It's the only country in Americas that US citizens think is important.

America is colloquially the USA. The Americas is something else. South America is something else. North America is something else.

That time has passed.

Now you have me really curious. When did "that time" start, and when did it end?

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		Maybe it started, when the USA became the global power in the half of the 20th century and it stopped when they lost being the free and aspiring country others countries think they should model after, which might be in 2001, or when they openly started extorting their (former) allies, which is under Trump.