Americans’ muted reaction to the quarter-century anniversary of 9/11 reveals a waning zeal for the American imperial project. We tolerate it only because we believe it can’t end. But it can.
Buddy, I don’t think you know what an empire means. Empire doesn’t mean “the citizenry have resources,” it means everybody kowtows to our political interests. You wanna know how fuckin big the American empire is? When covid hit, half of Europe still hadn’t fully recovered from OUR housing market crash in 2008. Not just half the world, half of the economic bloc that we treat as “equals.” You can’t bridge “The US isn’t an empire because their people don’t have healthcare” and “Why does every country turn a blind eye when the US does X.”
Buddy, I don’t think you know what an empire means. Empire doesn’t mean “the citizenry have resources,” it means everybody kowtows to our political interests. You wanna know how fuckin big the American empire is? When covid hit, half of Europe still hadn’t fully recovered from OUR housing market crash in 2008. Not just half the world, half of the economic bloc that we treat as “equals.” You can’t bridge “The US isn’t an empire because their people don’t have healthcare” and “Why does every country turn a blind eye when the US does X.”