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Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Infusiestes for American Empire have long scanned the global horizon, looking out for any possible threat to the capital L liberal world order.

Imperial apologists have consistently refused critical reflection, confident that the solution to any problem of empire was simply more imperialism.

The very monsters who they insisted could only be destroyed by an intensified imperialism had, of course, been created in good part by past imperialism.

The Ottoman Empire's dismemberment, Narco wars across Latin America, and support for Afghanistan's Mujahideen are some obvious examples.

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