As the US celebrates its 250th, it has begun to resemble the decadent Spanish Empire it replaced: producing nothing while collecting rents, sacrificing its interior to enrich a bloated elite, and embracing exclusionary nationalism to exploit its underclass.
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Not really. They lost most of the empire in the early C19 then spent the next century+ murdering each other until Franco was the last man standing