Posted on 12/01/2017 1:43:56 PM PST by davikkm
The United States has been consistently gobbling up new territory for the last 241 years. Ever since the founders declared the 13 colonies independent from Britain, the US has acquired its 50 states through clever land deals and plunder. The current US map does not even include the 16 territories and hundreds of military bases spread throughout the world. With its extreme propensity for growth, the US has undoubtedly amassed the largest empire known to man. However, the US empire has hit its peak and is now unraveling quickly. For more detail on why this is the case, you can read an article I wrote here. The United States diminishing power will also diminish its ability to keep its impressive land mass intact.
Maps Are Constantly In Flux
Unbeknownst to many people around the world, maps are constantly being redrawn. Unless you have resided in a volatile region of the world, the chances of you experiencing this phenomenon would be slim. Although maps have been redrawn constantly throughout the history of civilization, the average human life is not long enough to witness it often, if at all. The rise and fall of societies is part of evolution, and evolution is an extremely slow process from the human perspective.
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It seems like just about every time Mexico made Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón presidente, he managed to loose Mexican territory. Texas in ‘36, Mexican Cession in ‘48, and the Gadsen Purchase in ‘53. Yet they kept putting him (or let him put himself) into office. Mexico has been messed up for a while now.
Or as Porfirio Diaz famously said, “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States”.
Ever since Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon and claimed it as American, the USA has been the largest empire ever.
Bump
The demonrats are hoping to add Soetoro’s extra 7 states.
Tutuila, Manu'a, and Swains Island
When we defeat an enemy, we do not take their land (as we rightly could), we import their peasants.
Or the British Empire.
Well, per Obama we have 57 states.....
Yes, plunder.
How else would you characterize the Mexican-American war that saw most of the west taken from Mexico and becoming part of the US?
Have you forgotten: "Remember the Alamo"?
I grew up in Texas. Here’s what you’re missing.
The Texas war of independence ended on April 21, 1836, but Mexico refused to recognize the independence of the Republic of Texas, and intermittent conflicts between the two states continued into the 1840s. The United States recognized the Republic of Texas in March 1837 but declined to annex the territory.[2]
So the US did not plunder Texas from Mexico. Texas was a republic when annexed in 1845.
What a comical attempt at sounding highfalutin. How old is the child who wrote this, 12? He thinks he deserves a gold star.
Absolutely. Go with whichever piece has Texas.
There are too many self-described investment blogs that are nothing but ranting lunacy, or partisan media shills of the new media. This op-ed purports to be taking an historical perspective, but is just a steaming crap pile. [*]
We took the Philippines from Spain in 1898, fought a war with the Filipinos to keep the islands, then decided we didn’t really want them, prepared the archipelago for independence, and finally turned it loose on July 4, 1946. The plan was to give them independence in 1945, but World War II got in the way.
I talk more about all this in a podcast about Southeast Asian history. Check out Episodes 29 through 31.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/
Ward? Ward Churchill, is that you?
Either he's a resident of a mental institution or he's member of a 'progressive' think tank. Definitely delusional.
Yes I know all that. That’s why I didn’t think using the word “annexed” was fair.
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