[artios]

So if I have it right - we rule them all although we collect no tax from them, exert no governing rule, and make no demands other than trade with us or leave us alone. hmmm. tell me again how we rule them like an empire? Liberal professors are truly pathetic.

[babyface00]

...and we bail most of them out when they screw up and allow themselves to be ruled by totalitarians every couple of decades or have their economies collapse due to their socialist meddling.