Domination

"Our overriding purpose, from the beginning right through to the present day, has been world domination--that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible; and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of our foreign policy of domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump through hoops; the purpose is to facilitate our exploitation of resources. And insofar as any people or states get in the way of our domination, they must be eliminated--or, at the very least, shown the error of their ways."
-Ramsey Clark (December 18, 1927 - April 9, 2021)
Quoted in "Neighbourhood Bully - Ramsey Clark on American Militarism", Derrick Jensen The Sun Magazine, (February 14, 2018)