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-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 · 2 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·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-up9·2 months ago ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc. To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoAnd all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoAround here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThey were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
minus-squarebeebarfbadger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoFortunately, they were lethally informed.
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.