The biggest beneficiary of Pax Americana is the United States, the second biggest is the entire world.

Yeah, if only it didn't run on a "first past the post" system...

This is a very uncharitable view of how foreign policy works. It is absolutely in our best interest to not only maintain strong diplomatic ties with peoples and countries who share our values, but also cooperate in defense efforts and ensuring safety and security from military actions that would undo things we benefit from in the long term.

Sadly America's politicians stopped explaining this and took the American public's support for granted expected us to see things the way the Greatest Generation did. Our allies took our support for granted and spent their money elsewhere, then started making fun of us for subsidizing their affordable healthcare.

Our political class getting lazy and stopping doing the hard half of their jobs (effectively communicating and building national consensus) and instead adopting Jon Stewart levels of discourse and you get where we are today.

> playing world police

Don't you mean schoolyard bullies?

Because that's how much of the world, including your allies, view the US.

Then again, seeing the state of the US police force, maybe that's why US people think bullying and policing is the same thing?

That is exactly what the US' adversaries would like you to believe is the case. By all means, carry water for the despots of the world as you turn inwards.