"We’re all dying"

—By Caitlin Moran

“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness: poverty and wealth have both failed.”

— Frank McKinney Hubbard

"All empires, it seems, require myths of divine right, racial preeminence, manifest destiny, or a “civilizing mission” to cover their often barbarous behavior in other people’s countries."

"...That Britons and Americans have proven so comfortable with the idea of forcing thousands of people to be free by slaughtering them—with Maxim machine guns in the nineteenth century, with precision-guided munitions”

—Chalmers Johnson

Western empire (read🇺🇲 empire) isn't founded on "Judeo-Christian" ethics (an imaginary mongrel) or Liberalism; it is, like all empires prior to it, founded on violence, i.e., having no qualms to f*@ck up weak societies.

Arrogance (a sense of exceptionalism) is usually the achilles heel of empires.

Africa is under imperial control; 💰 is the new tool of domination.

"...the process of formal decolonization did not represent so much the end of Western imperialism as its re-expression in a new and highly creative form...even amidst decolonization the Western imperial system continued to...

The "White" Empire aka Empire of "Liberty"

"They used to call themselves the G8, until they got mad at Russia and made it G7. They call themselves the industrialized world (never mind that most industry is in the South) or the developed world (never mind that we developed them)"

@indica

A country's foreign policy boils down to securing:
1) energy,
2)raw material,
3)markets,
4) weakening of competitors' access to above; aka "defense"), and
5) satisfaction of a country's political and economic elite's ego trips.

"...the three grand imperatives of imperial (🇺🇲)geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals(🇪🇺🇬🇧🇦🇺🇯🇵🇲🇫🇨🇦🇰🇷), to keep tributaries pliant(global South)and protected, and to keep the barbarians(🇨🇳🇷🇺🇰🇵🇮🇷) from coming together."

— Zbigniew Brzezinski