What if the U.S. annexed Iraq and Afghanistan? How would the world react? How would the U.S. control the populace of a different religion and culture, and will hate them even more and resist them even more in this timeline?
What if the U.S. annexed Iraq and Afghanistan?
- Thread starter Bullmoose713
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I'd rather annex a place that has a decent beach. And maybe not quite so many suicide bombers and IEDs.
Why the hell would we want to annex a couple of terrorist ridden Third World dumps?
It makes no sense, but the only way they could annex such areas is with plenty of settler colonialism.
Who the hell are you going to have as settlers? Are you going to send felons there at gunpoint?
Not saying its likely, just saying a territory filled with hostile natives can only be solved by settling the land with loyal citizens.
Going that route you can always kick the natives into Syria or somewhere at gunpoint. Of course you would have such a vastly different US by that time it would need a POD far enough in the past Bush would have been butterflied away.
The U.S. officially takes over the oil fields? Iraq and Afghanistan hold totally legit referendums?
And they would become what? States in the Union. 2 more stars on the flag? The citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan would all immediately become US citizens? How would this affect the Electoral College? The House of Representatives and the Senate?
Or just occupy them militarily forever, which is pretty much OTL.
Actually, in 2004, I was already surprised that they didn't give it as a 99 year fiefdom to Haliburton and Blackwater. They pretty much ran the place already at that time.
But schemes like Generalplan Ost are rather unfashionable in the 21st Century.
I agree the whole thing is ridiculous on the face of it. I never implied otherwise.
