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I think the U.S. should absorb the entire Caribbean, if that counts.
That was discussed during & after the Spanish American War - we annexed Puerto Rico (more or less) & took the Philippines under protectorate status - allegedly to Christianize them, although the Spanish had been there @ that for centuries). We also could have placed Cuba in protectorate status, but passed. In all three cases, there were calls for outright annexation & taking them in as US states. Anti-Catholic & anti-Spanish language (& maybe anti-Black, -Malayan, -Chinese, -Islamic) forces objected in the US, & we didn't annex the islands.
The same discussion came up repeatedly as the US intervened in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Central & South America, Mexico (Mexican American War) & throughout the Caribbean. Each time, the proposals for were knocked back by concerns over taking in a large Spanish- or Native People speaking populations, Catholics or Nativists, Native People populations, under a different (French? Spanish?) legal system.
There were less objections to taking in the Bahamas, Jamaica & other English-speaking islands & nations, although we didn't typically intervene in those - & there was still some concern about the variations in government, the Black & Arab & India populations, etc.
All of this ground has been plowed repeatedly - the exact same discussions took place after the Mexican American War, when we annexed NM, AZ, CO, CA, NV & bits of other states, & the people & tribes already there. If we - the US - didn't carry through on most of these annexation notions when we were an expanding industrializing country & growing by natural increase in population (plus immigration), then it's much less likely now, that we're less of an industrializing economy, & when immigration has become a controversial issue. In point of fact, without immigration, our population would be contracting - & we still have lots of grunt work that needs to be done (plus Social Security & other social net programs need steady income streams).
Thailand and Vietnam will never be part of the same country.
Too different from each other in many ways.
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Nothing new under the sol?
