America has less than 5 percent of the current global population. Counting only Europe, China, and India, America has less than 15% of the current relevant population. We WILL NOT be able to impose our will on the rest of the world, and the pain we suffer will be in direct proportion to the attempts we make to achieve dominance.
It's time to gather our allies and understand what we can and cannot do.
A schoolyard bully is a standard American trope. And American fiction is rife with the downfall of bullies... those who dominate for a while but are eventually rendered irrelevant.
Can't we use this to educate people?