Imperialist Realism: Why America Can't Quit Empire ft. Daniel Bessner

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  @perlefisker · 1 month ago

  It's enough to read Michael Parenti to understand why Americans don't think the US is an empire - and in the same way, why it is.

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  @stonefruitmedia · 1 month ago

  EVERYTIME people discuss the American empire and bring up Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, they NEVER mention the Kingdom of Hawaii

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  @malcolmmarzo2461 · 1 month ago (edited)

  My lived experience of the American Empire was being a young-and-dumb combatant in Vietnam. Since then it has been down hill for our country. A cultural collapse. Moral, spiritual, and material.   From this viewpoint the only hope will be external. Maybe from the multipolar world.

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  @Sabundy · 1 month ago

  America...the first empire to be in denial about being an empire

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  @StephenWhite55 · 1 month ago

  Some of the best socio-political analysis you’ve going to find on YouTube. Don’t wait - watch!

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  @robinkash7180 · 1 month ago

  You three should read Eric Berne on "Ain't It Awful" in Games People Play. You simultaneously lament and accept the inevitability of American Empire.

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  @billyclifton5710 · 1 month ago

  US still controls Iraqi oil revenues, and its disbursement to the Iraqi government . It has other means of control than forward basing.

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  @TaipologyAngelica · 1 month ago

  Really excellent work guys…

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• PE

  @petervote7914 · 1 month ago

  So people who don't know, Courtney is Daniel Bessner's wife

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  @nicoleortiz983 · 1 month ago

  Well, this was optimistic! In an older interview I believe with Robert Wright Daniel suggested that change was only possible through a revolution preceded by some catastrophic economic disruption/war.<br>I&apos;m curious as to your take on what role the break up of the Soviet Union (and its ideological handmaid the Wolfowitz doctrine) has played in bringing about the historical moment we&apos;re in. I personally lean towards thinking Putin was right about it being a geopolitical disaster. Without Soviet pushback the US has run amuck in ways that have probably even surprised a realist like Mearsheimer.

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  @tomasursua7077 · 1 month ago

  Our first step needs to be forcing our uni-party- or displacing them- to negotiate a verifiable peace treaty with our enemies that require draw down of conventional and nuclear forces on everyone’s part so that major wars can no longer be launched.

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  @BEGNEAnne · 1 month ago

  The American Empire: Colonization. coercion, CIA, coups, bribes to rulers, terrorist attacks, supremacy of the Dollar for trade to keep the flow of money coming from these other countries. The mistake was to allow the greedy corporations to go abroad to China mainly and make of China the new industrial superpower. The more money in our pockets was the step too much.

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