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-square42fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down111
arrow-up136arrow-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 · 13 days agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48arrow-down1·edit-213 days agoAnd Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest). ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
minus-squareThe Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·13 days agoAlso Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·13 days ago ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc. To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
minus-squareumbrellalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 days agoand literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoI don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.
minus-squareumbrellalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days 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.
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.
then you should study it a little bit closer. or at all.