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The US isn't trying to build a global empire of any kind, this kind of reckless hyperbole is not productive to discourse. Just because the US is involved in co
by Kaveren 8y ago
The US isn't trying to build a global empire of any kind, this kind of reckless hyperbole is not productive to discourse.
Just because the US is involved in conflicts you may disapprove of in the Middle East does not make current day USA on par with Hitler's Germany.
There's also a sizable internal backlash against recent wars and historically isolationism has been popular in the US.
- weregiraffe 8y ago>The US isn't trying to build a global empire of any kind You don't have to legally control or own territory to be, in effect, an Empire. When you use your military power to force economic interactions of your liking, you are an Empire. For examples, read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
- Kaveren 8y agoThe US isn't forcing economic interactions of its liking anywhere.
- int_19h 8y agoUS has routinely interfered in politics of Central and South American countries - including military assistance for local anti-democratic forces, and in some cases (e.g. Dominican Republic), outright military occupation - to protect its economic interests there. Here's just one example - I picked this one because it is directly related to the term "banana republic", since the intervention was to protect the interests of the United Fruit Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
- Kaveren 8y ago1954 is not current day USA.