The U.S. owes its image of success to: (1) the vast lands and mineral resources that the U.S. ???liberated??? with violence from the native inhabitants, (2) Europe???s, especially Great Britain???s, self-destruction in World War I and World War II, and (3) the economic destruction of Russia and most of Asia by communism or socialism.After World War II, the U.S. took the reserve currency role from