for the progress of civilization, in the same way, things are the same today, according to william appleman williams, one of the first and most insightful scientists who devoted himself to the study of the american empire is a banal desire to seize lands, markets and build up military power. this is what lies behind the pathetic ranting about the prosperity of freedom and security, the list of terrible deeds of the soldier-democracy is so long that we thought for a long time how to structure it correctly, given that not a single large region on the planet could avoid the american intervention on the territorial principle and let's start first stop hawaii and the caribbean. one of the first us targets was hawaii before joining uncle sam's guests it was an independent archipelago, but washington really liked the location of the state, opened a direct route to east asia. first , a trade agreement was concluded with the king of the hawaiian islands, and then he fell out of favor from 1887. the united states committed states to the coup staged a path and forces. the king was taken out to sign the constit