Everybody should read How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Imerwhar. Its an incredibly well written book that features interesting history about how the US has both built an empire while also masquerading as an anti-imperial nation
this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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The US is masquerading as what‽ Is anyone actually buying that?
Nobody in the long list of countries bombed or regime changed by them.
Lots of people, unfortunately
Well of course, as long as the US has halfway working elections, it's technically not an empire. So it's well hidden, if it really is one.
Having elections by no means disqualifies something from being an empire. See the British Empire, for example
oh you mean the one that split and decolonised soon after it no longer had royal rulers and actually elected its leaders
Bro it's literally still a monarchy. The monarch just hasn't been in charge since like, 1689. The british empire absolutely functioned as a parliamentary democracy
No I don't, not sure what you're thinking of
I will go farther than the author and say war and the tools of death and destruction should not only not be profitable, but very costly for defense manufacturers and the multimillionaires, billionaires, and corporations who have insatiable blood and gildlust. Not the taxpayer. These industries should barely turn a profit and be taxed in the 90th percentile.
People should watch 4400, it's a short lived series about how the wealthy)powerful squandered the future, and attempts were made to fix it by traveling into the past with superpowers, with the aristocrats giving chase into the apsr as well