Personally, the USA has done nothing to me. I am in Germany and live a good life. The USA is simply so violent in terms of foreign policy that there is no comparison: Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq again. Assassinations of foreign heads of government, enemies of the state symbolically thrown into the sea from a helicopter. And all this with an unbelievably self-righteous conviction that they themselves are "the good guys". This strange view that the world is some kind of wilderness that needs to be civilized by a strong hand is completely baffling to me. Oh yes, one personal thing comes to mind: I have family in Cuba who have suffered massively under the US trade embargo for 65 years. "Communism evil!" Meanwhile, in the US, there are cities with 40,000 or 50,000 or 60,000 homeless people and people going bankrupt because of medical bills. Makes me wonder which side of that distinction lacks civilization.

I realize that other countries act similarly in terms of foreign policy when they can. Germany hasn't exactly covered itself in glory either. I'm not just referring to the Nazi era. But I am not at all as pessimistic about the multipolar future that probably lies ahead of us as some others are.