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You have got to be kidding !
Just because it didn't formally annex NATO countries after WW2 doesn't mean it doesn't act as an Empire. There is no national interest in a border war in Ukraine. Only a Globalist Imperial interest.
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Karl Rove:
. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
That is not an empire. That is someone who is being mooched off of.
Reality.
Doesn't care what Karl Rove thinks.
I have to be kidding?
Reverend Wright quotes perennial election buffoon Karl Rove to verify that the USA is an Empire!
THAT is kidding, Reverend.