The United States has always grabbed global attention for just being what is it—the United States. The mightiest military power, the biggest donor for many countries, rebuilder of Europe after the Second World War, the biggest funder for many UN bodies, the self-appointed global policeman, the ever-anxious do-gooder, the unthinking bungler into things that it understood very little, the warmonger par excellence, the biggest arms seller, home to the highest number of Nobel Prize winners, the country with some of the world's best universities, or the most diverse population, who are most easy to strike up a conversation with compared to people anywhere else in the world—the list goes on and on.