AAAAHH

Sometimes you just gotta shoot yourself in the foot to feel something.

AMerica gaining global influence after WWII: wow look at all this power

SOmebody considering externalities: what u gonna do with it? promote democracy? feed people?

American: kill asian people, kill muslim people, create dictatorships that benefit our corporations, cause mass migration crises, sell a lot of guns all over the world

Somebody considering externalities: man that might come back to bite us

AMerica: nah we’ll always hold all the cards. banking, manufacturing, technology, services