It depends on what year, or what paragraph is being talked about.
I hadn't counted on your having such poor reading and comprehension skills.
You must be just pretending.
Nobody could be that stupid, unless it's on purpose.
I'll try to explain.
It's our sole Nuclear Superpower Status at the end of WWII that's being described in that paragraph.
I suppose the article just assumes the reader to know that we did not stay permanently stuck in 1946.
And I "CCPed" the first article that came up in an internet search because I wanted only a quick reference to the fact that we maintain thousands of bases in countries all over the world.
You refuted my post that maintaining thousands of bases around the world might be one example of empire?
Gee, I must have missed your brilliant refutation amid all your misspelled words, overuse of caps, and long single letter chainssssssssssssssssss.
I suppose from time to time you've managed to get some people's goats by using such tactics.
To me it sounds like some tot sticking their fingers in their ears and going "La! La! La!"
Time to let you have the last word, no matter how dumb it might be.
What you CCPed is pathetic and didn't bolster your position one bit. Denigrating my spelling and whatever else you saw fit to impugn, just proves conclusively, that you are incapable of factually refuting me.
I suggest that you read your sniveling post and think about getting some much needed help for your projection complex.