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Siege warfare tactics are becoming the norm for the empire. They used it on Assange, they're using it on Manning, they're using it on Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. When you've got all the power and control all the resources, you can afford to take your time with your violence.
This slow, boa constrictor siege warfare style allows you to look like the good guy, even when you're being as tyrannical or murdering as many as you would with overt violence. Sanctions allow you to deliberately target civilians with deadly force and it gets looked at as fine.
For this reason I'm starting to see these economic siege tactics as worse than overt violence, because at least with overt violence you have to stand before the public and own what you did. Now they can kill civilians just as dead as they can with bombs, and nobody even notices.
It's just like how financial abuse gets a lot less interest and attention from society than physical or psychological abuse, even though it can be just as painful and imprisoning as the others and almost always accompanies other forms of abuse. It's an invisible form of violence.
The larger the empire grows, the stronger its global economic and resource control becomes. This is why you always see the US-centralized power alliance bullying other countries into joining the blob or collapsing. The bigger the blob gets, the stronger its siege warfare engine.
