@Sine_Fine_Belli to World [email protected] • 1 month agoThe End of American Exceptionalismwww.foreignaffairs.comexternal-linkmessage-square30arrow-up1135arrow-down18cross-posted to: newspolitics
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minus-squareCrislinkEnglish28•1 month 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-square@Meltraxlink16•1 month agoWe are not just like Russia. We aren’t exceptional though, you got that right. America hasn’t been exceptional in decades.
minus-squareEm Adespotonlinkfedilink19•1 month 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.