Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-square43fedilinkarrow-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_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoAnd Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest). ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months 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 months agoAlso Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoand literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agothen you should study it a little bit closer. or at all.
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.