"Please Europe, Help Us" ...you know, you can always backtrack on some of the events & decisions of the 2nd half of XVIII century
(but sort of seriously, if you'd look at, say, Canada - still mild vassals ;p - they seemed to had done better over those two centuries, though more "steady" hence quiet / under the radar ...much less of that Manifest Destiny / exceptionalism / America's Backyard like BS; as for "democracy" one can hardly beat Iceland ...alas, also a place light on PR)
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