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Probably taking the bait/or this isn't intended to be totally srs topic but...

>Up until 2001 I'd say?
I mean, that really depends on how you view America's actions before they started becoming an international player around the turn of the 20th century. Or how you judge America based on current international laws and if you choose to apply that to the past. Does the whole Manifest Destiny thing of killing the natives and taking their land make them a good guy? And if that doesn't count since it was fought on land they claimed, what about invading the recently liberated Philippines to make them a territory? That too came with the rhetoric of needing to "civilize" the population. Later, during WW1, German speakers were harassed, antagonized, even outed for speaking on the telephone in German. The same happened to French speakers in Louisiana, only without the justification of being at war with the tongue's mother country. And that's just the stuff that has to do with nationalism and international politics, you already know how it goes with the slavery and lynching of blacks and whatnot.
We could really go on, but America's present is more consistent with their past two centuries ago. A cynical take, but maybe the US is actually returning to its natural behavior and the period between WW1 and the end of the Cold War was an err - a brief lapse in foreign policy. ┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌

I think it's foolish to blindly trust in a nation state with international reach and assume it will always be "good" - maybe a smaller country like Georgia or Nepal will be more predictable but they don't have the same global standing as the US does.

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