Immediately after the creation of nuclear weapons, they were promptly tested in the course of two monstrous attacks on the peaceful citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the closing phases of the Second World War. Those tests resulted in massive euphoria among the American ruling elite who then contemplated bombing one of their allies in the war, namely the USSR, back into the stone age. However, by the time the United States accumulated a nuclear arsenal sufficient for the destruction of the USSR, Moscow managed to build its own nuclear weapons at the cost of heroic efforts of its people, which allowed Russia's population to escape this terrible fate.
In recent decades, the broad possibilities of the Internet and various media platforms allowed Washington to take down states pursuing a policy of their own through the use of so-called "color revolutions." This meddling resulted in the entire Middle East plunging into political chaos, which created preconditions for a number of armed conflicts in the course of which hundreds of thousands of civilians lost their lives. It goes without saying, of course, that the military-industrial complex of the United States and its NATO allies received super-profits from those conflicts through arms sales.
Comment: A more apt or appropriate description for what we're witnessing - as 'bat-shit crazy' - can probably not be made. But this all begs the question: how does one talk down tens of millions Americans from the heights of hysteria they're a part of when so much of the "information" they are receiving not only maintains the big Putin-Nazi lie - but is intended to intensify it?