and it has an established meaning

Established by whom? The same people who applauds when the US “tortures the planet and the isolates itself from consequences”?

but you require purity of terminology

Am I the only one who understands the propaganda value of terminology around here? Perhaps we are “still spinning our wheels…” but I’d say it’s rather because the propaganda machinery of the status quo is still running rings around us if we even allow them to dictate the meaning of words at us.

Next you’ll be telling me we should also not reject liberal’s definition of things like democracy or justice.

Yes, that is literally how the US defined it in the 1930s.

In the 30s, eh? So why are people here still buying into it now? What else does a pack of imperialist thugs get to define for you?

What they actually were/are is a kind of imperial exceptionalism:

Then that is the term that should be used to describe US policy before WW2.

Something something, don’t use the master’s tools.

You mean… like using a term to describe history specifically invented by perpetrators of historical atrocity to mask said atrocities?

you’re describing anti-imperialism

So you don’t actually know what words mean - that explains a lot.

SUPER easily.

Will this be taking long, then?

No.

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

• USMC Gen. Smedley D. Butler (ret.)

Do tell… does it only count as “isolationism” when you’re not interfering with white countries?

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

• USMC Gen. Smedley D. Butler (ret.)

Do tell… does it only count as “isolationism” when you’re not interfering with white countries?

my brother in Christ,

We are not brothers.

that’s our entire history

Maybe read some of it, then… then you can explain to me how a (supposedly) “isolationist” empire based in the continental Americas manages to have a gigantic naval base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Idiotic take.

The US has never been “isolationist.” And their fake democracy is about just as “efficient” as any other in the (so-called) “liberal democratic” world.