Quote (MadMan87 @ Dec 4 2024 11:07am)
I think the USA takes it but also takes the spot of “most necessary evil”. I think the USA is as tolerated as it is for 2 reasons:
1. So much of the world relies on the USA’s greedy spending.
2. The US military can still be a major nuisance for anyone.
Lol you think that’s why? It’s not because they ended thousands of years of war in Europe and ended expansionist European colonialism by constantly occupying the entire continent for the past 80 years, or because they spend hundreds of billions a year to protect the entire world’s shipping lanes, which ushered in(and maintains) the greatest golden age of prosperity in human history for the entire world?
Without America, there would be no modern first world countries. “Tolerated evil” heh, America is literally the greatest force for good that has ever existed on this planet.
That’s not to say that there aren’t faults in the system or that it couldn’t be better. America is better morally than any country that has ever had even a tiny fraction of it’s power tho.