US emerging as a hostile, expansionist fascist power, as rule-of-law whithers

[snot]

7. Indeed...

I vaguely recall a movie about a small country declaring war on the US on the theory that after the small country capitulated, the US would generously fund its recovery.

And then there are movies about how countries we've "helped" have ended up worse off than they were before – and there's plenty of fodder for more such movies.