Geopolitics

  No american inherently believes what they are doing is inherently correct. Our actions are driven purely by self interest. Anything else is an after thought, a commercial, false advertising.

 “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest”

   At least in trade, there is some mutual understanding even if one is to benefit more than the other. In a war, there is no trade. It is purely duress.