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> Very quickly and for no clear reason, America is saying FU to all these people This is not something new, just more evident nowadays. Things that USA has do
by ASalazarMX 2y ago
> Very quickly and for no clear reason, America is saying FU to all these people
This is not something new, just more evident nowadays.
Things that USA has done for decades that have alienated other countries:
- Always has been at war, preferably asymmetrical, brutal wars for profit while claiming democracy and freedom.
- Many Americans are ethnocentric, ignoring much of the world outside their country. For example, its national baseball cup is still called the "World" Series? Or ask any American abroad which country they are from, and most will name their state.
- Not so ethnocentric Americans usually choose to do tourism abroad, and those are the ones most people in the world encounter. Obnoxious American tourists are a minority, but they're the most memorable, unfortunately forming the stereotype.
- Has appropriated the "America" name from the whole continent. United States of North America would be its proper name. Gulf of USA is small compared to that.
- Remember "Manifest Destiny"? It's still alive, just frequently changes names.
I could go on and on. I don't deny the blooming of USA after WW II was beautiful, bringing hope to a ravaged world, it seemed like everything it did was awesome. Unfortunately, it was superficial, and its flaws have become more evident as the luster vanishes. USA needs a whole makeover, right down from its constitution to their electoral system, and up to the international arena, to materialize the promise that it showed before.
- marcuschong 2y agoI'd add that several of the wars and coups the U.S. took part in, especially during the Cold War, can be better understood in light of Soviet expansionism - after all, the USSR was effectively invading other nations. For example, when people say “the U.S. created the Taliban,” it was primarily about countering Soviet forces in yet another country they were encroaching upon.
- tim333 2y agoWhich still goes on with the Kremlin pulling the same shit, just with a renamed empire.