They get overrun by the local threats the USA may have been able to help with? I mean, there’s obviously nuance here, but you aren’t using it either so

Yeah when we ask the government of that place, and they say yes, we should then feel free to do that.

What short sighted idiots. Chopping down a tree to steal the fruit? Our species is its own Great Filter.

I’m out of the loop. I know he’s seen as cantankerous but did he say or do something actually bad?

Who does that help?

Edit: Yes, I see.

Edit 2: Ah jeez.

It’s exhausting having Europeans assume that because I live here I A) endorse everything about it with every fiber of my being and B) have no ability to conceptualize any other way of living at all, much less a better one than my current American lifestyle.

It’s true we don’t have a quaint medieval village on an island, but we never had invading Huns or something force us to live on a postage stamp of land and make a quaint little village there.