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By any definition of the word, the United States is an empire today. It's huge, it dominates the world, it has its way, nobody's able to challenge it. Whatever it says is good for the world, that's what the world will do. That's not to say that everything it does in the world is bad, but it is to say that it can do whatever it chooses, good or bad, and no one dares say it's bad. The United States has all of those elements of empire, including one that many people don't even think about. And that element is that all empires come to an end. They usually come to an end rather viciously, they fall apart, they're destroyed. And that element, too, is present in the United States. That's what the United States has all of those elements of empire, including one that many people don't even think about. That's what the United States has all of those elements of empire, including one that many people don't even think about.