The Beloved Duo: American Nationalism and Machiavellianism

American nationalism is a beautiful thing. Combined with the all powerful defense network the United States has constructed, to produce a pro-American foreign policy, we become the embodiment of Machiavellian ideals. Preemptive strikes against enemies, temporary alliances for immediate gain, clearing the way for American corporate interest; it all involves the essential message of Machiavelli's "The Prince" - adjusting your actions depending on the immediate circumstances of one's current situation and environment. America seems to have taken well to the Machiavellian doctrine of modern politics, and it seems to have treated us quite well. A nation of roughly 12% of the global population purchases and consumes 25% of the world's resources. A nation whose "poor" is better off than 75% of the entire world. We have done well. Thank you, Niccolo Machiavelli for introducing the world to secular and rational politics, for without your ideas we may very well still have be mere coastal nation, with an Imperial Spain to our south west, and vengeful Great Britain to our north. Without proactive defense measures, which some incorrectly deem as "aggressive," and a sense of pride we would be weak and malleable, and Machiavelli realized this principle many centuries before the world's last remaining superpower ever existed.