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Don_DickleM to Explain Like I'm [email protected]English • 10 months ago

Explain 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?

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Explain 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_DickleM to Explain Like I'm [email protected]English • 10 months ago
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    You mean other than from the Native Americans?

    • @[email protected]
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      67•10 months ago

      And Hawaii?

      • tate
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        And Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).

        ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.

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          11•10 months ago

          ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.

          To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.

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          Also Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.

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          • tate
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            I don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.

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      • @[email protected]
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        And all the proxy wars on the middle eats.

        • Rhynoplaz
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          21•10 months ago

          Around here we call the middle eats “lunch”.

      • @[email protected]
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        They were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.

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          2•10 months ago

          Fortunately, they were lethally informed.

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