Comment by jmyeet

Empires tend to have defining characteristics that are both the reason they become empires in the first place and ultimately what is their undoing.

The British Empire was the drug dealer empire (first tobacco then opium).

The US is the arms dealer empire, at least since WWI.

The point here is that I believe that any sufficiently large company in the US eventually becomes a defense contractor and thus aligns itself with US foreign policy [1].

So we have Amazon selling cloud services to the CIA, Google selling cloud services to the military and Israel, Meta cooperating with military uses of AI and so on.

[1]: https://newrepublic.com/article/153044/big-techs-unholy-alli...