Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 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-square41fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareZarxrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoYou mean other than from the Native Americans?
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThey were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
minus-squarebeebarfbadger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoFortunately, they were lethally informed.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAnd all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAround here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoAnd Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest). ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
minus-squareThe Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAlso Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc. To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoand literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.
You mean other than from the Native Americans?
And Hawaii?
They were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.
Fortunately, they were lethally informed.
And all the proxy wars on the middle eats.
Around here we call the middle eats “lunch”.
And Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).
ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.
Also Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.
To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.
and literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries
I don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.