In no way is the US benevolent. It acts in it's own best interests as any other country does or has done. Sometimes those interests align and countries work to

In no way is the US benevolent. It acts in it's own best interests as any other country does or has done. Sometimes those interests align and countries work together, as it is now in most of the western world. It's also in US interests to maintain military bases in Europe and the Middle East and Asia since two of the worst wars the world has ever seen utterly annihilated those regions and led to the countries there being in no fit state to do it themselves. It also gives them footholds all over the world for the purposes of expanding territory. Other countries have done this, the US does this, other countries will do it in the future. The US is far from the worst country out there but let's not start throwing around the word 'benevolent' because it's profoundly untrue. Being the best of a bad bunch does not make you somehow good.