Comment by wormlord
12 days ago
Dude come on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_imperialism#Strategy
Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, are locations that are directly under US control. The entire western hemisphere is within our sphere of control, and a huge chunk of the planet was either directly aligned with us (EU, AUS/UK) or was compliant for fear of regime change.
The country itself was founded on the destruction of dozens of civilizations, a victory so total you don't even consider it as part of US imperial conquest. I can't believe I even have to explain this to people on here my God.
The combined population of those locations is about 5 million people. Compare with, say, colonial India, which was about 300 million people.
I’m not denying the existence of American imperialism entirely, but let’s be real about its scope compared to old school empires.