This is the position of the US gov towards the rest of the world.
We are #1. Europe, we saved your asses from the Germans not once but twice, you owe us, so you'll pay $8.00 per gal of gas while we pay a small fraction of that. Africa, there is nothing there so stop whining, the only country worth its salt was South Africa and we broke them, now their leaders can be controlled like the rest of the continent. North Africa and the middle east, well let’s just say as long as you serve our purpose it's all good, just don't step out of line. China, buy our debt, your economy will fail before too long (signs of this already) and you'll need us to buy your debt, plus we saved your ass from Japan during WWII.
South America, so primitive that we will mine your country for precious metals and you'll do nothing about it but take the payday (politicians of course).
Did I leave anyone out? Oh, Russia is broke, we did that to them back in the 80's.