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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Explain 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?

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Explain 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 · 8 months ago
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    And Hawaii?

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      And Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).

      ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.

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        ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.

        To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.

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        Also Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.

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        and literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries

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          I don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.

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            then you should study it a little bit closer. or at all.

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      And all the proxy wars on the middle eats.

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        Around here we call the middle eats “lunch”.

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      They were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.

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        Fortunately, they were lethally informed.

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