We are already in the World Stage by virtue of having a quarter of earthly humanity in our nation! We should be concerned about making ourselves presentable on the world stage. Rather than committing ourselves to buying expensive overseas technologies we should concentrate on developing our own manufacturing capabilities. Witness we have some very good naval shipyards yet we are paying outrageous amounts to Russia for retrofitting of an aircraft carrier! What could be a worse waste of money? We should just buy a dry dock big enought o hold the aircraft carrier and work on it ourselves. We have to get real. We will never be able to buy the respect of developed nations by purchasing their technology. If we develop technology ourselves then we will be respected.
