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Originally Posted by Obadno
LOL compared to who? All the other great powers before (and since) Are far worse than the US ever was. Our experiments with colonialism were tiny and short lived.
If the USA really wanted to be a colonial empire we would have had the Pacific Rim and basically all of Latin America as official US territory's and colonies by 1900. There was literally nobody with the willingness much less power to even attempt to stop it.
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I doubt we had the resources to colonize
all of Latin America..most of which was independent by late 19th century. We fought Spain when they were an empire on decline. Our 'empire' was holding countries hostage economically which eliminated the need for maintaining expensive colonies with restless natives. Which is probably why the US was eager to dump the Philippines.