The status quo of the US empire guarantees that there will always be new offenders to imprison, new extremists to bomb, new justifications for blockades, sanctions and apartheid oppression. Every aspect of it creates traumatized people, whose resultant behavior is then cited to justify the existence of the power structure which caused their trauma in the first place.

Reading by Tim Foley. Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-empire-is-a-self-reinforcing