[Don Corleone]

Ongoing for generations now.

[orionrising]

ahh so that is what china is gonna try and get away with in exchange for playing nice with us in korea....

[Moorings]

Not too many countries can handle power and wealth and resist the temptation of subjugating weaker countries. They get the super race mentality and think that all should bow to them.

The U.S. is the only power that did not turn into a colonizing machine, even though it had the power, wealth and influence to do so.