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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4496909" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>You don&#039;t understand what an empire is.&nbsp; The British Empire was the largest in history.&nbsp; Being the strongest, richest country in history isn&#039;t because we conquered a bunch of other countries, taking their wealth, controlling their people.&nbsp; That you can&#039;t name countries we&#039;ve conquered and controlled shows you spout things about the U.S. without any knowledge of what you&#039;re talking about.&nbsp; The closest we were to being a colonial power was defeating Spain in the late 1800&#039;s and taking over its possessions.&nbsp; Which we&#039;ve either gotten out of like the Philippines or have made into territories whose residents are American citizens like Guam, Saipan, and Puerto Rico.&nbsp; As well as American Samoa.&nbsp; These are tiny places in comparison to the British Empire which at its height controlled India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Burma(now Myanmar), Rhodesia(now Zimbabwe), Sudan, Egypt, Palestine(now Israel), Malaysia, British Honduras(now Belize), Greece, Ireland, Singapore and a number of small territories.&nbsp; Are you able to understand the difference between an empire and developing markets for trade with a large military making sure trade routes stay open?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 4496909, member: 24302"] You don't understand what an empire is. The British Empire was the largest in history. Being the strongest, richest country in history isn't because we conquered a bunch of other countries, taking their wealth, controlling their people. That you can't name countries we've conquered and controlled shows you spout things about the U.S. without any knowledge of what you're talking about. The closest we were to being a colonial power was defeating Spain in the late 1800's and taking over its possessions. Which we've either gotten out of like the Philippines or have made into territories whose residents are American citizens like Guam, Saipan, and Puerto Rico. As well as American Samoa. These are tiny places in comparison to the British Empire which at its height controlled India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Burma(now Myanmar), Rhodesia(now Zimbabwe), Sudan, Egypt, Palestine(now Israel), Malaysia, British Honduras(now Belize), Greece, Ireland, Singapore and a number of small territories. Are you able to understand the difference between an empire and developing markets for trade with a large military making sure trade routes stay open? [/QUOTE]

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