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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by SamReidHughes on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:29PM (#19231206)
The USA's neighbors only became friendly after the USA's military got way more powerful than theirs.

Much of Mexico's territory is de facto controlled by enemies of both Mexico and the USA, and Russia has, or at least is eyeing having, an outpost in the Caribbean right now.

The US used its army directly in the New World at least as recently as 1982, in the invasion of Grenada.

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Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract by UncleEntity on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:17AM (#19232326)
> The US used its army directly in the New World at least as recently as 1982, in the invasion of Grenada.

Or even more recently in '89 down in Panama.

Or in Haiti in '94 -- though that one wasn't necessarily an invasion but the troops were in the air if diplomacy failed.

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