Message from @RMS_Gigantic
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Venezuela's gone under, and Panama and Ecuador use the US dollar as their official currencies, so if Colombia just says the word when their ~~troops~~ bureaucrats are poised....
Guyana's got a population sink that feeds directly to the US, last I heard
~~Perfect, we can send them back so that they can demand a referendum on US annexation, Republic of Texas style~~
I have a book, brought up before on this discord, about potential and proposed states where the author actually advocated for that.
Partly human rights, partly environmentalism, partly because it's *right next to Venezuela's oil reserves* and partly because NASA can get an easier liftoff with a launchpad closer to the Equator
And who's going to keep the population is check?
Or make sure they don't flood the US?
Or bring their living standard up to US standards?
Private companies on that last point
But that bit about the NASA launch site and space in general is part of why the US is focused on getting closer ties with Brazil
Oh yeah, let's create another Banana republic. Bring back the United Fruit Company!
Well private companies are a huge part of the US standard of living
From Wal-Mart to McDonald's
Dirt cheap cost of living
You think they don't already exist down there?
I'm talking over a century of shoddy construction and infrastructure, as well as a populace who is engrained with the idea that gov't corruption is just the default position to be taken
Well then step 1 is improving infrastructure, and the current US administration is considering that a vital point
Granted, South America's position is far trickier with the rainforests or whatnot
@RMS_Gigantic hello my fellow American imperialist
Or.... don't be a retard and go on colonizing sprees in Central America?
What is your obsession with Guyana?
French Guiana specifically, because its national capital is outside of the Americas
Half the Caribbean is made of colonies.
Fuckin' ruins OAS maps, I tell you what
Aye, and ideally they, too, should have capitals also in the Americas
Hell, I consider those regions small fries compared to Canada, which is fucking massive and has a foreign head of state
Who cares where their capital is?
Self-determination and an ability to participate in hemispheric issues, I'd say
@Deleted User Greetings! How are you furthering the strategic goal of Manifest Destiny this fine day?
It's this line of thinking that got us into shit like Afghanistan
Thank god McCain isn't around anymore to spout this lol
Afghanistan's squarely Old World, and like the Old World nations, they're 1) prone to warring against themselves and 2) to my view, not the US's problem
or the problem of any of the other members of the OAS
aside from, well, the OAS members that are also members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, like Canada and Belize
I had to look up what the hell the OAS is
Looks like another international welfare scam
It might best be described as a UN, but with less teeth and only in the Americas
So irrelevant that the only debate is whether they're just mostly, or flat out entirely, useless
which to my mind makes them a fine international organization