{"id":369451,"date":"2021-11-01T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=220471"},"modified":"2021-11-01T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T08:59:15","slug":"why-the-troubled-u-s-empire-could-quickly-fall-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/01\/why-the-troubled-u-s-empire-could-quickly-fall-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic military-industrial complex were, more than geopolitics, the key drivers of these wars. Empires can die from overreach and sacrificing broadly social goals for the narrow interests of political and economic minorities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/01\/why-the-troubled-u-s-empire-could-quickly-fall-apart\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/01\/why-the-troubled-u-s-empire-could-quickly-fall-apart\/\">Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/01\/why-the-troubled-u-s-empire-could-quickly-fall-apart\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic military-industrial compl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369617,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369451\/revisions\/369617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}