A 'Psychic Thrill' for US Empire
The United States began as a Republic seeking to avoid foreign entangling alliances, but the nation has been tempted over the past two centuries into becoming an Empire.
Bruce Fein, who worked in Ronald Reagan’s adminstration, says the momentum toward Empire has accelerated over the past few decades as the United States established more and more overseas military bases and Americans were sold on the quixotic notion that they could shield ...
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McKinley set out to free Cuba from Spain, listened to the American public psyche, and ended up making colonies of Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, as well as Hawaii, and set up a protectorate over Cuba. The hatchings of global empire.