Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-square42fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squareZarxrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYou mean other than from the Native Americans?
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAnd all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAround here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoAnd Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest). ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
minus-squareThe Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAlso Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year ago ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc. To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoand literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThey were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
minus-squarebeebarfbadger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoFortunately, they were lethally informed.
You mean other than from the Native Americans?
And Hawaii?
And all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
Around here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
And Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).
ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
Also Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
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.
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They were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
Fortunately, they were lethally informed.