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> The United States didn't do enough to help Russia transition to democracy in the 1990s.

Some how people manage to blame everything on the United States.

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If you wanna act like a superpower, then you're going to get judged like a superpower.

Wry and karmic, but nevertheless an unrealistic expectation.

The US manages to meddle and create problems all over the world.

A small part of the US footprint:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Ah yes, the world was such a utopia before the US.

That doesn't invalidate the point that the US has created incredible amounts of instability around the world.

Actually the British are more to blame for that, as they are the ones who deliberately drew the borders of modern middle east with the explicit goal to cause maximum instability.

Yes they are, but we overthrew a government from half of the Latin American countries in the same time period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Why step into a conversation as if everybody else is arguing that there's heaven on earth? Are you going to ask people if they love Saddam next?

> The US manages to meddle and create problems all over the world.

Huh? The OP is accusing the US of NOT meddling. Talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't.

The US meddled, and it did a lot. The OP is saying the US meddled wrong and could have meddled beneficially. If the US had decided not to meddle in the USSRs affairs, the world would have gone quite differently.

> The OP is saying the US meddled wrong and could have meddled beneficially.

How are you getting that from the Original Post? The Original Post only mentions what the US didn't do, not what it did do.

That's because of the shared historical context of the US having meddled, isn't it?

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