
2. I’m not suggesting people need to be nationalistic, as I believe the ability to criticize the government you live under is absolutely a reason many people immigrate to the United States. I’m saying that if you’re going to leave your home country, why would you come to the United States if you hate it?
And to your second point, thats how hegemony works. We degrade the stability of most weaker countries so we can better extract resources and secure high ish standards of living for our own citizens. It’s what we’re doing in Venezuela rn and what we’ve done to countless resource rich countries before that. Is it so hard to believe that some of those people want that high quality of life too and still dislike the us?