There has never in human history been a state as singularly dominant as the United States in 1991. From the Achaemenids through the conquests of Alexander, Rome at its height, the Islamic caliphates, the colonial empires at their height, all fall short of that brief period of total unquestioned American dominance in the early 90s. The sole global superpower, an economic juggernaut, the financial and cultural capital of the world with the largest navy the world has ever seen capable of intervening anywhere around the globe. You can argue that since then America's position is weaker, but you can't deny that as of right now no other empire in history has ever been more powerful at its height.
>>18012607And why is that surprising? The general trend in history is that power consolidates over time, not the opposite. Imagine what Rome could've done with just the ability of instantaneously communicate across its vast empire.
True, but remember empires always fall as proven by the ones you just mentioned.
>>18012680Good thing the US isn’t an Empire.
>>18012701The US isn't an empire in the conventional sense of having lots of land and colonies, but rather, they hold informal power over stuff like international institutions, financial and economic power, cultural hegemony and military assets
Why was Saddam bad again?Weren't Kuwaitis slant drilling into Iraq to get their oil. Sounds like they were supposed to get whats coming.
>>18013362He invaded a sovereign nation, killed Kuwaiti citizens, and launched missiles at Israel.
>>18013389>He invaded a sovereign nationThe USA has invaded over 50 sovereign states >killed Kuwaiti citizensThe US supports genocide in that region of the world >and launched missiles at Israel.Based. Israel is the single biggest state sponsor for terrorism in the world.
>>18012701Then why did they build the Empire State building?>>18013389He launched missiles at iz after or before invading Kuwait?Why?
>>18013429faggot
>>18013470America firstIsrael never.
>>18012607That would be 1946. 1991 US was barely able to go toe to toe against Serbia and Desert Storm was an incredible fluke.
>>18013470The American empire is literally defined by anal sex.
