The world bully/mafia is the U.S.

Question

The world bully/mafia is, by far, the US.

Did you notice how it threatened Canada and Denmark (Greenland) and literally everyone just took it?

I don't like any of this, but we need a kind of balance.  US moves in Ukraine utterly destroyed the balance forcing Russia to react.

Answer 1

This claim is false and the right term for the US is world leader not world bully. When researching this topic I noticed many sources saying that certain US leaders are bullies, not the US as a whole. For example, Foreign Policy says, "Trump, Musk, and their minions appear to be convinced that they can bully the entire world." (https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/30/trump-bully-world-america-foreign-policy/) Not only does Foreign Policy talk about leaders bullying but so does Richard Lowenthal in his article, No One Likes Bullies. He states, "Trump thinks he can bully the entire world into submission." (https://medium.com/this-america/no-one-likes-bullies-b8ec9688d94f) Moving past the world bully idea we can focus on the world leader idea. The US leads the world in many categories and is a very successful nation. According to US News and World Report, "The United States of America is a North American nation that is the world’s most dominant economic and military power." (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/united-states) This quote shows how the world leads in some very important categories that prove that the US is a leader. In conclusion, the US may have leaders that are bullies but overall the US is not a bully but instead a leading nation. 

Answer 2

What is a Mafia? The mafia is an organized crime group that operates as a shadow government with hierarchy and codes of silence. How is the U.S. a mafia? Economically, with sanctions. For example, in 2011 the U.S. government adopted sanctions against Syria. “In August 2011, in response to the Syrian regime’s exercise of violence and repression in the region, the President issued Executive Order 13582 which blocks the property of the Government of Syria, provides additional authority for designating individuals and entities, prohibits new investments in Syria by U.S. persons, prohibits the exportation or sale of services to Syria by U.S. persons, prohibits the importation of petroleum or petroleum products of Syrian origin, and prohibits U.S. persons from involvement in transactions involving Syrian petroleum or petroleum products” https://www.state.gov/syria-sanctions.  This quote shows, by the United States imposing these sanctions they took away from the people of the country. They prohibited income and it was hard to get food and supply medicine. Which negatively affects the economy and the income of the country itself. Military, the U.S. backs Israel’s military action in Gaza against the Palestinians. “The Biden administration caused controversy after bypassing Congress on multiple occasions to authorize arms sales to the Israeli military. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Gaza_war  This quote shows, the U.S. was an aggressor through financial support of the Israeli military.  Political affairs,  the U.S. involvement with regime change in Iraq in 2003 with the fall of Saddam Hussein. “ By May, Iraq's army had been defeated and its regime overthrown. Saddam Hussein was later captured, tried and executed. However, no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. In 2004, the country was engulfed by a sectarian insurgency. In later years, a civil war broke out between Iraq's Sunni and Shi'a Muslim factions. US troops withdrew from Iraq in 2011.It is estimated that 461,000 people died in Iraq from war-related causes between 2003 and 2011 and that the war cost the US $3 trillion.”  This quote explains how the U.S.  used their power to go into a country for their own political gains to take advantage of a weaker nation. With false claims to weapons of mass destruction. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64980565