Then how did we get New Mexico?
Russia signed onto the UN Charter back in 1945 which recognizes the sovergnty of existing nations.
But Russia has become aggressive and is violating that charter and now need to be put down.
Putin is the Hitler of my lifetime.
And as far as New Mexico, Mexico decided they weren’t going to honor the peace treaty signed by Santa Anna and attacked Texas which was an independent Republic at the time. So the US intervened and went down and captured Mexico city. At which point Mexico ceded everything north of the Rio Grand. And New Mexico ended up a territory controlled by the US for the next 60 years before they were finally allowed to be come a state.