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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Aug 2021

    One of the lessons of the last century is that military imperialism (as against, say, economic or cultural imperialism) is hard to sustain because an imperial center will inevitably have less stakes in a long fight then the various factions who actually live in the hinterland

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      1. mspaint skull‏ @WordOfZac 14 Aug 2021
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        When an empire stops expanding it dies

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      1. Ellston Logan‏ @EllstonLogan 14 Aug 2021
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        Another lesson is that an imperial power will always be resented by the citizens of the colony, and considerable prestige will accrue to whichever military power has made the greatest sacrifices to resist the reach of empire. In this case, the Taliban.

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      2. Michael Slavitch  🇨🇦 🇺🇦‏ @SlavitchMichael 14 Aug 2021
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        This has been true since Roman times.

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      3. Michael Slavitch  🇨🇦 🇺🇦‏ @SlavitchMichael 14 Aug 2021
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        I mean, like, Britain.

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      1. Kevin Lord Barry | B2B Ads Guy‏ @kevinwlordbarry 14 Aug 2021
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        Machiavelli has a whole chapter on this in the prince with that same takeaway. He says you have to colonize a land if you want to rule it, so your people have a real stake in it.

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      1. Kevin Navarro‏ @KevinPNavarro 14 Aug 2021
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        I’ve never heard of “cultural imperialism” before. Would schools trying to “Americanize” Native American children be an example of that?

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      2. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW 14 Aug 2021
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        Has anyone written about the failure of Reconstruction through an anti-imperial lens?

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      3. Morbius Fan Account  🇺🇦 🍄 🐢 ♋‏ @JumpDudeTslaQ 14 Aug 2021
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        The union won the civil war and lost the peace in the exact same way as we did in the Iraq war

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      1. Sue K‏ @suethamom 14 Aug 2021
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        Wasn’t this the lesson from Vietnam? We still haven’t learned it. We don’t seem to learn many lessons from the pandemic. I’m afraid we’re never going to learn this lesson about imperialism…

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      1. America through the Looking Glass‏ @FDRisGone 14 Aug 2021
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        We should all read Kipling's White Man's Burden again.

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