LordsFire
Internet Wizard
Gee, what's this?
This Map Shows Where in the World the U.S. Military Is Combatting Terrorism
The infographic reveals for the first time that the U.S. is now operating in 40 percent of the world's nationswww.smithsonianmag.com
This says there are US troops in 40% of all the Worlds nations.
I wonder, just how many wars and invasions the US has done, since the fall of the USSR?
More than 30, although many are minor.
Iraq, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Syria, and a whole bunch of others, are not. "Regime change" has been tried a bunch of times, and since South Korea, every single time has been a disaster. Regime change, of course, is the toppling an existing govenment, in favor to one the US likes better.
Oh, and I'll point out, this is pure military, not counting whatever the State Dep or CIA has been doing.
Face it. The US is a massive empire. Americans just don't like to admit it.
How many of those 40% of nations does the US run as vassal nations?
Even among the places with major US invasions, how many did the US exact tribute from?
In South Korea, Japan, and Germany, the places with tens of thousands of US soldiers garrisoning them for more than half a century, who runs the government, them, or the US?
The US is not an empire. It has Imperial-like traits in some ways, absolutely. It is absolutely World Hegemon. But it has tried to 'export democracy,' rather than subjugate other nations. What the failure of military adventurism in the middle east has shown, is that some people do not want to be free and democratic, and US blood and treasure can't change that. Or at least can't change it without brutality we aren't willing to resort to.
If the US was acting as an empire, it would still control the Philipines, Japan and South Korea would pay tribute, and pretty much the entire Caribbean would be US territories or states.