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No even for other societies, it would be far worse if American politicians felt no imperative (moral, political, economic, or otherwise) to not behave like raving lunatics.

This is of course what we're seeing today, where Trump is just discovering his taste for utilizing American military power to achieve his whims.

Hopefully we get bogged down in Iran enough not to continue, but obviously as soon as we started the Iran conflict, the GOP was already talking about "Cuba's next" etc, which is obviously the start of an infinitely long list of places to "liberate."

This situation is far worse for everyone than the one where the US is mostly benign (despite mistakes) relative to its incredible power.