When an empire stops expanding it dies
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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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This has been true since Roman times.
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I mean, like, Britain.
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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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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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Has anyone written about the failure of Reconstruction through an anti-imperial lens?
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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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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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We should all read Kipling's White Man's Burden again.
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