So from what I heard the US was pretty weak before ww1. If this

This thing called the Atlantic Ocean

>>32274701
We weren't worth the effort.

What do you gain from "fucking with" a country? Especially one with an armed populace?

>>32274701
Two major reasons:
The Atlantic and Pacific. Prior to WWII, landing on a hostile shore was basically suicide.

Also because the US requires about six months at best to rev up its war industry, then things get very very bad for the enemy.

>>32274701
The US was a global financial center and commercial and industrial giant.

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>>32274701
no good spot to invade the logistics are too much a pain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812#Course_of_the_war

>>32274701
Germany did actually have a plan to shell New York with their navy in 1904, but it never went through. Also, the US and UK almost went to war over a border dispute near Canada around the same time.

>>32274730
Thats after WWII

>>32274755
Germany was trying to get Mexico to invade the US with German support. That's one of the main reasons the US got involved in WW1

>>32274716
This

>>32274701
There was a naval battle between the US and the German Empire over Samoa in the late 1800's. Both fleets got destroyed by a typhoon, and a treaty was signed because no one had any ships left.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_crisis

Would have been interesting if there wasn't a storm and things had continued to escalate

>>32274876
Balfour Declaration
Samuel Untermyer
dat sweet imperialism
muh Paris

>>32274701
They did, Cinco de Mayo, the battle, was because the French were trying to rise up through the South to give the Confederates assitance during the Civil War, but feisty beaners held them up a bit too long
So UK was getting involved, but then some big ass Russian ships showed up in our harbor on account of them not wanting Europe to have the Pacific.
So the Russias helped the Union then sold us Alaska but it all went to shit when the Reds beat the Whites in their Civil War.

>>32274860
That was before ww2 as well idiot

>>32274701
two words
>Teddy
>Roosevelt

>>32274719
An armed populace that btfo Britain twice which is known for being the possibly most powerful nation of the time

>>32274716
>32274716
fpbp

European observers in the us civil war thought out potential power was off the charts.

>>32274701
Read War Plan Red and youll see why

>>32275507
No, they were just horrified at the brutal amount of casualties caused because yanks just stood there and either shot or got shot, as opposed to firing a volley then closing with bayonets to rout. Both sides just stood there blowing chunks out of each other.

>>32274876
bluepilled cuck

>>32275517
>yanks just stood there and either shot or got shot, as opposed to firing a volley then closing with bayonets to rout.
Yes, because this worked out great at Gettysburg didn't it?

>Spain doesn't count.
>False Flag on a selfdestroing, decadenting old colonial power that had 2 coup d'etat arond that time.

Nobody cared abot the US. Deal with it. Simply that. Also US in WW1¿ lol

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>>32275177
Sure it was.

>>32275460
Was the USA the Afghanistan of its time?

>>32274701

Because England actually had pretty good relations with us soon after the revolution ended (relatively), and they wouldn't let that happen. They lost us, and weren't about to let someone else upset the balance of power by taking over.

Further if England couldn't hold on to the US, what makes you think anyone else could? They were THE superpower.

>Like shit, germany could have steam rolled us
No, they couldn't. They have to actually get their army here. Which also necessitates their army NOT being in Germany. See the problem? They cannot fully commit to attacking the US without opening themselves to the world's worst curbstomp from any of their neighbors. Even if they did this, they'd have a pretty hard time with insurgence, because Americans are assholes who refuse to surrender.

>>32278114
you can't have a Great Depression without being at a GREAT peak in the first place

but no really, you're thinking of WW1 which was what crippled every great power but the USA. Before that point, England was getting fucked over by the French so the England couldn't do much about the American Revolution.

>>32274876
but that is wrong