we didn’t have a referendum in the northern third of mexico we took?
We would not have received the Mexican Session if Mexico had not invaded Texas after Texas joined the Union. Yes, yes, bother me with trifles about the “Nueces Strip” if you wish, but Santa Anna agreed to withdraw the Mexican forces south of the Rio Grande … that meant that the Rio Grande became the new border of Texas.
The Mexican-American war would not have been fought if the Mexicans had not challenged the US Army.
Did you not learn history?