Why has there been so much conflict between the United States and developing nations since World War II?
At the end of World War II, allied armies liberated the concentration camps where 12 million Europeans, including 6 million Jews, had been executed or worked to death. The extremely horrifying circumstances of this crime convinced most Americans that their wartime propaganda was right. The fascists really were the embodiment of satanic evil, and they had attacked Great Britain, France and the United States because they hated freedom and democracy.Americans like the image of themselves as the “good guys” who fight against the “evil dictators” and assorted “bad guys” of the world. From now on, they would fight for freedom and democracy, or at least for peace and stability. They would fight against dictators and the forces of evil. They would be the world’s policeman.In the decades after World War II, colonial empires were disintegrating all over the world, and new nation-states were coming into existence. Most of them were actually tribal or aristocratic societies with a very thin veneer
