Ever since the end of the Second World War, the United States of America was a global
superpower with certain expectations of it by itself and the rest of the world. Many take this as the USA having a responsibility to help poorer and developing nations. Other take this as that the US can do whatever it wants as long as it promotes the US’s best interests.
As I alluded to earlier, many people take the US place in the word as a sign that the US
should be obligated to help nations that are not as wealthy. That the US being a world power as an innate responsibility to help other poorer and developing nations. Others take a different perspective where they believe that the US does not have a responsibility to poorer and developing nations, but only to itself. They have a more America First and/or isolationist mentality. This group of people can hold the position that the US should help poor and developing nations, only when it is in the United States’ best interest.
As for me, I think the US has a responsibility to help nations that poorer and still
developing when compared to the US. I hold this position because sine the US is one of the
wealthiest nations on Earth and is a superpower we have a responsibility to help because we
can. I will admit that it does look good for the US to help other power nations, it can increase
our soft power, but that is secondary to just being able to help and doing so.
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