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But it isn't an empire. The US lost more than it put into Vietnam and gained more by letting Japan rule themselves, if anything the US prospers by being as far as possible from an empire and all the supposed evil capitalists and republican senators know this and are vehement in stopping imperialist activity. Compared to actual empires of the time, nameley the empire of China and it's south east asian vassal states and the soviet empire with it's colonies in Cuba and across africa, it is obvious that the US's self-evident libertarian principles are the key to it's success. The US itself is just a collection of states, all of them them equivalent plucky underdogs sticking it to the evil socialist empires.