I'll take "what is senior citizen murder" for $300 …. Alex? …. John? …. [Insert name]
Mattis uses some interesting arguments. For example, he argues that the U.S.'s interests are served by submitting ourselves to some global … Entity … Thing. He's vague on what, specifically, is the thing which serves to secure our interests - but … I don't exactly recall any kind of vote by Congress to declare wars or other such things. The Constitution doesn't exactly provide for much on "foreign policy" and who sets it, other than the President as the chief diplomat.
So how is it that some cadre of nebulous international groups are to be the masters of our foreign policy under the Constitution?
As far as I can tell, these nations are all exploiting the fact that taxes provide corporate interests with "free" hitmen they can use in weird round-robbin style schemes of destroying nations outside the ability of those nations' people to intervene or their governments to effectively reign in.
It isn't just America that is being taken advantage of here; it is the other members of the U.N. and Nato who get swept along in undeclared wars and "interest" pursuits with no recourse by the government or the citizens of the nation.