Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
1/2 @clemmowjoe. The British Empire used to like to claim much the same. But it was still an empire. Surely an empire is defined by the way in which territory was obtained, and the centralisation in the Imperial metropolis (in this case Washington DC) of significant powers. — PolitiTweet.org
Joe Clemmow @ClemmowJoe
@ClarkeMicah You can call the western expansion colonial, but the violent subjugation of other peoples and resource… https://t.co/9SzOSGQgHw