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End of WW2 and Europe in shambles?
USA was better before WW2?
What do you mean??
I ask if pre-WW2 USA hadn't that very sentiment of "being better than anyone from any other country".
Who knows? I think it matters less as the world Stage was wildly different in the nineteen century.