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_Dickle@lemmy.world · 3 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?

bizarroland@fedia.io · 3 months ago

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.