TIL The United States Defense Budget of $698 Billion is More Than the Next Seventeen Nations Combined

By the way, the British empire controlled more territory than you guys and that's just a single European country.

Yes and no. The French controlled Indochina (until the Indochina War in the early 1950s) and several European countries held certain countries in Africa as colonies. As saying as why we never controlled as much territory as you guys, because we never strive to be an Empire unlike you guys, since controlling other foreign territories (and impose your rule against the foreigners' will) could be seen as contradictory to freedom and civil liberties. And whatever you guys go into places such as Africa, the Middle East, or Asia, these countries are in ruins because they suffered today from a lot of major influence suffered by British and European colonialism. I say being an Empire is a bad thing that would leave a lot of stain on that country's image and I'm glad my country doesn't hold that title.

Additionally, almost every technology you use day-to-day was invented by a European.

Pretty sure not every technology we're using was invented by a European citizen, considering the internet you and I are now using today was invented by ARPANET and the founding fathers of the internet Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn which paved way for the internet community that successfully developed in the decades.

Also, I've been to America and everyone there practically shit themselves when they heard my accent (I'm British). So funny to see ghetto gangstas totally lose their composure in the face of a teenage European.

Confirmation bias. Doesn't mean you speak for my country nor that was supposed to truly accurately describe it either. So no, I don't think ghetto gangsters or anyone American freak out when foreigners come to our country. In fact, I seen some rude British tourists in Orlando when I went to dine out in a restaurants a few years ago, questioning what it is like there and how some of them are rude to my waitresses.

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