Sine_Fine_Belli to World News@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoThe End of American Exceptionalismwww.foreignaffairs.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1135arrow-down18cross-posted to: newspolitics
arrow-up1127arrow-down1external-linkThe End of American Exceptionalismwww.foreignaffairs.comSine_Fine_Belli to World News@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square29linkfedilinkcross-posted to: newspolitics
minus-squareHobbes_Dentlinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down6·11 months agoThey aren’t exceptional. They’re just like Russia.
minus-squareCrislinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·11 months agoI’d argue we’re a lot more like the British empire in their glory days- exporting authoritarianism, subjugation, and hate globally, for as long as it serves our material benefit. We learned from the best 🤷♂️
minus-squareMeltraxlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down4·11 months agoWe are not just like Russia. We aren’t exceptional though, you got that right. America hasn’t been exceptional in decades.
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up19·11 months agoOh, it has… just not in the ways anyone would desire to be considered exceptional.
They aren’t exceptional. They’re just like Russia.
I’d argue we’re a lot more like the British empire in their glory days- exporting authoritarianism, subjugation, and hate globally, for as long as it serves our material benefit.
We learned from the best 🤷♂️
We are not just like Russia.
We aren’t exceptional though, you got that right. America hasn’t been exceptional in decades.
Oh, it has… just not in the ways anyone would desire to be considered exceptional.