I’m used to thinking of America as a net good. They have a balanced, if clunky system, and are formally in favour of peace and biased to liberty. Even when their foreign policy actions have been poor, such as the various regime-change wars of the last few decades, they have at least been the lesser evil; Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was reprehensible, but the Taliban was still the most culpable party in what eventuated.
Yet how far is the West away from simply being the bad guys?
Read the full article here at Spectator’s Flat White blog here.