Where did the "muh personal accountability" guys go? I claim they are a bag of cognitive dissonance, and this problem has a cultural origin — not merely political, not merely the failure of one administration as they all assure me, in trying to distance themselves. I have lived in the USA for long enough to know most people here would say one thing one day and do the opposite the next morning. In fact, the current behavior of the US is merely a replay of the cold war, and the early 20th century before that, and the whole 19th century before it. The rule, not the exception. They truly think they are above the rest of humanity, their society broadcasts this message at all levels (see image), and their worst fear is not being able to dictate what outsiders (like myself) do. When your society is imbued in the "sola" mantras, rapture supremacism, deontological fetishism and idealist assurance of the expression of a purer and superior cultural consciousness, the result can be no other than this. Or as expressed by Gustavo Bueno: "there is a direct path from Luther to Hitler".