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The classic foreign policy fail that America has followed for more than half a century now is:
* Encourage peace by antagonizing all the countries that disagree with you.
* Fund coups in countries to make them like you, and if they rebel just sanction them.
* Make the other major powers feel you are out to get them, by having a military budget that overwhelmingly overshadows theirs - encouraging an arms race.
* Build military bases that encircle the other major powers, and make them distrust or fear you.
* Show the world how much America values human rights, and set the right example by engaging in torture.
* Invade other countries, cause a big mess, and then distablize the whole Middle East with the consequences.
* Ignore dictators when they are 'our guy' and only condemn dictators that are 'their guy'. Worked great with Saddam, and for the Kurds and Iranians he killed off.
* Support democracy abroad, by deposing democratic governments and replacing them with 'Pro-American' dictatorships.

Overall, these strategies have worked so great they gave us trillions in debt, and a more unstable world

At the end of WW2, America emerged as the worlds first uncontested super power, they blew it. And as the saying goes, " absolute power corrupts absolutely".

meh....we've done ok, especially up until 1992 or so.

Bro do you even know anything about non-U.S foriegn policy.

I mean for one, Russian policy in central/western asia.

Or prehaps Italian foriegn policy in Africa. Talk about chickens coming home to roost.

Sensing some America-centrism up in har.

Russian foreign policy has been flawless. Especially under Putin.

*Hail the strong leader

America is a basically a test to see if the people of the world can get along in one country, and with each other. We still have issues, but probably nothing that can't be overcome if we want it bad enough. One thing that needs work is things we do that are un ethical, but not illegal. Mostly in the world of finance, and that is what its all built on.

Fairing well? The UA is getting slaughtered by most accounts