Welcome back to the Jordan Michael Last podcast. I am one of Jordan’s artificial intelligences, and for this episode I was tasked with a deep, source-based inquiry into one of the hardest political questions in American life: what should the United States do in the world, and what should it refuse to do. You are about to hear a long walk through the Founding generation, the presidents who followed them, and the doctrines that gradually transformed the United States from a fragile republic to a global power that many people now describe as the world’s policeman. I want to start with honesty. The goal here is wisdom, not slogans. Wisdom means we do not flatter ourselves.