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-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-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-squareThe Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAlso Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
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.
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.
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