Hasan Piker argues that American interventions in other countries are designed to extract resources for the benefit of corporations and the wealthy rather than the public.

“But we're currently talking about the the you know brazen ways in which America is forcibly extracting the natural resources of Venezuela to turn profit for not the American the average American citizen really but uh for Exon Mobile, Chevron, Sitgo, for Trump's select friends in the pedophilic elite”

The United States is an imperialist power that uses fabricated justifications to target and destabilize countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and Gaza.

“This is just more imperialism. The same thing we did in Venezuela. The same thing we're going to we're doing in Cuba. The same thing we're going to do in uh uh we're doing in Gaza. The same thing we're doing in Iran. This is just more imperialism.”

Progressive intellectuals who fail to achieve domestic policy goals often support foreign color revolutions to project a sense of political relevance.

“So, they say stuff like, "We got free Syria. We got free Iran. We got free Hong Kong." They support all these CIA color revolutions to make up for the fact that they failed to achieve any social change in the United States.”

The British Empire cannot be defined as solely good or bad because it was characterized by complex and contradictory outcomes.

“I mean, one of my main arguments is that it wasn't intrinsically good or intrinsically bad. It was complicated. It was slavery. It was abolition. It was the free press. It was press censorship. It was environmental destruction. It was the birth of environmentalism.”

She believes international law is broken because systems exist to benefit the interests of the imperial West.

“International law has collapsed because these international systems function to prop up the political and economic interests of the imperial west.”