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Btw this is what I mean when I say that the United States barely counts as part of the imperial core
Western Europe is the imperial core. The average Western European materially benefits from the spoils of imperialism and lives a high quality life because of it. The average American is an exploited colonial subject.
The United States is still a colony, the European Empires just consolidated and moved their headquarters to the colony.
This is why I think that while countries are an important unit of analysis, proper categorizing of core, periphery, and semi-periphery needs to be more fine grained too.
The US definitely is part of the imperial core, and indeed is the hegemon of the capitalist-imperialist world system. But, that doesn't mean that there aren't peripheral and semi peripheral parts of the US.
It's the correct analytical framework for understanding the modern imperial capitalism that ignores national borders