my take is that perhaps we can criticize the united states for its ethical and moral failings WITHOUT needing to fall back on a tired argument where it is singularly responsible for the actions of other nations and other world leaders, as tho its purpose in society is to be both the ethical rule and the peacekeeper/enforcer of geopolitical events and the rest of the world is but a current or potential colony that gets a bit unruly sometimes, sometimes with permission and sometimes without