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-squarejared@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·13 days agoDo military bases count?
minus-squarelettruthout@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·13 days agoYeah, why go through the trouble of installing a puppet government when we can offer “assistance” with a military base? How many hundred bases are there around the world now? And have any been decommissioned ever?
Do military bases count?
Yeah, why go through the trouble of installing a puppet government when we can offer “assistance” with a military base? How many hundred bases are there around the world now? And have any been decommissioned ever?