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The value I got from reading your comment was nil. If you have nothing to add to the discussion, why do you contradict yourself by replying?



Except they aren't facts, certainly not as presented.

Consider, you state: "blackmails the rest of the globe with nuclear deterrence"

Blackmail is the threat to expose something the victim doesn't want to see exposed, in exchange for some price or service. Nuclear deterrence, is just that, deterrence. Meaning to mitigate (or deter) an adversary from attacking.

"it ensures trading routes remain open" -- all nations with navies protect legitimate trade from pirates, there are ships from at least a half dozen navies protecting cargo from Somali pirates for example.

The US uses its intelligence agencies to undermine the constitution in the service of corporate interests [paraphrased, if you don't agree feel free to correct my interpreatation] -- The US certainly doesn't do this as a matter of policy, if you know of a different policy it would help your case to actually include it as a citation.

"it outspends the rest of the world on defense" -- In terms of real dollars or in terms of percentage of GDP? The last time I checked as a percentage of GDP, Israel outspent everyone else but I haven't looked in a while. There is also an economic size effect here, the US spends more (in real dollars) than any other country on social programs as well (for example). You probably want to stick to per capita numbers though if you're doing nation-state comparisons.

There are lots of things you can say about the US that are both facts, and make the country look bad, but the choices you made aren't facts so they have a hard time persuading the reader of your 'hegemony' thesis.


So who bombed Hiroshima?

which oil rich part of the world do you think they were raining bombs from aircraft carriers?

Who spies on US allies and their corporations to benefit American ones?

Who spends more than the US on the military?


You seemed disturbed that you were being downvoted. I tried to explain why people would choose to do that instead of engaging with you on the topic.

I'm not responsible for whether or not you choose to extract value.




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