Post #65313
2025-12-15 09:39 UTC
There were many empires throughout the history. Of course there were very few at the scale of your examples. We didn’t had internet or ability to fly and sail bunch of tanks across thousands of kilometers within days. But history shows that intend was always there
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2025-12-15 10:20
You can’t separate imperialism from its economic basis. The ability for a country to take on the mantle of empire post-US is extremely mitigated. Imperialism isn’t a magical force but a material process.
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@Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 2025-12-15 13:57
‘intent’ is a bit of a devious notion in this context though, isn’t it? Whose intent? We didn’t had internet or ability to fly and sail bunch of tanks across thousands of kilometers within days. We didn’t have these when the current global power structure was established. We didn’t have AK-47S either, and much of the world had yet to industrialize. It was a very specific context.