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by nikdaheratik 3193 days ago
So you want to argue that America shouldn't exist in a just world, but what exactly would be in its place?

I don't think we'd likely have a single continent spanning country ran by the many different nations that were there before. It'd be much more likely that colonialism that divided Africa and South America would be passed around North America, and there wouldn't have been any country to balance the European powers that continually fought each other in the 20th century or for Russia, Japan and China in the second half of that century.

You can acknowledge the wrongs that America took, but you also have to accept that it's mostly been a force for good, even today.