Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 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-square34fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down110
arrow-up128arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareZarxrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59arrow-down1·3 months agoYou mean other than from the Native Americans?
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down2·3 months agoAnd Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months 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-up8arrow-down1·3 months agoAlso Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down2·3 months agoAnd all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·3 months agoAround here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoThey were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
You mean other than from the Native Americans?
And Hawaii?
And Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).
To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
Also Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
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.