I liked Buchanan, but he was not electable.
He was a religious and cultural Conservative, and he had no viable path to 270 Electoral Votes.
His Empire book came out 25 years ago.
Buchanan was anti-Free Trade and wanted restricted immigration, but I do not really recall anything else.
From memory, Buchanan objected mostly to the USA being an International Police Force.
The only two countries the USA ever actually governed were Japan and Germany, which we crushed in World War Two.
Thirty years after World War Two, Japan and Germany were the #2 and #3 largest industrial countries in the world, and at peace with the USA.
#1, as you may recall, was the USA.
Ukraine, as you may know, was, and still is, the poorest country in Europe.
The only reason Biden supports them is because hundreds of Democrat politicians and donors have their hand in the cash register.
Corruption is NOT the same thing as Empire.
No.
Buchanan was arguing that the USA had turned into an Empire. And this was before 2001 and the MidEast wars.
Buchanan was opposed to the USA as an Empire.
Buchanan was strongly opposed to NATO expansion. As well as the entire project of the NeoCons in the Mideast, and elsewhere.