Why is US trying to take over the world?

I Googled this yesterday and got a load of stuff. And what nonsense it was.

One argument was that the US was trying to open up the World's trade and make it work properly. What a load of nonsense. The US is the number one maintainer of sanctions around the world, and turns to protectionism whenever it suits it, along with having complex trading agreements with its partners to exclude other countries. There is nothing noble or forward thinking about US trading and economic policy.

To cut this all rather short. What is wrong with US just trying to create an empire? Rome did this. Britain did this. Now America is doing this.

Now why do states/countries try and create Empires?

That is more complex. It is a combination of ambition, protection and genuine self belief. When the Athenians beat the Persians in the C5th it launched an flourishing of civilisation called the Golden Age of Greece. This self belief propelled the Greeks into History and while their time in the limelight was short their brief empire has left an indelible mark of the West. In the most obvious way we still use elements of Greek or Classical architecture and the model for a human sculpture has never been bettered.

No whether the US has anything to give to civilisation and mankind remains to be seen. McDonalds & Coke and the Vietnam War and not going to go down in history. And will the inevitable defeat of Russia in the long drawn out Cold War be a great loss or will the US be able to synthesise anything positive from this.

But US creating an empire for all the old reasons seems the obvious place to start to answer this question. And yet no where on Google does anyone say this. There may have been an intense piece of brainwashing to try and separate the obvious two words that go hand in hand: USA and Empire. And in the absence of this obvious link I write this blog entry.