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If that be the case, maybe we the USA ought to take the UK and Ireland as an associate state of the USA.

So two regions declare they want to be closer and your reaction is “we should conquer a couple countries just to show them up”?

This is exactly the problem.

> ought to take

No one is taking anything here, but I think the american mind cannot comprehend complex things such as having allied and building agreements

American here. Only a third of us are MAGA. Still plenty to ruin our country though.

Half. The other sixth that vote that way are also MAGA

Nah, they're independent and they've swung pretty hard away from MAGA once it affected their personal finances. Far from noble, but also pretty far from MAGA.

Nah, if you voted for him three time you’re MAGA for the purposes of this thread, which is basically a response to someone saying “all you Americans are dumb assholes”

I think we mostly disagree about whether "dumb assholes" is a boolean or continuous variable.

When I play Civilization games, it's always domination by force, never religion, trade, etc.

Telling that you would use the verb 'take' rather than 'offer'. But these days, it seems the USA has trouble 'taking' anything besides Venezuelan moustaches.

As far as an offer goes, polls find that almost third of the UK now regards the USA as a threat rather than an ally.

https://www.opinium.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Opinium-U...

Ireland is part of the EU.

Are you seriously saying that the US should _invade the UK_?

If nothing else, I mean, see how Iran's going, now imagine that with aircraft carriers, submarines, nuclear-tipped SLBMs, and so forth.

Like you're pretty much talking about WW3.

They won't need to if they start electing normal politicians and put in the effort to fix the damage they've done over the past decade.

Are we talking UK or USA now?

If rather see the US stop self-sabotaging by destroying our relationships that established us as the monopole.

The USA would take them by force because there is no way anyone in the world wants to have anything to do with the USA.

But taking someone by force in on brand for Trump, so it might happen.

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