Do You Think American Imperialism Was Violence?

I wondered if your mom thought of it as violence. In other words, one of the things the podcast keeps coming back to and making clear is that American imperialism is by definition violent. So did she actually call it violence in the early days? Did she see it that way? I would say that they her idea their idea the weathermen were thinking about violence a lot. And what they were thinking about is that all the violence was on the side of the state.