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I can't think of another great power I'd rather had won World War 2. Even those countries it defeated were prosperous in a couple of decades. Contrast that with how France treated Germany after World War 1 or how the Russians subjugated eastern Europe. Not to mention what would have happened if Germany had won.

Still, the drug war has been a huge waste of energy. It enriches some very evil people. And actually makes these drugs much more dangerous, as potency is all over the map as a result of it being illegal.




Are you specifically excluding the last few decades from your evaluation of the negative impact that the USA foreign policy has had on humanity?


Still, if any other power has won, the effects would be much worse.


Iā€™m not sure we would know that. I think I agree, but foreign policy has too many variables for such a simplistic revision




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