Kasz216 said:
Yeah, you generally don't become a superpower without fucking over some countries. Though you gotta admit the UK pretty much did the biggest and "best" screwovers, mostly because they got to most places first. The places the US screws over are mostly just places England and Spain already screwed over. |
Just like all the great powers, we've done terrible things, but we've also done a lot of good. Not that one justifies the other, just that it's part-in-parcel of being number one. Particularly in times of past, where morals were perhaps different (talking about the atrocities of the pre-Victorian empire, here).
You're right about it being who got there first, and I have no doubts that if the power base was different then, Asia and Africa would have fucked Europe over just as badly.
