Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoExplain like I am a moron. If the US is such apparently a badass super power it has never tried to take over another country to expand its influence and status?message-squaremessage-square40linkfedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down114
arrow-up138arrow-down1message-squareExplain like I am a moron. If the US is such apparently a badass super power it has never tried to take over another country to expand its influence and status?Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square40linkfedilink
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51arrow-down2·2 years agoAnd Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest). ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years ago ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc. To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
minus-squareThe Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·2 years agoAlso Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down3·2 years agoAnd all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·2 years agoAround here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·2 years agoThey were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
minus-squarebeebarfbadger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoFortunately, they were lethally informed.
And Hawaii?
And Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).
ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
Also Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
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I don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.
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And all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
Around here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
They were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
Fortunately, they were lethally informed.