I wish the people from the USA here would understand: When the rest of the West is angry at the USA, it's not the people, no one is "jealous of your freedom" or whatever nonsense Fox or CNN might tell you, it's the government, if you think they're harsh on you, you do have not the slightest idea of what the glowies are doing, especially to their supposed allies.

I'd hate to say it, but this is a very anglo problem with an anglo mindset. The English are... sigh.... were a people that happened to be supremacist, parochial, but then also the leaders of a world spanning Empire. As such, the British Empire was prepared to commit atrocities while rationalizing it for the good of England. I still see this attitude even among the LotusEaters staff who don't realize just how much brutality the British were prepared to engage in.

I'll still give them credit though: if you had to live under the rule of an empire, you'd choose the British one in a heart-beat. They just don't quite understand that standing against the British Empire meant you, your families, your neighbors, and your children were going to die, or be otherwise enslaved. Anglicization did have positive effects, but it doesn't make the ethnic cleansings and cultural pogroms any less awful.

Americans, unfortunately, inherited this because we wanted to be the "anglos in the woods" that certain English philosophers talk about. We also wanted to be a republic, but we took all of the English supremacism, and made it nearly unrestricted on ourselves. Due to the sheer power of the US, our elites have taken this golden opportunity to create an American empire that can strangle the world. Unlike the British, we don't even really help people develop. We are a Liberal empire, and we try to subvert and destroy things we don't like, hoping that the "universal values of liberalism" just ... happen. There is no intentional process of Americanization, like Anglicanization. American culture is just kind of subversive and overwhelming.

The American people have no real knowledge of any of this, because why would they? They don't want an empire, they don't hate their country, and they do want to believe that someone can come to America and ask us to kick a bad guy's ass for them. But it's never so simple, and by ignoring it, our Empire of Columbia has run rampant.

It's strange, but it's true that the first real threat to the Empire of Columbia in well over 100 years is the MAGA movement, which genuinely wants to reduce it's footprint, and is recognizing that the Empire of Columbia, is occupying the United States; in the same way that the British Empire is currently occupying England.