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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6105144" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Where is our empire?  What countries have we overrun?  [USER=34797]@MyTripisCut[/USER] said we were possibly the greatest empire in human history.  We may be the strongest country in human history but where are all these lands we conquered?  Our thing has always been about growing markets.  Economic markets.  And preserving those markets against systems that don't work.  You want the greatest empire in history?  Has to be the British Empire.  But they committed troops all over the world to force other countries to kneel and submit to local British rule.  We had a taste of that in the Philippines but in the end were pretty benign.  Hawaii too.  But where are the dozens of countries that made up our empire like the British?  Or the French, Dutch, Italians, Mongols, Romans, Germans, Japanese, Incas, etc?</p></blockquote><p></p>