I get what you’re saying, but the greatness I’m speaking of refers to geopolitical and economic greatness, and I hold no illusions that it is wholesome.
To literally answer your question, USA as a superpower came to be following the Second World War, more or less.
I get it. Under the harsh control of fathers who beat their wives(considered perfectly acceptable in society) while taking advantage of black and Chinese laborers and pursuing coverups to further the chemical industry at the expense of its citizen’s health, we should all be ecstatic to fall from that tanted and corrupt “greatness”.
I get what you’re saying, but the greatness I’m speaking of refers to geopolitical and economic greatness, and I hold no illusions that it is wholesome.
To literally answer your question, USA as a superpower came to be following the Second World War, more or less.
I get it. Under the harsh control of fathers who beat their wives(considered perfectly acceptable in society) while taking advantage of black and Chinese laborers and pursuing coverups to further the chemical industry at the expense of its citizen’s health, we should all be ecstatic to fall from that tanted and corrupt “greatness”.