Preferred foreign policy?

[Person Man]

Let's look at what works and what doesn't. Neoconservatism sounded great until W totally bungled Iraq and Afghanistan and showed them to be a waste of time. $2 trillion dollars literally set on fire, 6000 dead soldiers, a million dead terrorists and civilians,  and the people in those countries still don't respect us.  Nationalism, like or not, is putting millions of lives and livelihoods in danger. I believe that the inflation started to increase before the pandemic because of Trump's trade wars. The war in Ukraine could have been avoided if we avoided an "America Alone" concept. Libertarian-based neoliberalism has not improved the civic lives of the people in authoritarian regimes and has only caused dictators to gain undue influence over the economies and governments of more liberal countries. Realism, whether or not you agree with the way Kissinger dealt with Vietnam,  could only predict 1 of 4 of the major crises/opportunities of the last 30 years.  

I don't think #2 will work. It sounds like the simplest option up there, but you can't deal with the world at arms length in a time where we don't know what's going to happen with the environment, technology, or even demography. Let alone the fact there are at least a dozen of world leaders who want to be the next Hitler.

I'm going with 5 here. Playing nice doesn't work. Going at it alone doesn't work. Being afraid of bullies because they have more guns doesn't work. Bribing people into being good doesn't work.  It's that simple.

I'd prefer 1 after watching the History Channel for a few years(back when it was the Hitler Channel) after being teased for being too old to watch cartoons when I was 13.

However, after 9/11, Iraq, Syria and the commies and racists that stopped us from helping, Trump, the Pandemic, the general assholery of China and Russia and how big of a let down free trade has been, yeah. I'm going with 5. We have to be tough on predators, whether at home or abroad. Not for our sake, but for everyone's sake.