> repeatedly on the wrong side of history Also repeatedly on the right side of history. It's really intellectually dishonest to ignore one over the other. > t

> repeatedly on the wrong side of history Also repeatedly on the right side of history. It's really intellectually dishonest to ignore one over the other. > they cannot even face that I don't know who "they" are, but Americans are extremely self critical -- just look at this thread. It's also certainly the only of three global superpowers where citizens can be (and are) openly critical of their country's policies. > Red scare I'm sorry, have you ever lived in a communist country? > Supporting neo-liberal-to-fascist govts Yeah pretty much any time a country is a global superpower / police, it's going to make mistakes. But also, many governments the US has supported historically have had broad popular support on the ground, too, and the governments overthrown have been oppressive regimes. The regimes that take their place may often have also been oppressive, but that's not known without the benefit of hindsight. (Also there are legitimate victories in this camp too. Just ask any resident of South Korea.) I could keep going, but it seems like your main beef with the US is that it operates like a global superpower pursuing its own domestic and international policy. I don't know what you think the world would look like under another superpower like China or Russia, but given the treatment of those countries _towards their own citizens_ in Chechnya, Crimea*, Uyghur Xinjiang, and Tibet, it's hard to imagine your or my life would be much better off under those global regimes. I also challenge you to find a global superpower in world history that has yielded a more unshakeable global peace for almost a century.