Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 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-square42fedilinkarrow-up150
arrow-up150message-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 · 4 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squarebizarroland@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up13·4 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.