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Unless you’re high up in one of the MIC companies I need to disagree.
Who’s the “we”? Countries on the receiving end of “foreign ‘aid’”? Americans receiving improvements to their standards and quality of life because government expenditures are made on infrastructure and services instead of warring?
Wasn’t 1.6B just approved to fund anti-CN disinformation/propaganda?
I guess if a large part of the world’s population, domestic and international, doesn’t fall within your definition of “we” then sure.
Countries that are just awful to be in have always existed. I'm willing to bet that a smaller percent of humans are in misery today than ever in history.
Thoughts?
The British could have said the same to Americans a couple hundred years ago and that was also true. It wasn't enough to stop the American revolution tho.
You've now changed the topic from what was originally discussed to something different. Was that your intention? Or am I missing something about the argument?
If someone (like you) had convinced the US that the Pax Inglesa was good enough, no Pax Americana would exist. What is to say is that let's say, the Pax Chinesa, could be better and more prosperous than the Pax Americana so we should not be afraid of ditching the US in favor of alternatives.
Right from the american independence, it was obvious to the whole world that american model is more free and democratic than british. Revolutionaries all around the world, in France, in Haiti, in South America (both Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin) held the new USA as a model to follow.
Can anyone say that about China? Well, of course, somebody can — there are influencers who try to sell China and Russia as a better alternative to the western world. But expect to be taken as seriously as these influences then.
The Marshall plan was so long ago (and didn't benefit my country, Brazil). Current US doesn't like to share (besides spending a lot of money to protect Western Europe and parts of Asia). It is no surprise most countries are looking for alternatives.
So yeah, there sounds a lot better. No walls to stop friends from coming, or you from leaving if you happen to not like it.
Just because we lack imagination doesn't mean a better world can't exist and didn't exist somewhere in the past.
Sounds like they probably regretted not building walls.
The point is that the average person is better off today than they were any time in the past by many metrics, e.g. life expectancy, quality of life or access to healthcare.
Nobody said the status quo doesn't need to be changed, only that we should appreciate the pax americana despite its faults.