Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.ml · 27 days agoThe End of American Exceptionalismwww.foreignaffairs.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1104arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1100arrow-down1external-linkThe End of American Exceptionalismwww.foreignaffairs.comSine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.ml · 27 days agomessage-square23fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareHobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down6·27 days agoThey aren’t exceptional. They’re just like Russia.
minus-squareCris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·27 days 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-squareMeltrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down3·27 days agoWe are not just like Russia. We aren’t exceptional though, you got that right. America hasn’t been exceptional in decades.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down6·27 days agoGiven that Russia has a competent government and isn’t on a verge of a civil war, not sure in what way America is like Russia.
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.
Given that Russia has a competent government and isn’t on a verge of a civil war, not sure in what way America is like Russia.