Inflationary monetary policy on the scale that the US does it requires an empire of nation states that only accept dollars for oil - criminal monetary policy requires criminal foreign policy...

All the middle eastern countries bombed and invaded by the US, or who have been through some strangely coincidental revolution, all have a few things in common - they are oil producers, they made previous agreements to abandon the dollar for oil trade, and during the subsequent US/NATO/ISIS/rebel induced regime changes the "rebels" felt the need to establish a central bank and as I understand things a lot of gold wound up shipped to the US.

The US military does nothing to keep anyone safe and comfortable, they just help facilitate the crimes of the US political overclass. It's a scam - do you not feel like you were lied to by your recruiters? Were they really honest about what you were signing up for? Not that they necessarily knew either - they are just low level pawns too.

It's the blind leading the blind for the most part, but that doesn't really excuse anyone or change reality. All the info you need to understand what is really going on exists - if you refuse to look it up (especially after someone tries to help you see reality) then your choice to remain ignorant makes you no better than the shit-heads you serve.

I would suggest starting with Tom Woods - he has a ton of free online content and if I remember correctly his book Real Dissent has a lot of good info on foreign policy. If you are interested in others I can provide them, feel free to PM me.

Don't get me wrong, I started from a place of deep patriotism for this country - I still think the philosophical understanding achieved by Jefferson and others is amazing, but their political experiment failed - they created the world's smallest government and it grew into the largest empire to ever exist.