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minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoI just wouldn’t call it an empire, that’s all. I’m not a historian but to me, empires are made by occupying other countries. The US is a powerful nation of course, but they don’t have the same focus on conquest as the other countries throughout history have had.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny Just ignoring the concept of neocolonialism for a second, most American land was stolen through conquest. That the American Empire is not currently aggressively expanding is irrelevant, did Rome not count as an empire when its borders were stable?
I just wouldn’t call it an empire, that’s all. I’m not a historian but to me, empires are made by occupying other countries.
The US is a powerful nation of course, but they don’t have the same focus on conquest as the other countries throughout history have had.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
Just ignoring the concept of neocolonialism for a second, most American land was stolen through conquest. That the American Empire is not currently aggressively expanding is irrelevant, did Rome not count as an empire when its borders were stable?