Podcaster Hasan Piker addressed the Yale Political Union debate on Tuesday and harshly criticized American foreign policy. <\/p>\n
HASAN PIKER: The fruits of imperialism were always immoral. Now, they are obviously rotten. I don’t know how else to put it. The American empire is fading fast, regardless of what we resolve here today. And I’m not just saying that so that I have an upper hand in this conversation. No matter what we say here, the American empire is going to inevitably fall. But, I think, as Mao Zedong himself said earlier, there is a power within the American people to change the nature of this decline. He had a lot more confidence in the American labor class than many Americans do today, I’ll tell you that much. I believe that we are living through a strange and radicalizing time for millions of Americans. And I’ve seen that with my own two eyes. I’ve gone to protests all around the world, tasted the tear gas of different countries. And I’ve seen Barbaras and Debras, aged 75 and above, yelling at ICE agents in Minneapolis. The contradictions have worsened, and they are also restless. They also want that change. People intuitively understand that there is another way for the United States to exist in the world, a way in which we’re not constantly exploiting people, deciding other countries’ futures for them, or, say, blockading their seas, because they just completely embarrassed us politically, like in the case of Cuba, holding on to old grudges for no reason as we starve economically and literally. An island nation that happens to be 90 miles off of our coastline, where 10 million people live. And that’s happening on autopilot. It’s happening even if you give no consent to that whatsoever. But we can change that. Once you see the cruelty of American empire, it’s quite difficult to unsee it. And I do think American people are seeing it for the first time ever. And they know… And they know that we are getting a raw deal. The super profits that we have enjoyed are coming to an end. And our debt to humanity requires negotiating a new deal, a real, equal world peace. Empires never die quietly, and we must end the American empire regardless. But we must manage the retreat of a superpower from the world stage. This is a challenge for our time. Actually, this is THE challenge for our time. Because if we do not do this, then the American empire will come to an end in a much more violent way. A curse on future generations that we must avoid at all costs. Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n