@CommunityNotes The Community note is mistaken as it argues against a straw man.

@CommunityNotes

The Community note is mistaken as it argues against a straw man. The author “George” used an incomplete sentence “…Americans bear the costs” should read “… Americans bear the cost of world defense, finance, transport, and trade.”
Fully stated, Americans pay the cost of Pax Americana, european defense, insurance of borders, insurance of human rights, Insurance of free trade, freedom of the seas, minimization of oil prices to protect european economies, world patterns of finance, production, transport and trade, created the postwar institutional model of the IMF and the World Bank as well as the United Nations. At the expense of the american working and middle classes.
The USA did this when in the postwar period it could have continued to conquer china and russia, and set up a taxation system to pay for this policing of the world under the pax americana.
Americans were so successful at their mission to end communism and it’s replacement with islamism, that they have raised the world to near parity, and as such no longer hold postwar competitive economic advantage and can no longer afford to pay for policing the entire world system of sovereignty transport and peaceful trade.
So everyone has to ‘step up’ and pay their way, so that americans can have such things as taxpayer subsidized healthcare (“Medicare for All”) instead of state run healthcare (“waiting times”). And that the few remaining wanna-be-empires (iran, russia, china) and their predation on their people can be contained producing a world of peaceful nation states insulated from fear of conquest and exploitation.
Frankly americans are rather ‘fed up’ with european claims of moral high ground when americans have burned their working and middle classes to create the luxury of european peace and prosperity.
Cheers
CD