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-square35fedilinkarrow-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 · 13 days agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squareZarxrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59arrow-down1·13 days agoYou mean other than from the Native Americans?
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down2·13 days agoAnd Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).
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-squareThe Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·13 days agoAlso Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down2·13 days agoAnd all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·13 days agoAround here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·13 days 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.