• steeznson@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Well, I mean they are all fucked up super-powers now. My main point was that there was a period of like 20+ years where the USA literally ruled the world but didn’t do anything with it.

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      2 months ago

      They did plenty with it: they brutally repressed the globe to create unimaginable profit for their ruling class.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, I get you…

      One thing that totally kills me is how the US just *screwed* with so many other nations over the years, mainly for profit, etc.

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        2 months ago

        Same as every super-power in existence ever. Maybe …it’s just a super-power thing?

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      2 months ago

      I am curious on what you mean by ‘didn’t do anything with it’. What should had the USA done in that time?

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        2 months ago

        Reinforce the international order of economic cooperation guided by a rules-based system underpinned by the UN,

        Instead there were just foreign adventures in the Middle East and a lot of navel-gazing internal politics about climate change/denialism. You could have set a template for all countries to follow instead of inventing “rolling coal”.

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          2 months ago

          Billionares, Hollywood, Reagansim, War on Drugs etc. Including the things you said it seems they did a lot actually.