What are your thoughts on the American empire--general impressions, expected trajectory(/ies), unexpected attributes or...
automatic-ally asked: What are your thoughts on the American empire--general impressions, expected trajectory(/ies), unexpected attributes or subtleties you wouldn't expect people to pick up on? I don't have a good baseline way to think about it, and it seems like something you'd have a good grasp of.
We never shoulda taken the Philippines. The Caribbean territories we inherited out of the Spanish-American War were worthwhile if only to keep out of the hands of other Euro powers and turn the sea into an American lake.But the Philippines, fuck. Didn’t work as a production center, too late to work as a trade gateway or forward base into Asia, full of ungrateful natives who were somehow fucking papists so you couldn’t even evangelize them, we had to assemble the rest of our Pacific empire just to make them remotely defensible and even then the one time we get in a war with the only possible country who would care about them they get taken over like, immediately.