He would claim that it was proof of superiority. Social Darwinism is an idea that people or countries who succeed in life and who become rich did so because they could adapt to the environment and that those who are poor are inferior to them because they couldn't. In country leading, the idea is that the countries that became wealthy were superior and thus easily became rich while poor countries are inferior in their opinions.
The XYZ affair led to a period of anti-French sentiment in the United States, which was problematic as the French has been the key ally during the American revolution some 20 years before and was one of the primary reasons the United States was able to defeat Great Britain.
However, over those 20 years, France had undergone a revolution of their own and the United States decided to remain neutral in France's war against Great Britain.
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Answer: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world": it was George Washington's Farewell Address to us. The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson was no less clear: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none."
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