All nations that have claimed the right of global domination.

there is a reason it is called the United States of America even though all nations in the Americas are part of America. It is a claim to rule the whole of the Americas.

Of course that is not the whole world but we are not finished on this side of the globe yet.

You may be joking, I'm not sure, but the United States of America was named that because it was a collection of united states...in America. Expansion into Spanish territory wasn't even slightly on the radar at that point.
 
You may be joking, I'm not sure, but the United States of America was named that because it was a collection of united states...in America. Expansion into Spanish territory wasn't even slightly on the radar at that point.
Oh I was.

But with today's USA now having a state in the Pacific ( Hawaii with more being possible to come), with the likely possibility of one in the Caribbean(Puerto Rico with more being possible to come) should we have changed the name a while ago?
 
IIRC the Soviet Union claimed some sort of "global revolution" in its ideology early on.
It's rather unclear, though, whether they meant the other countries entering the USSR confederation, or staying as their own communist states in some sort of global super-confederation; and they certainly dropped that idea at some point in the 1930s (or so).

This means that in the hearts of toiling peoples, lives an unconquerable striving for putting together their forces. There, where there was the old tsarist empire forged by blood and iron, there was along with that, in the depths of people's consciousness, a striving for a brotherly life, without hatred, struggle and brawl of one nation with other nation. And now, the toiling people, who got in their hands the means of ruling the state, they build a new Soviet Federative Russia. And this new Soviet Russia reaches its hands to an awakening Germany. And there will be, in the whole world, a United Soviet Republic of All Peoples!"

-Leon Trotsky
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Yeah Trotskyism is probably the most sincere about it while being fully cognisant of what global really means and entails.

Well, according to a 70s Australian history book I read, it was a tenet of Sukarnoism as well, but since I haven't seen it corroborated elsewhere, I suspect it was propaganda.
 
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Oh I was.

But with today's USA now having a state in the Pacific (Hawaii with more being possible to come *), with the likely possibility of one in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico with more being possible to come**) should we have changed the name a while ago?***

*WTF?
**WTF?
*** TUPCSOCNAPAHAAPR? (The United Politically Correct States Of Central Northern America Plus Hawaii And Alaska And Puerto Rico):rolleyes:
 
You may be joking, I'm not sure, but the United States of America was named that because it was a collection of united states...in America. Expansion into Spanish territory wasn't even slightly on the radar at that point.
That, and I think the Spanish called their possessions the Indies or something. At the beginning they also called it These United States rather than The United States. If they wanted full dominance they would have moved into The United State.
 

GdwnsnHo

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I'm surprised Austria hasn't got a mention!

Alles Erdreich ist Österreich untertan

All the world is subject to Austria
 
Slightly absurdly, the Emperor of Ethiopia styled hmself as King of Kings, which does rather imply a view of the world in which Ethiopia was number one; mind you he also claimed descent from the Queen of Sheba and is I believe, worshipped as a deity?
 
The Hapsburgs also caressed the idea of world domination at the time of Charles V, joining together the concept of "universitas christiana" and "universal monarchy".
 
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