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The meltdown across Western capitals in response to Donald Trump’s comments about letting Russia have its way with Nato members if they were “delinquent” on their “bills” reveals the heart of the ...

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Americans abandoning their country's traditional values could mark the beginning of the end for one of the world’s greatest empires, a libertarian think tank founder warned. "If the present trends ...

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America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of the first Gulf War, fought largely by ...

Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and ...

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In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson concluded the Constitution didn’t allow acquisition of new territory. But Louisiana was on the market; he wanted it; he grabbed it. This is the logic of empire.

Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world’s population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth’s land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The British ...