This political cartoon depicts the red and white stripes of the American flag stretching out from 50 stars representing the states in North America, wrapping around the world's other nations and encircling the globe with them.
I think the author's point is that we are putting our influence where it doesn't belong, instead of where it should be, in the United States.
I think it is an interesting way of showing our modern American "imperialism" which isn't strictly the old Imperialism, where new things were annexed into a country. If it was like the old Imperialism the stars would probably stretch over to the other countries. It is just showing that we are involved in other nations, but not taking them over.
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