Name a single great empire in history that got there by isolationism?

>>132087986
Point may have some validity but name a single place like modern America. We litterlaly could live fine on our own if anyplace could.

>>132088402
Ancient Rome had everything but the technology (and they were almost there technologically at some points, including pre-industrial mining logistics on a scale that we've never known before and didn't know again until industrialisation).

They even had the problem of immigration after all their conquests and dominance made very large minorities who wanted citizenship. They even had civil wars during the republic era between conservatives and marxist-like reformers. Hell they even had a UBI for citizens.

Their biggest problem was over-extension, and that's a problem America has solved through culturally allied nations and technology. The biggest threat is isolationist sentiment on the left and right allowing America to show weakness.

There's a story to tell there.

ugh my country is so full of gooks and proxies. sorry everyone else.

>>132087986
Israel.

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>>132089287
you are forgiven. You'll be 50% like us soon enough.

>>132089471
Financial infiltration is still interventionism of another kind try again

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>be me
>Be painter
>Have many nice colours and textures
>Paint many a pictures, big ol' wall huggers
>Fall for the immigration meme
>Fall for the diversity scandal
>Fall for the inclusion regiment
>Fall for the we are one joke
>Realize painters are part of the patriarchy
>Why does red and yellow have to be seperate
>Why can't black and white be friends?
>Paint masterpiece to showcase new paridgm shift in thinking to embrace diversity
>Keep colours seperate on painters board
>Let them mingle and never seperate
>Never fresh paint, just the same paint being mixed together.
>Eventually left with pic related
>Mfw diversity is every colour brown
>Mfw when realize there's no need for other colours now, brown has the ability to make the art world beautiful by itself.
>Mfw when uniqueness was over ratted anyway.
>Mfw when my country is heading to this glorious endgame.

>>132087986

>empire
>isolationism

Well no shit, but the isolationist countries also didn't have to go through imperial decline so it's worth it

>>132087986
Shut up you fucking child.

>>132089773
No they just got BTFO at some random point when a genuine imperial power came along

>>132089787
inshallah london will rise again

>>132089287
cunt i'm a regional australian

pretty sure america did it without women or jews LOL!

>>132087986
China

Uh, China?

>>132090058
>>132090104

You mean the same one that was obliterated by the Mongols who were interventionists or the one that currently is completely hemmed in by the USA's network of post-cold war allies but is nevertheless aggressively putting itself into its neighbours business to promote its own interests

The United States?

>>132090491
Sorry what exactly is isolationist about sending millions of soldiers into Europe and across parts of Asia over the past 100 years? About couping unfriendly governments, funding foreign rebels or states in return for political alignment, and writing the constitutions and laws of other countries as per Japan and the washington consensus?

>>132087986
did tony abbott rape your downs brother?

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>>132090638
You are just tangled in a Web of Freudian defense mechanisms because Australia is China.

The US became great and practiced de facto isolationism until the beginning of the 20th century. Skirmishes with Mexicans didn't do much for changing our culture.
And if you slightly stretch your measures 'nation', the small influx of western Europeans through its first hundred years still hardly affected the society

>>132088852
>isolationist

Don't conflate isolationism with protectionism.

>>132091482
I'm not, America during its isolationist era (before the Cuban revolution against Spain basically) avoided foreign issues as much as possible. After it started getting involved, it rapidly grew in power especially during the first and second world wars.

In all cases America has been fiercely protectionist even to this day on a number of issues, such as agriculture. Protectionism may or may not work, but isolationism does not.