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Originally Posted by blender
Even the British empire never had the reach or power of the American Empire. By any measure. As for the ancient empires, they were local empires.
Not sure how they are comparable in any way.
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If you define local as the whole of Europe N Africa, the Middle East or the whole of Asia, most of Russia and the Middle East for several hundred years as opposed to the always contested never certain control of anything beyond its own border for about 50 years, The US (as well as Russia and now China) have the power to destroy things due to technology but as empires go their military might have never translated into the ability to hold anything, the US has never even managed to dominate a land mass as effectively as the USSR let alone the other utterly dominant globally spanning empires of the past, the US has consistently lost war after war from the end of world war two onwards