The USA has not been respected around the world since prior to WWI when the USA declared itself an Isolationist Nation while under a Republican government.
The reason the USA has never been respected around the world as a Nation is because the USA won't actually do anything from a global perspective unless there is clearly something in it for the USA.
If the USA sees nothing in it for America, they won't participate, regardless of what is happening on the other side of the world.
The rampant spread of Hitler's Nazi Regime is a prime example of America's Isolationist mentality during WWII.
It wasn't until Sir Winston Churchill of Great Britain brought to the attention of the President of the USA at the time, that Hitler had been positioning German submarines inside New York Harbor and 3 miles off the coast of the eastern seaboard and had sunk over 680 US vessels leaving NY Harbor, including US Navy ships.
Up to that point, US Intel were unaware of Hitler's covert actions on the USA because the USA was hiding under their blanket of Isolationism which almost cost them their own country.
The USA will forever be indebted to Sir Winston Churchill for tipping-off the US government and for saving the USA from Hitler's Nazi Regime.
