The world is much less interdependent than we have been led to believe by business journalism.  It's much more of one way street that benefits America and her allies/partners.

It does tend to be a one way street, but it only benefits "America" if you consider the only interests of "America" to be the financial elites. I find it rather hard to see how the generation of volunteer US soldiers who have been traumatized in Iraq and Iran have really benefited, compared to having had the opportunities that their parents had to earn a living from a decent paying US job.

That job has been sent to China, not because it had to be, but because that was the most profitable decision for the elite. This elite has become destructive and parasitical. The economy that is run in their interest is sucking the wealth out of the bottom 99.3% of the US population for the benefit of the top 0.7%, give or take a few tenths of a percent. This model of military backed domination has been extended not just to the rest of the world, but to the domestic population as well. Perhaps you are o.k. with that but I am not.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."