I am always in search of topics that I can offer my readers with the hope it will set them to thinking and in the end respond to my questions and insertions.
I read an article in the American Conservative (that is correct…I read a conservative source) that got me to thinking about the US and what appears to be the beginning of a possible empire….
For instance…….The United States’ State Department recognizes 195 independent countries around the world and of those countries the US has troops operating in 147 of them….
“In the last decade, Green Berets have deployed into 135 of the 195 recognized countries in the world. Successes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Trans-Sahel Africa, the Philippines, the Andean Ridge, the Caribbean, and Central America have resulted in an increasing demand for [Special Forces] around the globe,” reads a statement on the website of U.S. Army Special Forces Command.
The Army’s Green Berets are among the best known of America’s elite forces, but they’re hardly alone. Navy SEALs, Air Force Air Commandos, Army Rangers, Marine Corps Raiders, as well as civil affairs personnel, logisticians, administrators, analysts, and planners, among others, make up U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF). They are the men and women who carry out America’s most difficult and secret military missions. Since 9/11, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has grown in every conceivable way from funding and personnel to global reach and deployments. In 2015, according to Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw, U.S. Special Operations forces deployed to a record-shattering 147 countries – 75% of the nations on the planet, which represents a jump of 145% since the waning days of the Bush administration. On any day of the year, in fact, America’s most elite troops can be found in 70 to 90 nations.
Also we have major deployments elsewhere in the world like Germany, UK, Korea, Japan, etc…….a total of 147 countries…..if my math is correct that is over 75% of the world’s nations have an American troop presence. At the height of the British Empire there was not that many nations that the British troops were involved in…..(check out the article in American Conservative….)
Source: Is Empire Inevitable? | The American Conservative
The US seems to be trying to out do the Romans and the Brits as far as occupation of foreign lands go…..
How long before the world starts calling our involvement for what it appears to be…..Empire building?
The only thing “Inevitable” is the collapse of The American “Empire” — a collapse that is well under way having begun internally and now rapidly spreading outward like a seething cancer consuming every good intention of the original founders along the way.
There are so many ways to approach this….sadly NO one wants to hear what will most likely happen….to them I say…get a copy of the “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire”……the disease is not new….chuq
Not new but sadly inevitable because of the unchangeable factor called “Human Nature.”