Why is America not seen as a colonial power/empire? The United

>>2392613
Propoganda. Also, it probably depends on who you ask. I doubt Filipinos and Cubans wouldn't consider them a colonial nation.

In its continental matters, the difficulty is that the states did not necessarily run those territories as proper european colonies. Y'know, it was all land that would eventually get integrated into the United States proper and be given all the rights and obligations that that entails, even begrudgingly to a lot of brown folks they couldn't kick out. It was not until the Cuban-American war that the US received territory for which that wasn't the option they wanted.

On the matter of these later territories, the Philippines and Guam and such, it is because these colonies did not really make the US a colonial power, in the sense of its power being defined by its colonial territories. The UK has colonies today, but we do not therefore think of it as a colonial power, because these last colonies do not make up a significant amount of the UK's power.

>>2392635
I mean "Spanish-American war"
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