“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
“Even during the Obama years, the US was using its extraterritorial power with increasing enthusiasm.”
Why ‘even’? Wasn’t Obama a president of the biggest imperialist power? Many of course believed that he could have been a benevolent imperialist.
This law of imperialism is not then about a “rogue” state like Iran or “undemocratic” on like Venezuela.
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