I got the idea for this post from the comments I often hear on li.ru, such as the comment by flat-out.

The idea is this – USA is stripping the world of resources, bullying everyone around, trying to enrich itself, while everyone else suffers and that’s why the world is such a bad place.

Now let’s take a look at the world, shall we? We’d like to think that we live in a world where people truly care about each other, willing sharing their resources with and other things they own with one another. We’d like to think that, but that’s simply not true!

When is the last time Saudi Arabia said to a poor African country – you know what, guys, I know you don’t have the money, but go ahead and take our oil – here, we know you need it? Or Russia said to Chechnya, we’ve been fighting for a while, and even though it’s our territory and it’s important for us to have access to the oil in the region – go ahead and separate, that’s ok, we’ll manage?

The truth is every country is looking only for their own best interest at heart, they care about their own people, and they want to make their life better for their own people, and when it comes down to it, they really don’t care about anyone else. That’s how the world is now.

Imagine the world as a playground with each country being a child in that playground.

Now imagine you’re the toughest, strongest kid on the block, everyone either respects you or fears you. You’ve got the power and most of the goodies, and most of the other kids hate you for it. They would like to have the same kind of power and goodies, but to get it they have to go through you and they are afraid, because they know they are not strong enough. They can’t really get together and beat you up because they don’t really like each other either; the only thing they really care about is their own interests.

They want the same power and goodies, but the problem is they do not want to share it with anyone else.

Now, if you are that toughest kid on the block and you want to keep that power and goodies for yourself and keep the other kids in line you have two choices:

1. Wait until someone gets strong enough and gets enough courage to challenge you and then fight them. OR
2. Every once in a while show off your strength and beat up a kid that you really don’t like to show the other kids you’re still the toughest and the strongest.

If you wait until they challenge you, you’ll most likely be in a very serious fight, since the kid is probably have been getting ready for a while to take you on. And even if you win – it will not come easy, you’ll have a few bruises for sure.

Now, if you don’t wait and just pick on the kid that has been making a lot of noise and beat him up, the fight will be much easier and your losses will be a lot less.

Now of course in a perfect world there is a third choice – where everyone’s equal, there is no strongest, no weakest kids, everyone’s sharing, living in total peace, holding hands singing happy songs – but we haven’t gotten there yet.

So to sum up my points, USA as the toughest and strongest kid on the block is doing exactly what everyone else is doing – Looking out for THEIR OWN best interests and making life better for THEIR OWN people.

The difference between USA and the rest of the world is that USA is doing it better than anyone else, and that’s why USA has all the stuff and that’s why most other countries hate the US.