在所有泛泛而谈的“美利坚帝国”论中，一个事实是美国并不拥有它必须管理的殖民地，因此拥有比英国更大的腾挪自由。
For all the loose talk of an “American empire,” the fact is that the US does not have colonies that it must administer, and thus has more freedom to maneuver than the UK did.