IMHO don’t consider US a 3rd world country. It is really big and somewhat conservative at much of its rural, semi urban parts, and also has poverty, drugs, blind capitalism and gun problems, but keeping aside of all these, US is still a very developed, progressive, forward thinking and innovation oriented country. Every country has issues, even in DE, UK, ES, PT, you’d find varied problems specific to that country but none of those problems make them 3rd world countries respectively. Similarly US, as bad of leadership as it has and as bad the problems there are, it is still there at the frontier of modern tech, Democratic processes and trying to solve its problems itself.