Another major thing was ensuring naval supremacy and fascilitating our shipping of said commodities. This is how we got our Global military. There's a reason we had explosive growth then and it's because it we became a massive exporter to REPLACE Russia. Now what have the retard Globohomo guys done? 'Green' Energy. Can't really export that nor can you MAKE it without energy commodities that we have spent the better part of two decades neglecting outside of a blip of a few years.(2)