Empires must receive the benefits of their own imperialism or the costs of empire become impossible to service. And yet, American Elite have made clear that the US acting in its own interests would be evil, as the US exists to defend the "Liberal World Order".
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What the fuck is this "Liberal World Order" exactly? It is world where no Empire is allowed to act in its own interests, where only "private" market actors are allowed to act in their own interests, where States are barred from subordinating the interests of now global capital.

Capital cannot assert itself over States directly without commandeering the force of an even more powerful State. So to dominate the world, the capitalist elite must conspire to subvert the most powerful State into an imperialism on its behalf. I call this subversion "liberalism"

After WW2, the US economy was HALF of the world economy & were in an amazing geostrategic position with the world's best navy commanding the oceans in between them & their rivals. They were ready to be milked & had just developed the greatest propaganda weapon in history, the TV.

At the dawn of US hegemony, Capital had a clear run at world domination. The strategy was clear, leverage US imperial dominance to integrate the world into a globalized marketplace in which no State would be powerful enough to subordinate Capital to their geostrategic interests.