Re:hypocrisy? (Score 1)

Every single country? That's sad. Being the imperial power is so expensive it leads slowly but inexorably to finacial disaster. I'd rather be Sweden, or Norway, some advanced country but one that didn't have to field huge navies and armies and spend vast sums to project power around the world. All empires eventually exhaust themselves. It happened to the British, to the Romans, etc. etc. It will happen to us. There is nothing we can do about it of course. lfen