re: The Rise and Fall of Nations (1000-2025)

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And by 1865 we had the most powerful military on earth but voluntarily demobilized at the end of our civil war.

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It seriously never occurred to me that we could have gone south and taken Mexico at the end of the US Civil War.

Or north to take Canada, but GB would have had something to say about that.

Incorporating Mexico into the US would have initially been challenging but by now it would have been a win.