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Don_DickleM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months ago

Explain 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?

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Explain 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_DickleM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months ago
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  • @Zarxrax@lemmy.world
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    76•8 months ago

    You mean other than from the Native Americans?

    • @AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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      67•8 months ago

      And Hawaii?

      • tate
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        8 months ago

        And Mexico. And Spain. And even Britain (in the pacific northwest).

        ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.

        • @grue@lemmy.world
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          11•8 months ago

          ETA: And Samoa, Philippines, Cuba, Guam, etc.

          To be fair, most of those were also “Spain” at the time.

        • The Dark Lord ☑️
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          Also Britain in the Canadian colonies in 1812.

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          and literally the entirety of south america, sans like one or two countries

          • tate
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            I don’t know of the US ever occupying or controlling (explicitly) a south american country.

            • ☂️-
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              then you should study it a little bit closer. or at all.

      • @devfuuu@lemmy.world
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        30•8 months ago

        And all the proxy wars on the middle eats.

        • Rhynoplaz
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          21•8 months ago

          Around here we call the middle eats “lunch”.

      • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        They were native, they just didn’t know they were American yet.

        • @beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
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          2•8 months ago

          Fortunately, they were lethally informed.

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