usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.nettoPolitics@lemmy.ml•The United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combinedEnglish
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8 months ago1812 if I remember my history was in large part because they wanted to genocide all the natives and the British wanted to establish a nation for the natives (not out of altruism native trade was one of the only things that ever actually made money out of the Americas)
having access to cheap gas we were protected from that