>>8077262Don't take it personally. We usually don't think about Guam or Puerto Rico either except when a hurricane passes through and we have to bail the corrupt Ricans out instead of lettng them be murdered n the streets by the people they're withholding emergency supplies from.
To be fair, America could be doing more to foster integration and advancement among it's various territories. It's just that Americans are so sick of and bankrupted by world wars and global adventurism that most Americans just want to be isolationist. Even if you do decide come out and sing the praises of an exanaive, globally integrated American empire, that's when all the self-loathing anti-american marxists would come out and whine about white supremacy and exploiting indigenous populations. It would be a political headache that our weak, feckless, shortsighted rulers don't want to deal with while they juggle corporate cronyism and insider trading.
I don't think any average American would be opposed to a well kept global empire with cultural and economic ties spanning various hemispheres (including cultural products like streamers). It's just that "the system" doesn't afford us any great visionaries who can make a good, honest, and propagandistically beneficial case for unironic, unabashed imperialism in genunely cooperative territories (or not the middle east) as part of modern American nationalism.
This is usually why inefficiencies in global commerce among American friendly or neutral territories occur. It's mostly due to a lack of awareness and leadership. Our president is literally demented. Our politicians are elected via popularity contest. Nobody can get into office if their reputation isn't spotless because the American people are judgmental children. So tldr it's far easier and quicker for niche obsessed venture capitalists to use private enterprise to form those connections and develop emerging markets than waiting for any sort of overall trend. There just needs to be money, intent, and proper cost benefit analysis for expansion into southeast asia to ensure.
Intent is important, because otherwise a general investor who's going not interested in money rather than market expiration will inevitably default to more surefire arenas ie China. With that said, this isn't financial advice and I don't really know anything about business so take all that with a grain of salt.
