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America hasn't really stood for Freedom (in the pure sense and deserving of a capital F) from when it's "Democracy" 'for male landowners only' was formed, followed by a couple of centuries of taking all the land of the territory it claimed away from the Commons (and the various Indian Tribes who were its main users) and making all of it have owners (i.e. with its use by others controlled by said owners rather than Free).
In its territory, America has had somewhat better periods in that regard, but even the end of Slavery didn't really end it, just restricted it to be only for prisioners, whilst outside its territory America always acted to make other people's lives and possessions serve the best interests of a powerful subsection of the American society rather than be free (hence how most of those interventions involved replacing one dictator by a different pro-America dictator, or setting up semi-Democratic regimes whose hands were tied by a web of obligations to America and some of it's allies, such as how the US and UK basically gave themselves oil exploitation contracts for most of Iraq's oil wealth and "security" contracts at the end of the 2nd Iraq War and then set up a "Democratic" government there).
However unlike with regimes were the web of laws and property that curtails most people's freedom is much thinner and more direct, and hence more obvious, American Propaganda on "Freedom" has always been top-notch.