The US is, and always has been, a developing nation. What sets it apart from all other developing nations is that it controls the de facto world currency, makin

The US is, and always has been, a developing nation. What sets it apart from all other developing nations is that it controls the de facto world currency, making it a very wealthy developing nation. All of the cultural factors are closer to a third world country, but the wealth is first world, more like Russia than like western Europe.