re: Why don’t powerful nations conquer other nations anymore?

Banks still do. China is buying politicians and land and stealing proprietary secrets and yet the countries still heavily trade with them.

Bring your factories here. We will give you near slave labor and no worries about extremely expensive environmental protections because we dont give a shite.

They rip off our companies trade secrets and make knock offs to sell all over the world. Just think if a country did that here in the USA what would happen to them. And yet our politicians from the left and right want to trade heavily with them.

Its the down fall of a democracy/republic that allows outside influences to have more power than inside benefactors.

Because what’s the point? Why the hell would we want Mexico? They’re already invading us why help them out

We conquered and occupied Afghanistan for a few years before we left. We still install puppet leaders that do our bidding. They may as well be conquered nations.

We do LINK

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We should have gone in and crushed Mexico after the Kiki Camarena torture and murder. The CIA did some unbelievably fricked up stuff to that guy before they killed him.

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FIFY

we no longer accumulate wealth with guns and swords. we use money for shite now


except for oil

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We could take Mexico and Canada

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Mexico?

Not no but “Hell No!”

Canada?

Meh, Sorta Want.



I’d let California go and take the Western half of Canada and the Maritimes.

The American security guarantee to our trading partners, largely. Wars are fought still outside of that trading umbrella. The most violent modern wars are things like the 2nd Congolese civil war that barely register as a blip to the West's interests, where almost 4 million people died, or the Sudanese civil war with 2 million dead. Once we found there was oil to be exploited there, the war ended in a hurry.

China is quickly conquering Africa and slowly conquering Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the US.