"That is until you start to think about it in any depth."
Then maybe you should apply your own rhetoric to yourself, birdie.
The clock started long ago, try taking a critical look at History, not when, as usual, it suits many contributors to this Forum.
Seeds long sown of all sorts have manifest, and problems that have still to germinate, having been sown hundreds- if not thousands of years ago.
Just because the blowback doesn't fit your narrow, blinkered, expectations show the lack of depth of your football pitch.{goalposts, parameters, conditioning}
Do you know the history of the Philippines ? American stolen and USED.
or
Australia? - 'five eyes' /American poodles
Egypt? Muslim Brotherhood, British meddling... or how it was finally bought off to make 'peace' with the Jewish state.
Indonesia? Sukarno/Suharto ... American meddling again with the devious Kissinger as lynchpin
If you are looking for "depth", try cutting your own chains, or, if you just want a laugh, watch some of the blatant, UNreported, irony of Trump's major policy shift in the land of the Wahhabi hate exporters last week.