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But yet, no imperialism occurred?

It did, you just must have a funny definition of imperialism, or don't actually know what happened

post ww2 america does not do imperialism in the traditional sense but cultural empiralism

Oh invading countries under false pretenses and bombing thousands of children is "cultural"?

That's not empiralism and merely used to do the cultural empiralism

the "domino theory" was borne of fear of losing western capitalist hegemony...