it created a global baking system that was subject to US needs first

Never forget the great flour embargo of the late 20th century. Or the yeast fiasco that ensued.

In the wake of WWII, America set up a global system that bent the whole world to its service.

Real footage of FDR and Truman sealing away the world in a single night.

Yes. The US used it's new position as a global leader to leverage itself into a strong position. As I said before this is exactly how you'd expect any country to act.

They helped rebuild Europe, helped establish NATO and the World Bank, the WHO, , and were able to spread US cultural to the globe. Just as any single country would've done. Over the next century they managed to continue developing that same game plan. This genuinely helped stabilize the globe.

The civil rights activists in the US ironically also formulated the blueprint for oppressed people across the world to fight for their civil rights in the era that followed alongside the Nuremberg Trials.

They also leveraged their military might to set up a new type of colonialism in countries like Greece, Guatemala, Korea and Vietnam, among others.

You're desire to continue to paint the US as this big bad creature that only wanted to conquer is genuinely ignorance. I'll repeat what I said, the US acted exactly like I'd expect any other country to act. It is not black and white, it is history which is almost always grey.

But no it's everyone else who's had it too cushy for too long.

Uhh what the fuck are you talking about? When I said this in referring directly to the US being too cushy for too long.

War and petroleum, the two remaining pillars of American economic might.

We used to manufacture things, until the capital class realized we can sell off that productive capacity to developing nations, nations that don’t protect worker’s rights, to the lowest bidder. Even the weapons we manufacture here are sourced from parts in Asia.

So whole proposal is fucking stupid. Why would China buy weapons from the USA at a premium, when they could just manufacture weapons themselves? They have the parts and raw materials right there.

IDGAF if I can buy a mountain of cheap Amazon products and keep it all in my storage unit, right? Wash my triple cheeseburger down with not one, but two American Dews? Drive my massively oversized coal-rolling truck that gets 5 miles per gallon?