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What about the contrarian view that the Pax Americana has brought the greatest era of peace, wealth and standard of living to the world?

That's going to come with a big side order of "citation needed". To Americans? Yeah, arguably. "To the world"? Eh, there are a lot of non-Americans that might take issue. We can start with polls in Central America and the Middle East.

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Then do polls in South Korea.

And then if you figure since you're in the neighborhood, why not poll older folks in Vietnam? After a while, one might see where I'm going with this. And if you need a hint: on balance, I'm not convinced of the claim.

Polls of older people in Vietnam might reflect some survivor bias. The communists weren't very gentle to regime opponents.

Apparently they weren't gentle to ethnic Chinese either, I have met many that were forced to flee in boats to avoid pogroms.

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