@amerika Democracy can't decide whether it wants to be an empire or not, it doesn't seem to like the name and history attached to that... but it will still continue certain policies that an empire would like spreading the ideology it has all around the world and coercing nations into accepting this and resource extraction. Even the take over of companies and trades.
@skells @sim
Democracy gives it not just that power, but a moral justification for doing so: moar equality.