At least some of these expectations are logically contradictory. And people in the U.S. might simply not realize how recent and historically-contingent "US glob

At least some of these expectations are logically contradictory. And people in the U.S. might simply not realize how recent and historically-contingent "US global hegemony" really is. Prior to the commonly-acknowledged beginning of the US-URSS Cold War, the closest thing to a "global hegemony" were the UK - which had only just about shed outright political control of their former empire, "on which the sun never sets"!