Re your concerns about US global domination

Come on now, enough with the hyperbole. The US has been a superpower for 60 years, the beginning of which was marked with rebuilding Europe and Japan insead of enjoying the spoils of war, then turned to creating international organizations like NATO and the UN as a response to Soviet expansion, and then worked to clean up hotspots like Yugoslavia, Kuwait, and Bosnia.

I can't say I approve every US action in that span of time (particularly in South America and Southeast Asia), but the basis of comparison is the Europeans. This is a group of people who, when they had the power to, raped and pillaged the rest of the planet for 500 years, before just about destroying themselves in two wars. Now suddenly they're the moral compass for the rest of the planet?

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European hegemony  was a long time ago. Europe then is so different from Europe today that your comparison is not only invalid, but laughable.

In the same vein, blaming America for its past sins is stupid. I'll agree with you that some people are way too concerned about US domination, but we haven't really had a situation like this one before. The US is not only a superpower, but the only superpower these days. That scares some people, mostly because they have way too much respect for their own countries' pasts, traditions and culture.