Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 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-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up136
arrow-up136message-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 · 13 days agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareZarxrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·13 days agoYou mean other than from the Native Americans?
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·edit-213 days agoAnd Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest). ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·13 days ago ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc. To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·13 days agoAnd all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·13 days agoAround here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·13 days agoThey were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
minus-squarebeebarfbadger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoFortunately, they were lethally informed.
You mean other than from the Native Americans?
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.
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.