> Does the definition of empire preclude the idea of modern empires not following the same methods of past empires? Yes, basically. There's a long wikipedia ar

> Does the definition of empire preclude the idea of modern empires not following the same methods of past empires? Yes, basically. There's a long wikipedia article on American imperialism because it's a popular trope among blue-team coastal elites. Here's A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry on empires: https://acoup.blog/2019/11/22/collections-why-are-there-no-empires-in-age-of-empires/ https://acoup.blog/2019/11/22/collections-why-are-there-no-e... "...an empire is a state where the core ruling population exercises control and extracts resources from a periphery which is composed of people other than the core group (linguistically/culturally/ethnically/religiously distinct). So an empire is a state where one set of people (the core) extract resources (typically by force) from another set of people (the periphery)." You could argue that descriptive linguistics blah blah basically the word just means "really powerful state" now. And maybe it does to a lot of people, or maybe that's where we're headed, but it makes me sad and I don't think we're there yet.