Huh. Seeing narcissists as narsissists.
Study: The World Sees Americans as Disorder-Level Narcissists
Yes and while that narcissism has always been there, and was certainly cemented after WW2, it has now mutated into a toxic form of narcissistic individualism which not only threatens to destroy what respect there has been internationally for America, but now also to fracture the US into a failed authoritarian state.
They were fine with it so long as we were "leading" with bases that propped up their economies.
You think US basis propped up foreign economies? Hardly, and anyway the American military Empire was not establish out of the goodness of their hearts. How naive do you think we in the rest of the world are?
@David1955 You don't get me, Dave, and we've established that the discussion isn't worth the attempt to change that. America has no goodness or heart, dude. I'm on record with that. We established bases to make money in their economies and hold power in their governments. Those bases, one on which I served our nation, did prop up economies as well. Yes.
Would propping up their economies include taking oil (unmetered) from Iraq? Would it include bombing the hell out of a country and then selling contracts to rebuild the infrastructure of that country?
See George Galloway Senate Testimony