Is It Possible to Create an Empire in the Modern Day?

Is it possible to create an empire in the modern day? How were empires formed in the first place? If it is formed, do people form for it or support it? We should not expect any such change coming in from the as never. That is always going to be a political decision. I'm sure there are very good people, very nationalistic, patriotic people and all that. But their function is to carry out orders and not provide any leadership. This is a question by a bidgit, a bidgit with te etch at the end.