Original sentence: And they argue that the American Empire routinely relies on "governing surrogates" namely governments which would collapse without American support.Proponents of the empire view claim that the United States has over 737 American military bases in more than 130 countries (in fact there are only about three dozen foreign countries with American military bases as of 2005)
Edited sentence: Estimates for the number of people killed around the world by American bombs since the Second World War vary, but are generally in the hundreds of thousands.Proponents of the empire view also argue that the American Empire routinely relies on "governing surrogates" namely governments which would collapse without American support.Proponents of the empire view point to the over 700 American military bases on every continent except Antarctica as of 2005 and the fact that the US has bombed over 20 different countries after the Second World War