I would say that there are others that pose a significant barrier to the US complete control of the world

what, tribes?

collective national alliances

aboriginies?

we have run on mutually assured destruction for so long we don't know how to function without it... and the batshit crazy extremists wanting to burn it all to the ground are threatning that

fuck that

we thrive on an external threat

we fucking create them

it powers our war industrial complex

we have turned the middle east into the war-industrial complex zone

thing is

it will always be a zone for oil and war

always

if we were really able to take over the world with no difficulty, why haven't we done it yet

ya nuclear bombs, whst do we create oh ya proxy wars

the western alliance and even russia both work together for proxy wars

it's like everyone in the room negoiating is holding a live grenade with the pin pulled out as the default tactic

of course we don't take over the world yet

our fucking propaganda relies on people thinking we aren't power hungry

we have to come up with excuses

we create our own fucking enemies

we have always created terrorist organizations

the governments can't overpower the citizens

why the fuck not

they do it already

because there are too many

with propaganda

media control

they divide and conquer

why are our two parties so different but we always tend to agree on foreign policy

@Gilgameshholy shit the world is 1984!!!

and when we don't agree on foreign policy there is a sudden attack that makes us all suddenly agree

pearl harbor, 9/11

that is the social credit score @Archon

it'll happen anyway

you forgot every iraq

and vietnam

and WW1

and WW2

this is what the war industrial complex means

we have faked problems to go to war