Au contraire, it is actually you who is creating a Straw Man. rrggrr doesn't write that the US is perfect, but rather, s/he writes that the US is a "generally benevolent hegemonic power".
It's not benevolent, that's pure propaganda at work. It's a nation that acts in its own interests like any other. It just disguises them extremely well.
It's not benevolent, that's pure propaganda at work. It's a nation that acts in its own interests like any other. It just disguises them extremely well.