I think this answers both questions
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Iâm so sorry Dennis, it must have been a computer glitch, I didnât realise who I was dealing with.
The US seeks to control the worlds resources and money supply.
The US has a military greater than the next 10 countries combined and they will use that military to bully, threaten, intimidate and in extreme case eliminate ( Libya) any country that does not go along with the US plan.
Now tell me how is this any different than the goal and means of the Empire from Star Wars
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Sorry Dennis, I should have been more precise. I didnât mean what do you think the US is doing, I meant what do you think the US should be doing?
I have always been a free market guy but when 3 people can accumulate this much wealth then the system is clearly broken,
I canât see pure wealth as a problem. If nobody in the US was legally permitted to become more than comfortably well off, how would that improve your life?
For starters staying out of the affairs of other countries, Domestically turn the Military industrial complex into something productive like Infrastructure projects. Public education here is 100 years outdated and does nothing to prepare kids for the new economy. We have the best, most expensive and least accessible medical system in the world, that has got to change.
Deal with these three things and we will truly be on our way to Making America Great Again
Donât you think that the US military strength has helped maintained the free world firstly against fascism, since then against Soviet communism, and currently against Russian imperialism?
In the first case, its undeniable that Europe would have remained under fascist domination without the deployment of US men and resources in 1944-45.
In the second, its undeniable that the US maintained and won a huge arms race and military deterrent against the USSR, and that the Soviets did not invade western Europe etc. In fact the USSR was so impoverished by the effort and their own misgovernment that the USSR collapsed on its own.
In the third case, the US could do better but most of the other members of NATO are not even trying to pull their weight so hey ho. However, if my freedom depended on either the US or Putin, Iâd go for the US.
Give me an example of Russian Imperialism, Russia today is one third the country is was as the Soviet Union.
When the Soviet Union collapsed so did the reason for NATO and American occupation of Europe, but today NATO and American forces in Europe are far greater then during the Soviet era , at the same time millions of Americans have no affordable access to healthcare, and many places have unsafe drinking water. America needs to start taking care of our own
I am not one of those who favors putting a cap on how much wealth one can accumulate, but I am in favor of enforcement of Anti-Trust laws that would breakup these monopolies
On the education side, Our universities are staffed by Marxist professors that teach kids to hate capitalism and love socialism. They leave college without any idea how to compete and get ahead in a capitalist economy. We are setting the stage for Bolsheviks type take over of our government, which would not be a good thing
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Russian imperialism under Putin has been widely demonstrated -
invasion of Georgia
occupation of Abkhazia, South Ossetia
annexation of Crimea
destabilisation and military invasion of Eastern Ukraine
increasing military support for Syrian regime
Multiple eastern European, Baltic and Balkan countries are either trying to join NATO or to receive additional NATO garrison forces. They donât seem to trust their eastern neighbour.
Yes, many Americans cannot personally afford healthcare, but thatâs because of the ridiculously inefficient and costly healthcare system run in the US. In fact, Iâm sure the US could afford to ensure that its poorest citizens can receive healthcare as well as maintain a massive military - it just chooses not to do so. Meantime, across the entire US population, it looks like life expectancy and various survival rates include the best rates in the world.
Why is the water unsafe?
So basically countries they share boarders with and were part of the Soviet Union,
Some would say itâs more advanced than that - Already ! - Theyâve switched a little bit by âSleight of handâ refer to "Postmodernist - neo Marxism " - Go Youtube 
[Straight âMarxistâ they cannot do - standing on a Pyre of c 200 million bodies from the 20th century alone - but Jeez - youâre absolutely correct ! ]
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I always felt the U.S healthcare industry is run like a business instead of a basic right for human beings. I think we can all agree in places like Canada & Europe that itâs seen as a basic necessity in regards to ones health. Healthy people in a flourishing society just means a more productive economy in my eyes. Obviously I could be wrong and there might be other little things that Iâm not seeing as well.
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We have the same leftist toxicity creeping into the Australasian Universities⌠A degree, a debt and no guarantee of a JobâŚ
The College system in the US is an evil business unto itself⌠Get emâ in Debt⌠Keep emâ in DebtâŚ
Sure your Medical system is using a similar based model⌠How healthy can Americans afford to be?
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Yes, most were previously part of the Soviet Union but remember that the Soviet Union collapsed and the former satellite states became independent. Russia is not the Soviet Union and had no legal entitlement over these other countries. Why excuse them? I canât help but stick to the everyday definition of imperialism - that if you use your military to forcibly enter and occupy and then run someone elseâs country then youâre an imperialist. What else can it be?
I was using WHO figures to support my conclusion. These date from 2015 and say life expectancy in the US is 81.6 (females) and 76.9 (males). I suppose if you add the males and females and average out the combined life expectancy it wonât be far from your quoted number.
My point was that in 2015 the same numbers were worse for Europe - 80.2 (females), 73.2 (males).
If anything has changed in the time period its not down to an increase in defence spending by the US, which is 14% down since 2011. Poor healthcare in the US is down to overall US healthcare policy, which is a shambles.
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That would make the US the most imperialist country the world has ever known,
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US healthcare is a complicated subject and canât be solved with campaign slogans like
"Medicare for All"
Maybe I will start a thread dedicated to this one subject
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