America Catfished the World

You know, it's like those rich people living these, you know, luxurious lives, but they're not really rich. They're just living on credit. That's America. They've been able to keep a sort of a running tab with the rest of the world, with everyone believing that The US was good for it, they would make it right, that all these outstanding debts that they accrued in terms of their violence and their bullying and their oppression and their exploitation, their toppling of governments, their wars, their neoliberalism and so on. For a long time, people were willing to have a blind faith that somehow America would settle all those debts with the world based off of that mystique that they had created.

But just like the victim of a romance scam, it's gradually settled in that it was all lies, that it was bait and switch from the beginning. America catfished the world, and we know it now, and we can't unknow it. So everyone is moving on. The game is over. It's the consequences stage now.