What do we mean when we talk about US imperialism and the US Empire? Here below is an example of US or really Western imperialism in the Asia-Pacific region.
One of the main forces in Western imperialism is the “5 eyes” Anglophone countries: The US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. NATO is the military arm of Western imperialism.
The economic arm is the EU, which is now an imperialist organization. South Korea and Japan are allies of US imperialism, but they are not imperialist in themselves.
So are India, Pakistan, Jordan, Qatar, and in Latin America, Panama, Haiti, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru.
Colombia and India are imperialist in a localized way. So is Turkey but Turkey is an old fashioned territorial imperialist country, as is Israel, Morocco, and Indonesia.
This is the military arm or wing of imperialism.
It’s important to note that all of this military activity and the hostilities with other countries in this region are all about access to m…
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