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-squarebizarroland@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·3 months agoWe weren’t a badass superpower when that happened. We were just in a place where the actual superpowers of the time were unable and unwilling to spend the money needed to defend Mexico from us.
We weren’t a badass superpower when that happened. We were just in a place where the actual superpowers of the time were unable and unwilling to spend the money needed to defend Mexico from us.