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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Colonialism is a word without objective meaning.

But you're saying that "any occupying government" is an example of colonialism? So then, in the case of the North African countries occupied by European powers in the recent centuries...

Napoleon occupied Egypt; is that colonialism? Yet the people who were running Egypt before Napoleon conquered it were the descendants of the Muslim empire which stormed across North Africa in earlier centuries. Were they colonialists?

So, in your wildest dreams, who should Egypt be governed by? Who is the non-colonial hereditary owners of Egypt?