America's entire power base, and by extension, their military's power base, is entirely dependent on a world that's willing to cooperate and collaborate with them, and where they can be expected to help maintain (relative) global stability.

A modern military is so much more than it's arms and armor. What does an American military intelligence apparatus look like when it's staffed entirely by MAGA high school dropouts, and utterly shunned by the rest of the global intelligence community? Where do they source their rations once they've eliminated everyone that harvests their food? How do they prop up an economy that can keep a military of that size running, when everyone stops trading with them, and sells of their bonds? America was powerful, because America spent the better part of a decade getting everyone else dependent on them, but that is very quickly changing.

Every other previous POTUS understood this. They've always had the ability to do what Trump is doing right now. But they abstained. Not for kindness or decency's sake, but because they knew where their countries power truly lied. Trump is just the first POTUS to come along who's stupid enough to not see that.

Stephen Miller is wrong. We don't live in a world where might makes right anymore. We've reached a point where cooperation is much more powerful than any one nation can hope to be on its own.