Excuse my poor history knowledge, but the Europeans sailed here to find new lands, settled, and then after generations, they were overthrown by their descendants. The British empire still ruled around the world for centuries yet, the U.S. arguably is in a better state of economics, military, and such.
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Before WW1. They stole lands from the natives, slavery, didn’t keep their promises made to them, exploiting other nations, aggressive foreign policy.
After WW2 . Being the only western nation that didn’t get it’s whole industrial sector and cities reduced to rubble helped. USA used to be the factory of the world. Now thanks to that they are the financial centre of the world.
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