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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5295661" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>I keep forgetting, which countries are in our empire?  Which countries are occupied with Americans running everything?  Economic trade with countries isn't the same as controlling them.  Do we control France?  Brazil?  Indonesia?  Japan?  You seem to think outside of the handful you cited the U.S. is the master of all countries on Earth.  Not so.  And I'll remind you when the UK was the world's dominant empire they had troops in many countries controlling them.  The British ran everything.  We on the other hand have developed trade with many countries and our military acts as a policeman ready to come to the aid of countries who have a defensive alliance with us.  That gives us influence.  And we give billions in aid worldwide.  We just aren't the bullies you make us out to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>