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At the moment? When was there ever a time the US weren’t the bad guys?

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Pretty much all Western countries looked up to the US between 1945 and 2016 (or so).

Presumably, you’re the kind of person who thinks we’ve all been the bad guys the whole time, though. And TBF shit things were done, it’s just that everyone else has been even more shit.

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Pretty much all Western countries looked up to the US between 1945 and 2016 (or so).

Are you sure about that? Pretty much all Western countries see America as a convenient bully.

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As a Westerner not from America (like most of the users in this community), yes, I am sure about that. I didn’t say it was a relationship without conflict, but they helped defeat the Nazis, lead the charge in the Cold War and then were the fulcrum of the new trade-focused world order in the so-called “end of history” period that followed. We all watched American movies the whole time and it’s not because anyone was forcing us.

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Briefly the us was the good guys when we killed a bunch of slavers and then when we killed a bunch of fascists. Those were exceptions to the rule though.

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They were clearly talking about the Union during the Civil War…

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Nobody said the founding fathers killed slavers?

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They also killed the Nazis, except for the ones that were useful, of course.

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I kinda root for them in the war of independence

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