We live in a widely deceptive world especially as news media’s twist and frame pretty much everything. It still all boils down to $$$$$$$$ regardless whose pockets it goes into.
If you want to define the USA - simply put a dollar sign across a map of the USA ...as that’s how the world sees us as they all line up to take what they will from this nations peoples.
So true and sadly it is aided and abetted by fellow Americans.