Well, America wasn’t America yet exactly 100 years ago (being a young country and all), and the deaths in the region took place mostly through the British and the French, fair enough, but I feel like they more than made up for it:
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ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ddplf@szmer.info 8 months ago
Well, America wasn’t America yet exactly 100 years ago (being a young country and all)
Huh? What are you talking about?
mhague@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In the context of aggressive foreign policy where we bomb the shit out of people… They are probably referring to how in the 1910s USA was stumbling through an incursion into Mexico to fight rebels / raiders. As we joined WW1, some saw us as a rowdy militia, like cowboys. We had to borrow materiel because we weren’t yet a proper war-machine like European countries were. Exactly 100 years ago that wasn’t the case though. Yet there would still be quite a ways to go until the era of “top 3 air forces” and super carriers patrolling the globe while drones blow ‘terrorists’ to smithereens.
ddplf@szmer.info 8 months ago
I’d say 1898 was the point USA stepped up into big leagues after their victory in the Spanish-American War. But that’s arguable, I also like your point.
However, “exactly 100 years” was 1925, so 7 years after WW1 and unquestionable when USA was absolutely a very serious global power.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“The West” is Europe and its colonies. Funny to assume anyone you don’t understand is brain dead.