You mean like the 4 oceans we patrol at the expense of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of aircraft carriers?
>>And I don't need to list the terrible track record that has come out of such 'benovelent imperialism'.
You mean like the expansion of global trade networks under our watch, which has lifted an historic proportion of humanity out of utter poverty within 2 generations, while making almost all other deaths due to war obsolete?
I mean, compared to that, the mistakes we've made seem relatively trivial. It's not like the Brits got anything CLOSE to that kind of return on the far worse brutality they inflicted on far more people than we've ever dreamed of hurting.
>> If you are a great power, you don't want allies of your rival in your neighborhood: imagine if Mexico went communist and started cutting deals with china.
This is a fallacy. The TRULY analogous scenario would be if Brazil was a large power and had amassed a Latin American Treaty Organization that had slowly inched its way northward for the past 30 years. And THEN they'd be inviting Mexico to join their little trade and immigration bloc -- or rather, Mexico would rather be part of a growing, successful trade and immigration bloc while a hostile US was talking about making Baja and Chihuahua the 51st and 52nd states due to their high populations of American tourists and expats who'd bought vacation homes in Cabo, and had already been funding and organizing the 3rd and 6th Redneck Special Tacticool Volunteers militias to make trouble there for the past 7 years.
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>>because America has always thought the entire world is its sphere of influence.
You mean like the 4 oceans we patrol at the expense of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of aircraft carriers?
>>And I don't need to list the terrible track record that has come out of such 'benovelent imperialism'.
You mean like the expansion of global trade networks under our watch, which has lifted an historic proportion of humanity out of utter poverty within 2 generations, while making almost all other deaths due to war obsolete?
I mean, compared to that, the mistakes we've made seem relatively trivial. It's not like the Brits got anything CLOSE to that kind of return on the far worse brutality they inflicted on far more people than we've ever dreamed of hurting.
>> If you are a great power, you don't want allies of your rival in your neighborhood: imagine if Mexico went communist and started cutting deals with china.
This is a fallacy. The TRULY analogous scenario would be if Brazil was a large power and had amassed a Latin American Treaty Organization that had slowly inched its way northward for the past 30 years. And THEN they'd be inviting Mexico to join their little trade and immigration bloc -- or rather, Mexico would rather be part of a growing, successful trade and immigration bloc while a hostile US was talking about making Baja and Chihuahua the 51st and 52nd states due to their high populations of American tourists and expats who'd bought vacation homes in Cabo, and had already been funding and organizing the 3rd and 6th Redneck Special Tacticool Volunteers militias to make trouble there for the past 7 years.
There, FTFY.