In relation to your mentioning Trumps economy sadly he inherited most of what we see today but  I am a bit confused about Trump wanting to increase Military spending and on top of that it is said that he has asked other countries to do the same.  I don't understand why he would not opt to spend dollars on improving our crumbling infrastructure, It would create a lot of jobs and small business would pop up to support these infrastructure projects. Projects like these would be excellent for the country I think. 

Why increase Military? Trump said he wants our military to stop being the world police so I am confused by this.  Here is a piece in the NYT (which has caught being fake) stating Trump wants to put 54 Billion dollars into military -this is a staggering amount, where will he get this from and how will this effect Americans who for the most part are choosing between food and car insurance?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/us/politics/trump-budget-military.html  

https://ktxs.com/news/nation-world/trump-says-nato-members-have-agreed-to-spending-increases-07-12-2018

 I fear these decisions would lean toward Israel who has a different type of globalist agenda. I fear this because of Israel's latest behavior after the request for Iran to leave Syria I hope I am wrong on this score. 

 Further about the economy, I am also confused about NATO's  future, it was created to keep Russia in line, then the wall went down, it was again propped up by the War on Terror for the past 17 years, now that the USA has lost the Middle East and Trump is making friends with Russia,  what will NATO's function be? What is Trump's reason for strengthening  Militaries? My husband is a SQUID so I am not thinking about these  questions from an arm chair position.