The American empire may actually cause disorder, barbarism, and chaos rather than promote peace and order,

By LEV MENAND

The American empire “will almost certainly fail,” Hobsbawm said. “Will the U.S. learn the lesson [of the British Empire] or will it try to maintain an eroding global position by relying on a failing political force and a military force which is insufficient for the present purposes which the current American government claims it is designed?”

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