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skit herre posted:Doesn't matter how far left they are or how many grievances they have with their country and it's politics, "America is the greatest country in the world" is just an unshakable truth in their mind. Most of this is just garden variety nationalism, combined with the relative international isolation of most Americans. Part of it, at least for me (US goon), is that I can't help but roll my eyes a little when people from large and historically powerful European countries get sanctimonious while making critical comparisons between the US and their homeland on matters of foreign policy, military, politics, etc. It's like, the rise of US power, for all its myriad and accelerating faults, has coincided with what is indisputably a profound decrease in the overall incidence and severity of wars and conflict throughout the world, and a long period of steadily increasing global prosperity. At minimum, its been awhile since 40 loving million people died in a war. This follows the preceding several hundred years where the global seat(s) of power were concentrated here or there in this European empire or that. And when it was their turn they spent like 200% of their time making GBS threads the bed, repeatedly, with ever fouler and wetter shits until by sheer providence they all managed to poo poo together in such a spectacular, total, and correlated way that it doomed any prospects of a dominant Europe for at least a century. Only after being stripped of any semblance of global power, and being put in a geopolitical terrarium largely engineered by the US, do these countries finally become their modern benign selves. And then some guy from Germany (lmbo) is all "you savages spend so much of your GDP on the military!!"
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