Don_DickleM to Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish • 10 days 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-square43arrow-up151arrow-down114
arrow-up137arrow-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_DickleM to Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish • 10 days agomessage-square43
minus-squaretatelinkfedilinkEnglish50•edit-210 days agoAnd Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest). ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
minus-square@gruelinkEnglish11•10 days ago ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc. To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
minus-squareThe Dark Lord ☑️linkfedilinkEnglish9•10 days agoAlso Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-28 days agoand literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries
minus-squaretatelinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 days agoI don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 days agothen you should study it a little bit closer. or at all.
minus-square@MaggotylinkEnglish2•10 days agoThey were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
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.
and literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries
I don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.
then you should study it a little bit closer. or at all.
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.