in high regards recently? Or, what do you want to change?
I don’t think the US military complex consider that “less undesirable” than basically any other possible outcome.
… well, it may be better in their minds than an asteroid destroying Earth before they can cash-out. Maybe. I’m not sure about this one…