That America's actually work tip the scales, along with having a military not made of meat grinder slaves and eighty year old Soviet tanks. Plus, you know, a real navy and air force.
And while modern France and peers could indeed no diff the Romans or Victorian Britain, only America and Russia have enough nukes to kill the world (go us!)
You chuckleheads don't even know what the complaint was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
Just ignoring the concept of neocolonialism for a second, most American land was stolen through conquest. That the American Empire is not currently aggressively expanding is irrelevant, did Rome not count as an empire when its borders were stable?
The ability to literally kill all multicellular life on Earth is a good starting point for "powerful"
OP summoned the fuckcars horde
Yeah, bro, I'm sure the dictator with a cadre of all female bodyguards chosen for their looks (who there are individual testimonies of rape from) was on the up and up on consent.
Can't imagine why a Muslim nation that's barely done with a civil war with mass rape used as a tool by all sides isn't teeming with women and men that trust the West to protect them if they testify publicly, even if it they didn't consider it shameful to spreak of it at all.
But, hey, you're right, a socialist utopia's greatest weakness will always be some shitposting foreign spies. Just collapses public support immediately.
Can't possibly be all the rape and execution of dissidents.
Uh huh.
Hey, who killed Gaddafi?
Was it an invading army?
How many NATO boots were on the ground?
Sure seems like a guy who was just building a socialist utopia, no notes, would have to do something pretty wild to prompt all the people getting free college educations and all basic needs guaranteed to try and kill him.
If you want to argue that he was better than the alternative, knock yourself out, but pretending decades of women lied about their victimization is fucking disgusting.
You don't need to lie about his crimes to point out NATO interventionism was purely self interested, that they didn't give a shit about his personal evils compared to his anti-imperialism and that his removal has been a disaster for the Libyan people, but you also don't need to pretend that his personal crimes are balanced out by his socialist reforms either.
Bro, Gaddafi literally had rape rooms in his palace.
Have you guys considered that framing dudes who, by definition, have served their time is wrong regardless?
Don't worry, Eric Prince has a plan to fix that oversight!