Declaration of Independence: “Merciless Indian savages” and the creation of empire

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VNGLwDuWc8g

The US Catalyzed Japan's Invasion of Manchuria | Sarah Paine

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QUcdQLEhsc0

 

Opinion | America Is an Empire in Decline. That Doesn’t Mean It Has to Fall. - The New York Times

…America will need to give up trying to restore its past glory through a go-it-alone, America First approach. It was the same impulse that pushed the Roman Empire into the military adventurism that brought about its eventual destruction. The world economy has changed, and the United States will never again be able to dominate the planet as it once did. But the possibility of building a new world out of a coalition of the like-minded is a luxury Rome never had. America, whatever it calls itself, should seize the opportunity...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/opinion/america-rome-empire.html

Donald Trump’s rant against Iran is the howl of a dying empire

Donald Trump's rant against Iran is the howl of a dying empire....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/09/donald-trump-rant-iran-dying-empire-nato

Kochland: How David Koch Helped Build an Empire to Shape U.S. Politics & Thwart Climate Action

Billionaire conservative donor David Koch died Friday at the age of 79 from prostate cancer. David Koch — who was worth some $42 billion — and his brother Charles poured massive amounts of money into funding climate change denial through conservative think tanks and politicians. The Koch brothers founded the political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity in 2004, which is credited with turning the “tea party” into a full-fledged political movement. They also backed “right-to-work” efforts, which aim to weaken labor rights and quash union membership. The brothers made their fortune running Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the United States. We speak with the business journalist Christopher Leonard, who just last week published a major new book examining the business dealings of the Koch brothers. It’s titled “Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America.”....
https://youtu.be/WIWeD8jy-iQ

Revenge of the tribes: How the American Empire could fall | Amy Chua

Yale professor Amy Chua has two precautionary tales for Americans, and their names are Libya and Iraq. "We’re starting to see in America something that I’ve seen in other countries that is not good," says Chua. "We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to get to the point where we look at people on the other side of the political spectrum and we see them not just as people that we disagree with but literally as our enemy, as immoral, “un-American” people."...
https://youtu.be/8LZ71c9VVn0

Alexei Bayer: The collapse of the American empire | KyivPost

Last week, this column described the revolutionary fervor shaking U.S. domestic politics and transforming its political system in the most dramatic way in nearly two and a half centuries. Major changes are also underway in Washington’s foreign policy. They are already having implications for the global political and economic system the United States has built since World War II.....
https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/alexei-bayer-collapse-american-empire.html