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-square100@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·3 months agoexpansionism is hard when you are surrounded by two huge oceans
minus-squaresnooggumslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoWe only had one ocean when we bullied Mexico into giving up territory. We took over multiple islands both east and west of the continental US, which are now territoties and the state of Hawaii. So no, oceans didn’t stop us when we rrached both coasts.
expansionism is hard when you are surrounded by two huge oceans
We only had one ocean when we bullied Mexico into giving up territory.
We took over multiple islands both east and west of the continental US, which are now territoties and the state of Hawaii.
So no, oceans didn’t stop us when we rrached both coasts.