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> Did the US? I would argue it’s been going on for 80 years, in tandem with the rise of the military industrial complex.

That's pretty fast, historically.

> But the US was never really an empire in the traditional sense, no?

Sure it was/is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism

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