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Every nation strives to protect its own first and foremost (obviously there are exceptions where the leaders were bad or their interests diverged too much but in general it holds). People are valuable. Every institution in the US runs on them and their productive output.

What benefit does your continued existence, or some random farmer in India, or some random taxi driver in Chile confer the US vs some overweight middle manager who pays fat taxes on his 200k income and does his part to keep a local liquor store in business?

It might not pass western morals but the game theory side seems pretty obvious to me.