Ideology
The members of The Liberators, and the countries supporting them, have varying reasons for attacking the United States, but are all against the USA in one way or another. Their reasons range from the Colonel's hatred of the United States and his belief that their plans must be curtailed to the Chinese, Russians, French, Arabs, and North Koreans, who desire to stop further pre-emptive strikes, or Black Widow's belief that the United States has turned her country into a land full of "prostitutes and gangsters". Loki is the singular exception; he joins forces with the Liberators not out of any particular animosity towards the United States, but out of a simple desire to fulfil his role as the Lord of Mischief.
The Liberators (especially the Colonel) allege that the USA is a parallel to the Roman Empire. Coinciding with the conclusions of Niall Ferguson's work, they believe the USA to be an American Empire, and describe it as the "new Roman Empire".
Read more about this topic: Liberators (comics)
Famous quotes containing the word ideology:
“We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siècle. What holds humanity together today is the denial of what the human race has in common.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
“The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty—of the indefinite expansion of possibility.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)