Notes:
The map I used didn’t include Turkey (US ally) or Gaza as part of Palestine. Palestine and Lebanon are the only countries that have only been attacked by Israel and not the US directly. Pakistan is technically a US ally and Lebanon has security agreements with the US, but neither host US troops.
For every single country in the oil-rich Middle East, the options are to let the US troops come voluntarily, or to fight them off when they attack.
I did another version for China btw:
Its always funny when people try to impute the imperialistic actions of the US on its enemies. The US as the west’s leading country is world capitalism’s cop since the end of WW2, and has ~800 military bases outside to project power outside its borders.
By comparison, all other countries combined have only ~30.
The US has attacked Lebanon directly before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings#U.S._airstrike_on_Lebanon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings#U.S._shelling_of_Beirut
Would love to see this map globally
american caliphate getting big
you can make this same graph on south america and still be accurate
That’s a good question.
As well as a good answer, yes.
Ummm…but, you didn’t actually answer the question, though. You just went ahead and focused on US imperialism, instead.
I did though. The reason that I single out American imperialism is that there is so much more of it than there is for any other country. Show me a region anywhere on Earth that looks like this for Russia, China, or any other country.
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or exerting dominance over all of their previous vassal states
What does “exerting dominance” mean here exactly? I defined the labels on my map clearly and objectively, either military strikes or troops within borders. I also presented a bunch of specific countries that meet those criteria.
Russia has invaded one single country and has bases in a handful of others, mostly near its borders. How is that comparable to subjugating the entire Middle East through overt force from halfway across the globe? Surely you can see that US imperialism is much more extensive.
Chechnya, Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova is a bit more than one, and that’s objective.
Don’t bother to answer. I’ll see myself out. Nothing to gain from reading red fascists.
Russia has a few military bases in neighboring countries, but it’s very limited to its region of the world. That’s categorically different from plopping down military bases on every continent and toppling overseas governments. They’re militarily irrelevant outside their little sphere of influence.
So imperialism only exists at a certain scale? I was under the impression that it had more to do with a country’s foreign policy objectives, rather than how successful they are at it.
And for the record, forcibly occupying territory in neighboring countries, is a little more than “having a few military bases”. That’s military expansionism…and it’s a cornerstone of imperialistic practice.
So imperialism only exists at a certain scale?
The bigger scale a country does imperialism on, the bigger a concern it is and the more attention should be paid to it, yes. Otherwise, you’re just cherry picking.
The overwhelming majority of imperialism is done by the US, so trying to downplay that and shift the focus is no different from cherry picking some crime done by an immigrant while ignoring the general trend that immigrants tend to commit fewer crimes. This isn’t a difficult concept, lol.
I was under the impression that it had more to do with a country’s foreign policy objectives
Objectives? That’s pretty subjective, isn’t it? It depends entirely on the country’s motivations. So you could potentially look at the decades-long military occupation and plundering of Afghanistan and say, “Well, our objective was to build democracy so it wasn’t imperialism.”
You could assign all sorts of nasty motivations to a country like the DPRK, based on your own presumptions, and be like, “Well, they would try to take over the world even more than the US if they had the capability to, so they’re more imperialist than the US,” even though the US controls half the globe. That’s completely absurd.
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I could do one in Southeast Asia, but no matter where on Earth I did it, the US one would not be greyed out like China in the Middle East. Almost as if the only places other countries are “active” are regions nearby where they have legitimate security interests, while the US is out to conquer and subjugate the entire globe.
