Things That Make You Say, "What?"

It's because of the idea of the U.S., not what it has been in practice.  The idea of the U.S. is all about freedom, liberty and the ability to be whatever you want to be.  When people around the world look to the U.S. for hope, it's that idea, not what the U.S. has actually been.  We've been commandeered by the cabal so thoroughly who basically use our powerhouse of a economy to build the U.S. military as the world police then use it for their own twisted ends.  This is why the people around the world who hate us, hate us.  Not only that but America is the beacon of materialism now for a reason: to make us weak, unfocused and easy to take down from within (and look at what almost happened).

That same powerhouse military is largely run by good people wanting to do the right thing, so they organized this plan with other militaries and leaders of the world in secret.  Trump was literally their Trump card, so the cabal's world police are the very ones who are taking them apart.  Oh the ironing.  So yea, the very idea of the U.S. combined with the power of it's military is why we're "leading" the world, although I consider the ideals of simple, free living closer to nature personified by much of the world's people is the real leader here.