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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Local government is a relative term. The Japanese displaced the Ainu to form their nation, yet the American occupation of Japan after WW2 is often called colonialism. Most inhabitants of North Africa are ethnically Middle-Eastern, yet it's often called colonialism when Europeans have occupied those countries.

The truth is, if you go back far enough, all land was taken from someone. The epithet of colonialism presupposes something obviously false to any rational person: eternal nationhood.

Everything had a beginning. Objecting to colonialism is silly; object to acquiring land through war if you like. There's an argument in that somewhere... but colonialism is just a meaningless buzz-word like terrorism or extremist.