It’s been the Don and everyone has danced to the beat when they spread NATO east, invaded Iraq, tortured prisoners, supported coups in Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere, destroyed Afghanistan, decided to take out Gadaffi in Lybia, flooded Syria with weapons, created a refugee crisis, imposed structural adjustment programs on the entire Global South, tanked the world’s economy in ’07, droned multiple countries incessantly, and slowly built up military capabilities and biolabs in Ukraine.
These actions weren't from America trying to take out nations that didn't work for their people, "spreading democracy" around the world. They were taken "because they could work for their people". Once one gets beyond the propaganda in American media and gets a feel for the "little people" thinking, it becomes fairly evident that those nations approved of their leadership and benefited from their policies. Otherwise they would have overthrown their leaders themselves.
In America and Europe, our media gives us the impression that the whole world is united against the evil President Bootin.
The laughable idea that Putin is ruling over a country of slaves with an iron fist is what most Americans believe, even after discovering how absurd this was in every other country we "liberated". Putin is reasonably well liked in Russia and he has instituted many changes to elevate the average Russian's living standard since he took over from the oligarchy's choice that Clinton manipulated into office there with literal suitcases of CIA cash.
Within the ‘sphere of influence’ arguments, the EU could be considered additional US states — with functioning healthcare systems.
It is amazing how Americans can so easily believe they are the "good guys" in the world when they can't even expect the basics of life as their own Constitution mandates be provided for them. All of the countries you listed above had a public healthcare system, including the one's you didn't mention, such as Cuba, before their "liberation".
It is often said that America's primary export is its borderline pornographic entertainment. I would suggest that its "real" major export is political and is the neoliberal market-based economics that has taken root in Europe since Reagan and Thatcher joined Ayne Rand in a three way.
After that resounding success across the pond, Clinton said "hold my beer" and used the econ ignorance of Americans to take neoliberalism to a whole new level. (Nothing will fundamentally change) Biden is just another of his students and the right wing's characterization of him as a "socialist leftist" is comical, or would be if only American voters would get the joke.
The US has enjoyed the position of having the global reserve currency for decades. The safest investment for central banks throughout the world has been US Treasury Bonds, and since it got off of the gold standard, American IOUs are literally the backbone of the global economy.
America's Federal Reserve bank simply offered a free clearing bank for payments and receipts. Any importance this holds beyond that is mostly just hype, as is the "American IOU's" narrative about our currency that has always been dependent upon "real resources" and productivity, not a shiny metal with little practical use.
If the world rejects the US dollar for foreign trade it will have very little impact on our domestic economy. If anything, it will be the failure of our economy due to an almost non-existent investment in the American people for decades, coupled with the willy-nilly propensity for sanctions against our political rivals across the globe to cause our downfall.
With the world's strongest fiat currency and abundant resources, we don't "need" to sell Treasury debt to fund domestic spending. Anything that can be resourced is "affordable", with or without bond issues. The money must be created by Congress deficit spending before it is available to be "borrowed", so bonds are nothing more than a drain on reserves in our banking system that incentivize thrift with a small dividend.
