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I'm guessing I'm a bit of an outsider to this community and although I usually keep up with the news I don't dig super deep in any particular direction.
But my take is that any of the regimes mentioned here would jump at the opportunity to be imperialist and already do. I think it's the fundamental rule of the game that they all play.
The attitude of "If we don't do it to them, they'll do it to us" is how most atrocities in history were justified.
This take is based on what though?
This is a very "the status quo is forever" type of thinking. The feudal states also believed in such narratives during the rise of capitalist powers.
i'm not sure i agree with the ee commenter (certainly wouldn't use "regime" like that) but i think it's within reason to say about capitalist geopolitics in this "end of history" period. if there's a global hegemon and it is capitalist then why would we expect anything else from them? china hopefully doing something else by virtue of not having capitalists in charge unless they cook up a business plot.
I know. I don't like either and hope it can change but I think it's what is happening.