It is the effectively announcement by the US Government that our system is changing, that we are now explicitly an empire. We're an empire. So of course, the argument has been made, and perhaps, probably there's some truth to it. The United States has been an empire for a long time, for at least the last 80 years, since 1945. when we emerged victorious from World War II, or maybe even 1918 when the British Empire effectively ended, maybe even 1898 when we get Puerto Rico and then a few years later, Cuba from the Spanish empire. (00:27–00:33)
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Asserts that the U.S. has been an empire since 1945.
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