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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I dunno Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, seem to have been personally good people. That's two recent US presidents. Then I guess I would add some super low hanging fruit like Nelson Mandela, Frederick the Great, John II Komnenos, any of the Five Good Emperors, Cyrus the Great, Ashoka, and one could keep going.

EDIT: To all those pestering me about how US presidents presided over criminal imperialist policies, here is my answer from down below:

OP talked about “glaring character defects”.

These are policy failures and state crimes, arguably attributed to the American state as a whole, and the long term US imperialist policies, rather to the singular person of the president.

You might have noticed that I added Frederick the Great in the list, which tells you exactly what my understanding of the challenge was.

I'm not here to defend US imperialism, don't @ me.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Without the US, the world would be much more peaceful today, most of the current wars and terrorisms are caused by US interventions, directly and indirectly.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s a claim I would LOVE for you to attempt to back up.

Just off the top of my head I would suspect UK, French, and Soviet imperialism to have been as big if not a bigger factor than the USA.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Just count military bases burgerbrain