> On Feb 1, 2016, at 6:30 AM, Knapp <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> . Why not just buy a country from its people? I mean go in and say to everyone in Cuba, we will give each person 20,000$ USD and the top people even more, if they agree to become a state of the United states. Why do the war thing?

The Spanish American war thing was somewhat anomalous.

Most empires simply took the countries they annexed without paying for it. See, for example, Belgium’s colonization of the Congo, or pretty much every European power everywhere they went; or what the US did when it embarked on the great socialist experiment known as ‘opening the west’, which some of our dumber would-be revolutionaries are whinging about now in Oregon.

The US Government embarked on a military campaign to remove the existing landowners, then gave the land away to US citizens. Who are now bitching that they’re not being given MORE land, for free.

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