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-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.
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.