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US foreign (and to a certain extent, domestic) policy since WW2 has always needed a great enemy to oppose.
It’s older than that. Before WW2, it was the savage Indian that needed to be defeated.
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Yeah, I agree. One could very easily argue that Manifest Destiny, the Monroe Doctrine, and Jingoism towards Spain were all manifestations of this phenomenon.
I only picked WW2 because the relatively isolationist period leading up to the war were kind of an exception to the trend.
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Oh you weren’t wrong to start WW2, I just wanted to point out that racism is baked into this countries bones.
