{"id":7551,"date":"2023-06-27T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T12:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:05:26","slug":"us-hegemony-and-its-perils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/us-hegemony-and-its-perils\/","title":{"rendered":"US Hegemony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The US strategically entered WWII and created systems to maintain global dominance, adopting the <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Petrodollar?src=hashtag_click\">#Petrodollar<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> and printing money to finance wars. Involvement in the Ukraine conflict has led to increased investment in the defense industry, with Silicon Valley startups now taking a share of the massive defense budget. However, the US faces the threat of <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Popular_Revolution?src=hashtag_click\">#Popular_Revolution<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> against excessive wealth <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Inequality?src=hashtag_click\">#Inequality<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">. The number of billionaires globally has risen sharply over the past two decades, with the 0.01% owning most financial assets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US strategically entered WWII and created systems to maintain global dominance, adopting the #Petrodollar and printing money to finance wars. Involvement in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}