[MNJohnnie]

Considering how screwed up most of the rest of the world is, they should wish we were Imperialist.

For most of the third world, a colonial Govt run by the USA would be a massive improvement over the thugs and bandits they currently have running their governments.

[Tolik]

There was an old Soviet era joke in the USSR when one offers to declare war on the US. Another asks why. So the first says, so we can immediately surrender and get occupied.

I think there was an old American movie on the same theme with a fictional little country attacking US for the same reasons.