The new imperialism doesn't look like old-school ground invasions, it looks like multi-front cold wars, starvation sanctions, drone strikes, arming proxy militias, CIA-backed coups, and mass psyops of unprecedented sophistication. Peace activists need to look in this direction.
Imperialism 2.0 is designed to operate so invisibly we don't even notice it's happening. No mass troop deployments, no flag-draped bodies flying home in planes, and (they hope) no potent antiwar movement in response to it.
The more powerful and expansive the empire becomes, the more invisible imperialism can be. In theory it could eventually have so much control that any population which rises up against it can be silently choked off from the entire world economy and starve to death very quickly.
In the new imperialism there are still troops deployed all over the world, but they're there with the "permission" of the puppet regimes they installed and they exist to protect the infrastructure of the invisible imperialism (so it can't be countered with conventional warfare).
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