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The fact is that the US was in a position of strength, as was Scotland, and thus in a position to be actuated as much by the values it hallows as pragmatism or wrath.
Defenceless people are forced to ignore their ideals and be realist to survive in a dog eat dog world. But the wealthy west can afford to be upstanding and actually live by their vaunted ideals. They don’t; the west has always and continues to prosper by whatever underhand means is most effective. The state of strife in the world is such that realism is now the only sensible stance to adopt, but it needn’t have been so if idealism had properly informed realist foreign policy.
When the balance of power changes, let’s hope the new masters act with more propriety!