>>4306428I will never understand why the average American isn't drooling at the prospect of colonizing all of the western hemisphere. The most simple formula for quality of life is resources/population. There is no need to retain the populations of central, south America, or the Caribbean outside of current US territories.
If these nations were truly depopulated, then their agricultural industries would produce massive surpluses. At first, this may seem useless, but consider how China's overproduction is used as an economic weapon to cripple foreign industries. Similarly, the United States could retain this agricultural production and use it to weaken the agricultural prospects of other nations. This would eventually produce an exponential effect where the more agricultural land the US controls, the more food it can flood the market with and depress prices. The same could be accomplished with raw materials, and eventually manufactured goods since there would be a massive reduction in demand in the western hemisphere itself. If the US controlled the entire western hemisphere and administrated its territory as an economic weapon of production, we would easily outpace China and have the resources necessary to conquer Africa and the middle east as well.