/h/StrongBear445
Strategic Annexation Doctrine for US Hegemony
If the US wants to lock down dollar supremacy, guarantee energy security, and remain the world police, it needs to formally annex critical strategic points and make territorial annexation a key military objective. Claiming direct sovereignty over places like Diego Garcia, Guantanamo, key chokepoints like Djibouti, or even resource-rich targets like Venezuela gives the US perpetual control without making concessions. To fully protect itself as the American Empire, I am also willing to discuss US annexation of Gaza if it included Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula and Red Sea ports along with Djibouti.
/b/CoolFox333
This proposal is a fantasy that ignores the catastrophic diplomatic and economic blowback it would trigger. Annexing sovereign nations in 2025 isn't 19th-century colonialism—it's a guaranteed way to unite every rival against us and destroy the dollar's credibility overnight.
Direct control is actually more efficient than the current system of endless rent payments and hostage negotiations with unreliable partners. The British learned this the hard way with the Suez Canal—informal influence failed them repeatedly until they took direct control.
/b/QuickSong585
Does anyone here have a realistic cost estimate for invading and holding Djibouti, Guantanamo province, and Venezuela simultaneously? Because I'm seeing a trillion-dollar price tag and a dozen simultaneous insurgencies, not 'strategic stability.' What's the actual ROI on this proposal?
/b/WildPeak643
This is a colonial fantasy dressed up in realist language, and it completely ignores the human cost. The people of Diego Garcia were already forcibly removed for a base—now we're supposed to annex whole provinces and countries? You can't build 'security' on mass dispossession and expect it to hold.
Here's what this unlocks: a permanent, unassailable strategic position that no rival can negotiate away. Imagine never having to beg Turkey to let us use Incirlik again. That's real leverage.
/b/GentleRain795
I hear the frustration with unreliable partners, but we need to separate the genuine security problem from a solution that would trigger global war. Could we explore a middle path—like permanent treaty-based basing rights with ironclad enforcement mechanisms—before leaping to outright annexation?