here's a foreign policy: all countries outside of our sphere of influence and without a scary or committed enough overlord are subject to unilateral, arbitrary plunder
spending a trillion dollars to knock over a third-world shithole and then hang around in it for a decade accomplishing nothing isn't exactly propagating hegemony
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Don't disagree with that statement based on the results it creates, but this notion of international liberalism goes all the way back to anti-Federalist pleas for American intervention in the French Revolution.
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Liberalism is literally a religion that is pursued fanatically and with suicidal abandon.
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but if we really wanted to convert people to our religion by the sword we could be *doing* that
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put together the liberal democracy catechism, teach it to the entire country for years, anyone who doesn't respect the begotten not made natural rights etc gets burned at the stake
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But this tactic betrays liberalism. People have to WANT it, and the American mistake is assuming people do.
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Key thing about hegemony, at least as Baudrillard seemed to describe it -- was that the agents who seemingly had power served the idea rather than inflicted it. They weren't the architects anymore, just the subjects dispossessed by their own mismanagement.
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