But the US gradually, if imperfectly, built up trust through multilateral institutions. Europeans did much better at reconciliation with their neighbors after WWII, in part because the malign and evil conditions of Nazi rule made it necessary to talk about the past in terms of moral categories rather than power politics.
那些全球霸主们永远不会得到自己邻居的爱戴。但美国正逐渐（虽然还不算完美地）通过多边机制来建立彼此之间的信任。欧洲人在与自己的二战对手和解方面做得更好，这在某种程度上是因为纳粹统治的邪恶性令人们觉得更有必要去从道德范畴，而不是权力政治层面去谈论过去。