America's Conventional Power: A Global Bluff Called?

What regular nation say anywhere in the world would believe that American conventional military power will protect them. Nobody. You can't. Yeah. The Iranians, um, we sure can H-bomb your country all the way to death. Nobody doubts the ultimate power of America and particularly to deter any attacker from attempting any kind of existential threat against this country. But can we protect your country with anything other than nuclear threats? Apparently not. If you're in Taiwan right now, you could just completely forget about the idea of America coming for you, which by the way, they should have known and probably did already know was has been null and void for many years now. That our navy just cannot get anywhere near Taiwan to defend it in the event of a real war with China. They are 7,000 miles from San Diego and just forget it, anyway. We already knew that, but now the whole world knows it. All those countries all up and down the Persian Gulf. I mean, look, the status quo as of January, as of, you know, February, was that the Persian Gulf is an American lake. It's international waters, not technically, but doesn't matter. ...