Worst Empire Ever
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes, ex of Como Park, emails:
President Trump is threatening to pull US troops out of Italy because they weren’t there when we needed them to help us in Iran. It’s the right act for the wrong reason.”Tribute” is a payment from the conquered countries to the Imperial conqueror, an act of submission. Mongol Horde, Chinese Dynasty, Aztecs, Romans … they all did it.
If the United States was any kind of Imperial power, money would be flowing from the rest of the world to us; but instead money flows from us to them in the form of military aid and welfare. Instead of them paying tribute to us, we are paying tribute to them.
Either we are the Conqueror or we are the Conquered. I prefer the former and we ought to start acting like it. Pull the US out of our subservient role in UN, WHO, NATO, and NAFTA. End foreign welfare payments.
Notify England, Spain, Germany and Italy that we are no longer leasing our bases while giving them rights to deny our use, but instead they are gifting that land to us in exchange for our continued troop deployments there.
Then we can talk about Greenland.
Joe Doakes
If we were an empire – like the British, Roman, Napoleonic or Alexandrian ones – the armies of our various cliens (let’s call ’em “vassals”) would be parts of our military. The Romans had a word for it – “auxiliaries”.
