Well said, Caitlin! You danced adroitly around the central current issue of disinformation bombarding the world, wisely declining to mention the unmentionable (we do understand the price that must be paid for someone in your position transgressing on that one!), yet leaving it open to inference for those with their eyes open - nice!

My only quibble is that what you describe as the American empire is actually the transnational corporate state, of which America is merely one more hollowed out vassal state - just another fake democracy feigning to exercise the sovereignty that was usurped by the transnational banking cartel back in 1913. Ignore the nominal nationality of major banks and corporations, look to the ownership of the majority of their shares to get a clearer view of who it is that owns and runs this transnational empire. This article here attempts to gloss over some of this, yet the research described nails it quite well: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/#ixzz6NTqiyYjI