The world political-economic--the inter*nation*al system--needs the US to be the renegade police force, the law-breaking law enforcer. It's not a congenital defect, and there wouldn't be international comity if the US were nicer. ___________________________________
The U.S. is a police force? Against whom that matters and in what way that matters?
Looks to me like they're a dangerous, overreaching, destabilizing force with delusions of grandeur and zero political sophistication.
Joanna