alt Hacker NewsI grew up in Eastern Europe. For 90% of people there at the time, US = paradise. Maybe it was propaganda, I don't know. Later in life I got travel a lot and meet a lot of Americans and for most, their moral and ethics are at the exact opposite of what the US is showing now.
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viraptor • yesterday at 8:51 AM
It doesn't have to be a paradise in absolute terms to be a significantly better place. EE to the US was definitely an improvement for a very long time. Even if many other places already didn't see the US as good guys.
graemep • yesterday at 11:09 AM
its relative. The US was far preferable to the Soviet Union. Its now far preferable to its major global rival, China.
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Most Eastern European people I know have long associated the US with calamities such as the bombing of civilians in Belgrade.