[hulitu]

> it wouldn't be calling their leaders drug lords, cutting off foreign aid, engaging in extrajudicial killings off their shores, threatening them with carrier groups, violating previously agreed-upon trade deals, etc.

The world policeman is doing world policeman things. Luckily things are starting to get worse for the world policeman so those things might happen less.

[estearum]

> The world policeman is doing world policeman things

Actually a lot of this is extremely aberrational, even measured by the United States' own "unique" standards.

[actionfromafar]

Why would it happen less? Empires don't go down in peace. The dying Soviet empire morphed into the incredibly violent, dying Russian empire under Putin.