Literally how am I showing an US vs THEM mindset?

Because you argument this way:

This is a fair argument, but then you have to ask what countries haven't had at least 1 movie with a historical mistake to throw in some patriotic wank.

using our idea of mobile train

I don't see why you're allowed to dismiss one of our strengths just because you don't like it.

Reading "The Economist" and the NYT recently as a German made me talk to my American friends, who I have plenty of, and explain them the German perspective. To prevent them from having their world view messed up by authors who push a binary world view. I would have never expected an article like that from the NYT which was a lot more objective in the past than "The Economist" about Germany.

I don't see why you're allowed to dismiss one of our strengths just because you don't like it.

On the contrary. I'm thankful to this day for the protection of the world order the US had in the past. I didn't want that Germany was pushed into the leader of the free world role. But it was also unfair to let Americans fight the majority of the conflicts for the Europeans that were unavoidable, like Serbia.

America is a historically weak country and we got bullied around a decent amount by the major European powers until we fought enough wars to get them to realize it was more trouble than it was worth.

I'm glad mankind has matured enough in the western world to limit this behavior. Those were the times of unilateralism, stronger bullying the weak, and bilateral alliances. I'm happy the US build international institutions after WWII to end these ages. Too bad