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Re:The lessons from America’s astonishing economic record by alex_sf on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:24AM (#35597709)
Is the US somehow unique in history for this?

If the US is simply better at it, isn't that relevant?

It's not like other (former) superpowers didn't do the exact same things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_involvement_in_regime_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Third_World_relations

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Re:The lessons from America’s astonishing economic record by diordiderot on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:56AM (#35597909)
Touché. I suppose inwardly focused benevolent systems wouldn't spread because they wouldn't want overthrow other systems
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Re:The lessons from America’s astonishing economic record by alex_sf on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:38AM (#35601407)
Can a benevolent system be inwardly focused? How benevolent is it to ignore your neighbor?

If we say that it's not a pretend virtue to care about democracy and freedom around the world, then wouldn't it would be a reasonable imperative to interact with the world?

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