It is the 20th century form of empire, run by bankers. Finance and debt, buying and selling of favors. Like the mob, we apply threats of force when necessary, but we think we're smarter than conquerors of the past and prefer to bribe people into the empire. Though eventually the house of lies and paper money it's all based on will collapse, and somebody will call our bluff.
print monopoly money, spread around monopoly money to secure a ruling class in other countries to ensure they continue to use monopoly money for international trade, print even more monopoly money which devalues their reserve. profit. elites win. poors lose.
The only empire in history to have to send tribute to the people it "conquered". Perhaps it is not an empire.
It is the 20th century form of empire, run by bankers. Finance and debt, buying and selling of favors. Like the mob, we apply threats of force when necessary, but we think we're smarter than conquerors of the past and prefer to bribe people into the empire. Though eventually the house of lies and paper money it's all based on will collapse, and somebody will call our bluff.
print monopoly money, spread around monopoly money to secure a ruling class in other countries to ensure they continue to use monopoly money for international trade, print even more monopoly money which devalues their reserve. profit. elites win. poors lose.
Are you counting all the oil the US companies are extracting from Iraq, the conquered land?
Only the Chinese, Russian and French companies got the oil contracts from Iraqi government (besides the Iranians, that is).