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We're not really an empire
In name, no. In practice, yes.
more like we have an interventionist defence[sic] policy
Defense
and offense. Also, I agree. That policy is bad.
because pearl harbor taught us the world hates our freedom and will attack us unprovoked unless we actively stop shit going down.
Pearl Harbor was provoked by those very same interventionist policies.
I mean the Japanese declared war on us, despite our military superiority, despite mutual peace agreements and years of delicate diplomacy and they did it because we stopped selling them oil because they were starting wars and torturing and enslaving people in their colonies.
Yep. While we were talking about peace we were raping them at the same time. Words and peace agreements don't mean spit if you're still deliberately messing around in their affairs.