Is there a historical maymay dumber than American "isolationism"

we just didn't think we should get involved in the wars Europe made for themselves

imagine our surprised when it actually worked out pretty well for us

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you have to see it from our perspective.

all our lives we've been in everyone else's milkshake.

I personally have never heard a fellow american downright say that we were definitively isolationist, just that we were MORE isolationist than we are now by far.

>>1473560
>imagine our surprised when it actually worked out pretty well for us

Yeah, 40+ years of the civilized world living in perpetual terror of a nuclear exchange sure was a barrel of laughs. God forbid we mind our own business.

>>1473706
it was for us

it was pretty much our golden ages (all downhill from there).

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>>1473513
>Is there a historical maymay dumber than American "isolationism" pre WW1 or WW2?

British "Splendid Isolation"

>>1473725
it wasn't that splendid at all really

sure they took over most of the world but they had no money, they had to reenact the American revolution with Boers, and they got roped in a continental war anyway (twice really).

>>1473716
Well that worked out but nowdays America's role has both its cons and Pros for the Average American as seen with the Rise of Trump and Sanders due to the "Moderates" ignoring the cons

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to be honest though I don't think we were any less expansionist and interventionist in the 19th century than recently.

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>>1475304
Interventionist, maybe, expansionist, definitely not. We didn't do as much meddling from afar but we certainly had a taste for military adventurism.

>>1473716
Wat?

Life is better now for the average American than any other time and we generally don't have to worry about nuclear holocaust.

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>mfw people use reaction images from a good show for bad opinions

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>>1475447
Your opinions are bad.

>>1473716
>Golden Ages

Not if you weren't an upper middle class white person.