Empire
I don't know why we're so hesitant to use the word "empire" to describe the current global socioeconomic reality. Actually I do know why: usage of that word completely contradicts the necessary belief in freedom, the freedom promised by democracy, liberalism and the "free market."
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Although China is rapidly rising in the global economy and is slowly becoming a global force to be reckoned with, reality compels us to say that we currently live in the American World Empire. And that empire is a continuation of its European predecessor that was commanded by the Portuguese, Spanish and lastly the British. "The empire on which the sun never sets" was first Spanish, "el imperio donde nunca se pone el sol," then English, and now American. That's a fact. The Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once said that "war is the continuation of politics by other means." I'd like to complete that sentence by adding: "politics is the continuation of economics by other means." All of which leads us to one inescapable conclusion: wars are fought on economical grounds. Always. To expand the empire, is to enrich the core of that Empire, its spiritual, economical and political leaders in particular. That's a fact as well.
Although the riches of the Roman Catholic Church and other Churches isn't to be underestimated, we've all but lost the traditional spiritual leadership. We've created modern equivalents with politicians, mega-corporations and billionaires, who act in unison to keep intact and strengthen the current incarnation of that same old world empire. And if you thought that a functional democracy by and for "we, the people" in any way features in that picture, think again. We've seen the same empire move its core from Spain to England to America. And we all know that America is simply territory conquered by Europeans, the English in particular. An empire can be identified by its military, economical, political and cultural influence over its region of control. McDonald's, Nike, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, Hollywood, "the leader of the free world"... Need I continue? I think not: The global economical, political and cultural hegemony of the United States should self-evident. And that's not because America is the bestest most special country in the history of the world, but because it's a continuation of the empires of old, it's the old empire's new center.
As an empire grows, so does its military, and the American military, America's military spending and its engagement in perpetual warfare all over the world may be the clearest indication that we're still living in the age of empire. The American military is bigger, better armed and better funded than the next ten countries, most of which are allies, combined. All of America's armed conflicts serve to either eliminate any regime that doesn't comply with liberalism and the current global economic structure, or gain cheap labor, resources or access to markets. War is the continuation of empire by other means. Economics is the continuation of empire by other means. Politics is the continuation of empire by other means. It's all the same...
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