How true is this?
The topic is "The United States Becomes a World Power".
>>1103465
Monroe doctrine made Latin America Usa's bitch, so territorial expansion and imperial expansion are two different things.
Essentially true on the numbers, questionably true on the motives.
>Americans resisted expansion for two major reasons... [imperialism seemed at odds with republican principles and integration of other peoples seemed like too much work]
This doesn't ring true. Americans had no complaints about the Gadsden purchase or the Mexican-American war. Anti-imperialism wasn't somehow fundamentally a part of America's early psyche. Rather, there were economic motives (or the lack thereof) that prevented the need for extensive imperialism like in the Old World. The US in the time of Manifest Destiny had what amounts to infinite land. Millions and millions of acres - more land than it had people to farm, rather than the reverse as was the problem in most other industrializing countries. What imperialism it exercised, therefore, was not going to be for the purpose of extracting resources (it had plenty of resources already) but to extract capital and manpower.
>>1103465
The reason we become so powerful is because God blessed this country and its people with a sprit of greatness
>>1103526
Which wicked God would bless a nation as vile as the US?
>>1103532
Jelly you live in some god forsaken shithole?
>>1103551
I'm not jealous at all. I just doubt that anyone truly believe that a nation as fundamentally evil and degenerate as the US has any god's blessing, let alone the God's blessing.
>>1103569
Stay jelly
Maybe if your country accepted Jesus as out lord and savior you could live in a first world country
>>1103579
Jesus hates America.
>>1103614
If that was true he wouldn't have made us the most powerful nation the world has ever witnesses
We are Rome times 10
>>1103635
So powerful a bunch of rice farmers with spears beat you handedly. So powerful that a bunch of mountainous goat herders with outdated weapons beat you handedly. So powerful that you declared war on inanimate objects, and lost.
Jesus hates America. That's why Americans are so miserable.
It was productive anday non-expansionist because there was no Central Bank.
It was the best Era of American history.
>>1103649
Not him, but the US set the terms of war in all aspects, including handicapping ourselves. The US wasn't beat in any way except politically.
>>1103649
>So powerful a bunch of rice farmers with spears beat you handedly. So powerful that a bunch of mountainous goat herders with outdated weapons beat you handedly.
>This is what people from shitholes tell themselves
>>1103649
There is not a single country that could ever invade us and win
No country that can match our military might
We could see this world on fire
the world plays by Americas rules and everyone knows it
>>1103649
meme. meme. inability to comprehend abstract concepts. wrong. unclear.
