we've all been watching american presidents produce this speech for so long, that maybe it's easy to forget that beyond the rhetoric lies the basis of american foreign policy.

what he's doing is waving around the benefits of american empire and hitting them over the head with it like an anvil. never forget, indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVZWLqkBtf0

his history is largely propaganda, though. well, he's marketing the empire.

you don't believe the advertisements you see on tv, do you?

the doublethink is also impressive.

he talks like this, and then rejects a cold war immediately after. it's remarkable.