Eh, it’s a tricky question when indulgence becomes over-indelgence. The USA inherited a world where colonial exploitation, brutality, and genocide were the acc

Eh, it’s a tricky question when indulgence becomes over-indelgence. The USA inherited a world where colonial exploitation, brutality, and genocide were the accepted norm. In fact, like all adolescents raised by abusive parents, the USA took it out on someone even less able to defend themselves. With that said, the type checker is going to say that we’re going to compare like with like, and as utterly dominant hegemonic global superpowers go, the USA isn’t really pushing the scoreboard on innocent lives taken or ruined. The Empire or the USSR or the Mongols would be embarrassed if they had a weekend when they failed to genocide more people than the USA ever has. It’s a sad defense to be less evil, but if there’s ever been a world-spanning empire that didn’t slaughter innocents in job lots, I’ve never heard of it. Heavy lies the head that wears the crown, as the CCP is about to re-learn. When it’s your job to carry global stability on your back, you might unwind with an over-indulgence in some OPEC output. For better or worse, this is pretty much the PRC’s problem now, and I for one am looking forward to a world where being American doesn’t make one a priori complicit in the fucking Raj.