What are you talking about? There was just a bunch of empty land that was ours by divine right. The people who lived there shouldn’t’ve gotten in our way about it /s
The 19th Century expansionism was sort of tempered by the racists though – e.g. the political jackasses from back then, like John C. Calhoun, rejected annexing Mexico in its entirety after the Mexican-American War because they didn’t want to integrate non-white Mexicans into the US.
Unlike the yuropeean powers, USA is still pretty overt in its colonialism to this day. Has any other country invaded a non-neighbor in the past 40 years?
How are we defining ‘invaded’? Because even at present, if we take a strict definition, then only the Iraq War is on the US’s record, though depending on how this fucking nonsense with Iran goes, we may have to add that as well. If we take a ‘loose’ definition including interventions in civil wars, then most of the old European powers have been still invading non-neighbors these past 40 years.
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Manifest Destiny too tbf.
What are you talking about? There was just a bunch of empty land that was ours by divine right. The people who lived there shouldn’t’ve gotten in our way about it /s
The 19th Century expansionism was sort of tempered by the racists though – e.g. the political jackasses from back then, like John C. Calhoun, rejected annexing Mexico in its entirety after the Mexican-American War because they didn’t want to integrate non-white Mexicans into the US.
Unlike the yuropeean powers, USA is still pretty overt in its colonialism to this day. Has any other country invaded a non-neighbor in the past 40 years?
It’s only colonialism if it’s not a neighbor?
How are we defining ‘invaded’? Because even at present, if we take a strict definition, then only the Iraq War is on the US’s record, though depending on how this fucking nonsense with Iran goes, we may have to add that as well. If we take a ‘loose’ definition including interventions in civil wars, then most of the old European powers have been still invading non-neighbors these past 40 years.
Don’t forget Afghanistan
The Northern Alliance had been in a civil war with the Taliban, a catspaw for Pakistan, for the past, what, 8 years at that point?