The rise of the United States to the rank of a coercitive superpower is a synthesis of supremacist ideologies and practices. Slavery, settler colonialism, imperialist diktats, military interventionism, organized military coupes in developing countries, mass destruction, financial piracy of foreign funds deposited in American banks, blackmail and blatant robberies of the wealth of nations as in Iraq, Libya, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. We already have the freedom and our heroes fought for it. America is not the solution to solve the corruption in this country.
Good point L1tech,
However the rise of any state revolves on the need of the given state to defeat an enemy or states, at that. America is not the one that set the precedent, on the contrary the United States follows natural law. As a bear overpowers and defeats competitor predators such as wolves and mountain lions for the given resources in his or her domain. The same as a lion must outcompete his competitors, the hyena, the jackal, the leopard, and other lions in order to protect and acquire resources for survival. What about the powers of the classical epoch such as the British Empire, the French Empire, the Spanish Empire? Did they not colonize continents and spread their seed to produce and attain resources for the mother state? The United States, in actuality, was a colony of the British Empire, set up by the British Empire in order to reduce the congestion of the English mainland as well as to proliferate British seed into the new world as to acquire not only tobacco, but cotton, timber, wheat, coal, fur, etc to be exported back to the mother state as well as to trade with other powers, thereby facilitaitng the growth of not only the mother state's economy, but the growth of the colony itself. Its based on the concept of survivalism; one must overpower his or her competitors and enemies in order to survive. One cannot blame the United States for His Manifest Destiny. He inherited his supremacist ideals and positive outlook not from himself, but from His colonizer. The United States, afterall, is a colony and its original colonists were decedents of the British Empire. That come from Anglo-Saxon stock. And we know that the British ruled the largest empire in the world, controlling over 1/4th of the world's land mass.
The United States, freed itself from British yolk in 1776, but didn't totally eradicate its British roots. And the American Psyche of Manifest Destiny comes from primordial British notion of Supremacy. The child inherits traits from the mother, so to say.
What about the Romans? Didn't they utilize settler colonialism (throughout Europe, Africa and Asia Minor), didn't they use military intervention to champion their own cause (Roman-Etruscan Wars, the Punic Wars, the Thracio-Roman Wars, Roman-Gaulic Wars, Roman-Germanic Wars, Roman-Hispanola Wars, Roman-Dacian Wars etc). Every power, in the history of man kind has initiated wars to champion its own cause for the benefit of its own people, L1Tech.
Every nation, every state, every republic, monarchy, empire etc whatever you want to call their political system, will champion a cause that is beneficial to their own interests. Either you be Filipino, Chinese, French, American, Russian, Japanese, Mexican etc. No nation in this world wants to be dependent, no nation in this world wants to langour in desolate isolationism. That's the point I want to stress out.
Just as humans are innate born with the passion to succeed and outcompete their competitors; so too will be nation states, who are composed of millions of humans. Driven by the same instincts as the human that composes the nation state.
The United States is a proponent of globalization; money and wealth is what makes the United States keep on working. Its the definition of a pure capitalist state.
And for your information, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and many other OPEC nations own large stocks of American interests. So this goes back to the notion you pointed out of American 'blackmail and robberies' of the wealth of nations. Considering that the United States is gorging on their oil and totally dependent on the oil they produce; the said OPEC states are actually profitting from the United States, which is the world's largest consumer of oil and petroleum. Consumes over 1/4th of the world's oil production. Strategists and analysts would go so far as to champion the antithesis of your statement. That the OPEC nations actually have their thumb and control of the United States.
Who ever controls the oil and natural resources, will influence the United States, which is totally dependent on the said resources for its day-to-day operation.
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