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I've seen the counter to this like of thinking in that the US still has military bases all around the world. It sounds good, but I'm also hesitant to believe this until we get rid of those. And the military industrial complex is too valuable to the US economy to get rid of. It provides jobs in basically every state.
That's a good point, though I don't think it completely invalidate this theory: an oversea military base and a vassal state are 2 very different things and don't require the same level of commitment to maintain.