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[Demstud]

28. Also, "Empire" refers to more than simply military occupation.

Though our military actively operates in over 100 different nations, we've directly caused regime change in 2 middle eastern countries in a decade, created the nation of Israel and made it the most powerful country in the Middle East, and been involved in other major regime changes, our economic empire is more far reaching than any other in the history of the world. The U.S. dollar is the primary currency on the world market, U.S. companies change and control the economies of many other nations, and just look at the far reaching global effects our domestic mortgage crises has had.