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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
The US is masquerading as what‽ Is anyone actually buying that?
Lots of people, unfortunately
Nobody in the long list of countries bombed or regime changed by them.
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