Do you think the United States is imperial?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Since the Quasi-War and the attacks on the Barbary pirates, the United States has acted to protect and serve the interests of multinational corporations, wealthy donors and international financial institutions. This has meant the toppling of elected governments to establish friendly puppet dictators, promoting trade agreements which exploit foreign land and labor, back governments with horrific human rights situations in the interests of securing natural resources, American corporations effectively controlling foreign governments (United Fruit in Guatemala being the paramount example, Coca-Cola in Colombia another), and using soft power to extend its tentacles across the world for the benefit of its plutocratic masters--it's scary how little attention was given to Biden's son getting a slot on a major Ukrainian gas company right after the vice president visited Kiev, or the vested interests that investors have in toppling Venezuela's democracy and seeing their state oil company divided between the highest bidders.

So yeah, I guess you could say the United States is an imperial power. Not that the other great powers are any better.