Comment by const_cast

America's empire isn't really built on blantant colonialism (although we do that, too). It's built on "planting" US favorable governments all around the world.

I mean, we have half of Africa shooting themselves in the foot over and over for our own benefit. And every time it looks like an African nation is going to do something about it, some counter-military force appears out of nowhere (with US arms?) and some important political heads are assassinated.

This isn't a conspiracy theory, either. The destabilization of world governments done by our government to our benefit is well recorded.