I think you are definitely right, I was being quick in my speaking and not specific. The era of Jim Crow is over, they are better at smoothing that over these days with economic and cultural methods like you described.
The conservatives definitely want to return to “spheres of influence” style geopolitics, where regional powers have more direct control over their immediate sphere but respect the spheres of other regional powers. This is why they may criticize war in Ukraine or Palestine while cheering on “dealing with the border issue” with Mexico and getting tens of thousands of troops to militarize the border. Both are acts of imperialist aggression that any honest anti-imperialist would oppose - but they oppose one yet support the other in a way that seems incoherent to us with more internationalist tendencies.
Their change has only been in the size of the sphere. They used to think Eurasia was within their sphere of influence, but no longer believe that to be true. So they are backing off to respect Russia and China’s sphere.
Yes one of the fundamental laws of this universe is the drive towards stability. America is transforming back into a more stable (but also more obvious) form of imperialism.
I think you are definitely right, I was being quick in my speaking and not specific. The era of Jim Crow is over, they are better at smoothing that over these days with economic and cultural methods like you described.
The conservatives definitely want to return to “spheres of influence” style geopolitics, where regional powers have more direct control over their immediate sphere but respect the spheres of other regional powers. This is why they may criticize war in Ukraine or Palestine while cheering on “dealing with the border issue” with Mexico and getting tens of thousands of troops to militarize the border. Both are acts of imperialist aggression that any honest anti-imperialist would oppose - but they oppose one yet support the other in a way that seems incoherent to us with more internationalist tendencies.
Their change has only been in the size of the sphere. They used to think Eurasia was within their sphere of influence, but no longer believe that to be true. So they are backing off to respect Russia and China’s sphere.
Yes one of the fundamental laws of this universe is the drive towards stability. America is transforming back into a more stable (but also more obvious) form of imperialism.