the way things are looking over here (usa) with the economy, the wars and republicans, it could be any time now we turn to imperialism, probably not though
the united states has already been an imperialistic power, although they stopped a while ago, it still goes on in a different fashion.
the war with spain in 1898 the united states started even though they knew the destruction of the USS Maine was due to boiler dysfunction, but they used it as an excuse to pone spain and take all their territories (puerto rico, cuba, phillipines etc.) as part of the imperialistic land grabbing all the major world powers were engaging in at the time, up until WWII the united states was not an empire, but was acting like it. even after, vietnam was all about not letting the vietnameese have control back from france, and there were countless secret cia ops in south america to assasinate people or make sure the right people were in power (alot of them dictators) they didnt want commies in power.
also in iran in 1979 the usa secretly assasinated the democratic leader in order to return to power the overthrown dictatorship in order to keep a steady supply of their precious petrol.
if the usa is not an empire now then what is?
the united states has already been an imperialistic power, although they stopped a while ago, it still goes on in a different fashion.
the war with spain in 1898 the united states started even though they knew the destruction of the USS Maine was due to boiler dysfunction, but they used it as an excuse to pone spain and take all their territories (puerto rico, cuba, phillipines etc.) as part of the imperialistic land grabbing all the major world powers were engaging in at the time, up until WWII the united states was not an empire, but was acting like it. even after, vietnam was all about not letting the vietnameese have control back from france, and there were countless secret cia ops in south america to assasinate people or make sure the right people were in power (alot of them dictators) they didnt want commies in power.
also in iran in 1979 the usa secretly assasinated the democratic leader in order to return to power the overthrown dictatorship in order to keep a steady supply of their precious petrol.
if the usa is not an empire now then what is?
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys" - P.J. O'Rourke
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." - Christopher Lasch
