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Aside meddle in countries, the US also laid concrete foundations in the fields of statistical mechanics, molecular biology, quantum chemistry, quantum electrodynamics, quantum computing and nanotechnology, invented the transistor (arguably most significant of the 20th century) and made the vast majority of advancements and breakthroughs in human medicine. It mapped the human genome. It has also almost unilaterally owned the realms of space science and exploration in expanding man's knowledge of the earth, solar system, galaxy, universe and our place within it, so I mean...
The usual argument is that America has started more wars than anyone in the past couple of decades. While that may be true, it is also true that America is the only country that is actually in a position to start wars, without getting squashed like a cockroach.
They've wielded their stick relatively responsibly. I wouldn't be as comfortable with China or Russia, or just about anybody, wielding that stick.
Atleast there is a chance to change leadership in America. No such an opportunity in China, or Russia, or Iran, or whoever.
Not that America is without criticism, but I think we need to put things to a perspective here, at times. Russia is an anarchic country ruled by ex-KGB mobsters, China is basically an Orwellian dystopia.
As Veteran pointed out, its just a small but powerful group within America (and most countries in general) who fuck shit up, the people at large are good and productive.
Just like Von Braun advancing rocketry doesnt justifies the nazi political system.
That's undoubtedly on point but I think proper perspective also reveals the American 'empire' as the most comparatively benign there's ever been. Even operating from a position of unassailable power and leverage in laying out the post-war global financial order, did the US impose Pax-Americana? Place imperial tariffs on incomes, trade or property? Occupy key transshipment or distribution nodes? Err, no. The US granted full access to the largest consumer market on the globe and offered to provide full maritime security for all trade at its own cost on the strength of its unprecedented naval superiority. What followed was the greatest expansion of global economic growth and prosperity in human history.
It's as if people have zero perspective when they talk about this shit and it's even worse when it's claimed the US is desperate to maintain the status quo when it actually no longer really serves its interests. People need to understand that any catastrophic 'collapse' of the current system will hit the likes of China and Europe twice as hard as they've pretty much built their entire post-war existence on it. In any top-down global reset, the US possesses a number of unparalleled advantages.
Or are folks forgetting that the United States boasts the largest continuous mass of arable land and largest interconnected network of navigable rivers - largely running through the former - in addition to wide-open access to the world's two largest oceans? geopolitics 101 starts with geography itself. America will see it through better than anyone else, from the very bottom and inevitably right back up to the top.