its literally impossible to possess aristotelian virtue. you have to be courageous, but not too courageous or youre reckless. you cant be stingy, but if you give away too much money, youre prodigal. if youre not friendly enough youre surly, if youre too friendly youre obsequious
the biggest reason i think America Is Good is that in the time period between Hiroshima and RDS-1 (first Soviet nuclear test) the richest country ever had the opportunity to take over the world with nukes and instead chose to set up various forms of international banking