On another Doom excerpt
“There were even breakthroughs on peripheries of the Russian and American empires. In 1892, Dimitri Ivanovsky first identified pathogens smaller than bacteria…” Niall Ferguson, page 155
I disagree that the US ever really largely was or is now at all an imperialist country. We protect international water ways and have a big military; that is true. And the country was imperialist for a few years in The Philippines and a small part of Latin America, but that has been over a for a long time. I think what Russia did in Eastern Europe was more significant. Russia actually controlled people’s lifestyles and caused emigration.
Milan Kundera, an emigrant from then Czechoslovakia, spoke of the tyranny of large countries over smaller ones. Well, he knows better than I do. But what the U.S. does in the world now is burden as much as a privilege.