The cracks are showing. The US empire is in decay. What will the world look like once it’s no longer able to bully everyone? What do we have to look forward to both inside and outside the imperial core?
The cracks are showing. The US empire is in decay. What will the world look like once it’s no longer able to bully everyone? What do we have to look forward to both inside and outside the imperial core?
A global hegemon on the scale of the British and then US empire is kind of a blip historically though — it’s not obvious that another state will continue in the same role
There were many empires throughout the history. Of course there were very few at the scale of your examples. We didn’t had internet or ability to fly and sail bunch of tanks across thousands of kilometers within days. But history shows that intend was always there
‘intent’ is a bit of a devious notion in this context though, isn’t it? Whose intent?
We didn’t have these when the current global power structure was established. We didn’t have AK-47S either, and much of the world had yet to industrialize. It was a very specific context.
You can’t separate imperialism from its economic basis. The ability for a country to take on the mantle of empire post-US is extremely mitigated. Imperialism isn’t a magical force but a material process.