Nice SJW woke history lesson! Guess what? Humans have been wreaking carnage and destruction upon one another since the beginning. The winners write the losers out of history and they get to make the rules. It has become fashionable to forget these facts of existence but they are the facts. It sucks, but might makes right in the end. Why do you suppose governments sink so much $$$ into military and intelligence apparatus? Because nobody wants to become the next conquered and forgotten, yet it will continue to happen as long as humans roam this earth. If the world is getting hotter, I'd love to see the US acquire Greenland. Countries including Russia are aggressively staking claims in far northern reaches. We need to be doing same.
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HRE wrote:
There is historical precedent. We bought the Louisiana Territory and Alaska from other countries. But it's not the 19th Century anymore and it's difficult to imagine that sort of thing could happen anymore.
And the U.S. sent squatters to illegally live in lands from Texas to California with the goal of stealing the those Mexico owned territories. The U.S. sent a lot more "American" squatters (many were European immigrants) to easily outnumber the Mexicans and Native Americans who lived there. Then it was a simple matter of the U.S. asking the "residents" which country they preferred to become a part of. The U.S. never paid Mexico a cent for that illegally occupied land.