Comments by "Frederick Miles" (@frederickmiles8815) on "None of You Understood Black Panther...(2018)" video.

I think the film would have been better if Killmonger leaned in more to the slave trade discussion - what if Wakanda worked and built their wealth as a wholesaler in the human trafficking industry: Arab and Transatlantic slave trade (like an amalgamation of the: Mali, Akan, Kongo, Bornu, and the north African wholesale slavers like Banu, Hafsids, Marinids) and that was his main driver, pure revenge. His leap into i want to have an empire at the end was heavy handed and kind of silly.
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@bdott1538 What form of American imperialism would have shaped his feelings - he served in multiple failed nation building campaigns? Its a lazy and emotional shallow ending - a marvel ending, pop'ish - it fails to live to first and second acts.
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@bdott1538 Yes and no - our global bases are paid for by nation where they reside outside a couple in Iraq (they are broke asf); those countries pay us in return for protection (they dont need a military budget). Or they want to partner with us in order to adopt maneuver doctrine and our weaponry (like Poland is doing right now). Our national debt is the pristine collateral used to underpin global margin - for instance if you are a sovereign nation and you want collateral that is highly liquid and on par with the global world reserve currency you show up the treasury's FOMC and try and purchase US debt. You can then make cash off coupon, use it in repo in support of margin (liquidity) to spend domestically, and also lend out that same security. I work in banking, army officer 3 tours served - ask me anything you would like if your curious to how we rule the world. Easiest way to explain it: cleanest dirty shirt and decentralization (usually the inverse to what people think). Also Killmonger is presented as an operator, ODA guy / 18 series who becomes a mercenary after his time is up (building a network to get his revenge). His goes from cunning and super smart to a moustache twirling villain real quick once he beat T'challa's ass. I just wished they built him up, did like a slow burn and not kill him off.
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