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?

French Guyana's already "colonized"

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

Remove America from all International Organizations.

You'll love HR 193, then

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193/text

Fuck yeah. But more than just the UN

I believe there's an international organization that's just Latin America

if not a couple

And specific countries within Latin America have their own sub-groups and agreements

Well that's cool. Then they don't need another one with us involved.

Behold: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Supranational_American_Bodies.svg/350px-Supranational_American_Bodies.svg.png

Part of the reason Mattis is visiting around these other countries @Fitzydog is because China is skulking around, trying to scoop up the scraps like they're doing to Africa

@Legiondude Too bad.

Yeah, Argentina in particular seemed like it might try to team up with China in the field of space or something to that effect

because the ABC countries dynamic means that whenever one nation draws closer to another nation, the others take a different route

Brazil and Argentina especially

When Brazil was close with the US in the 30's, Argentina drew closer to Britain