here's a foreign policy: if you piss us off we will decapitate your government and leave you to suffer through a generation of strife and turmoil
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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Difference between hegemony and empire is just that.
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