America grew from a colony to a superpower in 200 years.
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2:07 Correction: Cuba seceded from the US in 1902.
With over 800 military bases around the globe, the US is easily the most powerful nation on earth. But it wasn’t always this way. The US once played an insignificant role in global affairs. In this 8-minute video, you can see the transformation.
Military budget data: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/
US foreign bases based on David Vine’s book, “Base Nation” http://www.davidvine.net/base-nation.html
Troop numbers: “Total Military Personnel and Dependent End Strength By Service, Regional Area, and Country”. Defense Manpower Data Center. November 7, 2016.
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This video didnt answer the question of the whole concept instead focussing on how america dismantled other countries
I appreciate this documentary but wow…..skipping over so many things.
Thanks vox guys 🙂
God bless America 🇺🇸 🙏
If its an external conflict : Its UK
If its an internal conflict : Its USA
America created their own enemies Al Qaida ISIS Taliban to take down popular governments
All they gotta do is installing dictatorship in free and fair government countries and call it liberation
The thing about the world economy is that it is now dependent on trade. The reason we avoid war nowadays is because if we did fight, both sides would suffer intensively due economic breakdowns, not military ones. So America might be powerful, but if the majority of the world refuses to trade it with it. It will collapse just like other countries.
How? Chattel slavery, robbed citizens of its gold, dropped two atom bombs, began invading smaller nations in turn to make them U.S. dependent. There, I saved you nine minutes.
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I like how americans became the superpower and great video Vox :]
💪РОССИЯ 💪🇷🇺 america🤕😰
Long live the USA!
Now america should buy germany
Everybody has it's rise and fall.
America is very good
I can't imagine a media/news outlet overlooking the fact that the media held a major influence on America going to war with Spain in 1898??
Every empires fall,America is no exception,especially with usury based economy,debt slavery and recently defeat in graveyard of empires Afghanistan,not to mention with federal government staging tragedies like Floyd Chauvin psyop to distract American public
Every country want to be the imperial number 1. Its just USA time… Every century has the boss like Roman empire, Persian, Mongol.
there were 2 mistakes in this video, first mistake is at the start, america doesnt actually spend that much money on military, they only spend as much as china, the others are stuff like medical stuff which dont count, second is at 5:00, when they said that the worlds second largest power is USSR, at the time, USSR was ahead of usa
imagine wiping out an entire race and stole their land
Because Europe was basically a battle royale
Superpower? America is being systematically destroyed by the government .
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