Inb4 "always was"

This is different and you damn well know it.

Having spent a good deal of my career tracking malign foreign actors who undermine democracy around the world and coming up with strategies to defend against them, this was a rude reality check. I had to ask myself: “Wait, are we the bad guys?”

Yes. Next question.

It's been getting exponentially worse since Nixon

If you listen to this (yeah i know, its an hour long) you’ll start to understand why AI is such a threat. If the americans give AI personhood, like it did for corporations, then AI without human intervention will be deciding your job, your health insurance claim or your pension entitlements. Furthermore the algorithms that feed on emotions like hate will drive humans into smaller and smaller tribes of like emotion. That will be the end of countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qIfC-fsxgM

Always have been

Only because the chuds in chief thought 'soft power' sounded to feminine.

"most" ???
Are there really any exceptions? USA is a malign actor for USA!!

While many may be tempted to cut the U.S. off as an ally and partner

At this point I think it's more a matter of keeping your friends close, and your enemies closer

so easily

Easily? Really? At least for Europe it's the opposite: we did everything and more to not give up on the country that rebuilt our economies and brought us democracy after WWII