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A comment on Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea. Parent comment

Re:Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea by michaelcampbell on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:32AM (#24353650)
What has the US invaded and taken as part of its own country?
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Re:Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea by hchz on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:50AM (#24353820)
Puerto Rico

Texas (invaded by Americans and annexed)

Guam

Hawaii (USMC supported coup by European and American businessmen)

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Re:Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea by artofgo on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:58AM (#24354473)
Technically, Puerto Rico and Guam were already invaded by Spain before it was handed over to the US in 1898. With Texas, I believe it won its war of independence against Mexico and later annexed by the US (1835). If you're going to go back that far they US "invasions" is probably fairly tame compared to other countries of that time period.
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Re:Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea by xref on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:09PM (#24354588)
US interests overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, and personally I believe a day of national reckoning over that is still inevitable.

However people using it to justify Russia annexing Crimea in 2014 strains credulity.

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Re:Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea by luckylion on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:50AM (#24353819)
You'll notice that the comment I replied to complained about invasions, not annexations. Something the US does more regularly than electing a new president.

Other than that, the US has been annexing little recently, but in history quite a bit.

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