No job Indian media <| sep |> I feel like a lot of the people here grew up in the 2000 s , in a world that has always had the Internet and 24 hour news , where there is always a cynic somewhere being given equal time in the name of balance . But when I was a kid in the UK in the 90 s we absolutely considered the US the greatest country in the world and the bulwark of liberal democracy . I mean , I feel that there are plenty of facts that objectively prove that it was . For one , the USA totally saved the world from fascism in the second world war . And saved the world from totalitarian socialism after presiding over the fall of commubism , all without triggering a nuclear war . And that was just 25 years ago . In countless other conflicts like Korea and Bosnia , the US absolutely leveraged it ' s military to successfully defend liberal democracy . I absolutely believe that , while Vietnam , Afghanistan and Iraq were all disasters , they were absolutely done for the right reasons . The fact is while the world has it ' s problems , none of us has any idea what a modern world without American hegemony looks like . And there ' s nothing stopping it from being terrible . The roman empire was a real mess at the end too , but it ' s fall was still followed by the dark ages .