OK, I was reading history about the USA. It seems we offered Spain a GREAT deal of money to buy Cuba from them but they said no. This got me to wondering why we don't buy other places. Why not just buy a country from its people? I mean go in and say to everyone in Cuba, we will give each person 20,000$ USD and the top people even more, if they agree to become a state of the United states. Why do the war thing? Why not just ask the people? They can vote on it or the top rules can make a choice. I could see this as being a good way to go for a lot of poor lands. Then the USA would grow and people would mostly be happy, much more happy than if we had bombed them or grabbed them like HI. So why is this not done? If it could be done then it seems like in traveller it might be a good way for an empire to acquire new planets. Just seems there must be some reason because I have never heard of it being done in real life.
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