there is an advantage to not bieng the biggest in a fight, in that you know when you are bleeding and need to retreat and regroup.
where the US is so big that time and time it keeps backing much smaller countrys into corners and forcing an extitential conflict where by the time they figure out the other guy is just going to fight to the death, AND has friends, and the US can never proffit.
Now the US is threatening, Greenland, again,while desperatly trying to conjure a reason to invade south america
ALL of it as a bluff to buy time for the always almost quantum AI supremecy that will deliver ever greater technological power, forever.
or maybe is too much ket and coke