Decades ago I learned what hegemony.
The ChiCom’s favorite word to describe America’actions, whenever we stood for anything that was against their communism was:
Hegemony!
Whenever an outside writer or a Freeper uses the word hegemony to describe any action of America against any communist or jihadist country, that is a good indicator that we have a troll trolling against us.
Hegemony is not a term/word that probably 99/99% of us learn or use in life.
Perhaps because the word is so commonly misused. Liberals, notorious for seeking hegemony over all things, are quick to disparage the influence of freedom as the evil hegemony of capitalism.