Or the humanitarian missions delivering food or supplies sometimes. Most of the time it's sit around and look threatening enough that trade is protected. That's not really a defense, it's ultimately a tool protecting American capital and propping up a failing system, just saying that most of the expense doesn't go to murdering brown people.

Most of the time it’s sit around and look threatening enough that trade is protected.

What? where would that be?

And in no way that is protecting trade the biggest part of their horrible activities.
Unless it's drug trade like cocaine in the contra scandal or heroin from Afghanistan.