I just watched THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA: FRONTIERSMEN.
https://www.history.com/shows/the-men-who-built-america-frontiersmen
In episode four we learn how John C. Fremont sent American troops into Mexico to bait the Mexicans into an attack, and how President James K. Polk deliberately lied and told congress that the attack had occurred on American soil to get a declaration of war against Mexico.
And that’s how the US acquired California.
So, if the history is true ( and I’m not saying it is ), California was taken from Mexico on DECEPTIVE GROUNDS?
But let’s talk about today -— Who instigated the poison gas attack in Syria? If it is the USA, to what end?
Polk just drew a line at a different river in Tejas than mexico and sent scott to spank them.
The US wanted CALso as to be coast to coast and get mexico totally out.
Did you have problem with that version on the Frontiersman?
Polk was not the first president to go whole out on manifest destiny
America set up England in the Revolutionary War, a few drunk farmers went to Concord, Sam Adams fired his pistol and the Brits started shooting, starting the Revolution. War of 1812, An American plot to steal Canada that backfired and we had our capital burned. (Cost cutting by Jefferson reduced the military). Civil war, Lincoln, forced Rebels to open fire on Fort Sumter by supplying the fort to lock up one of the few seagoing ports in the CSA. WW I started when Wilson had England send the Lusitania (Traveling slow—in sub infested waters) full of rich Americans—to be sunk! WW II FDR, prods Japan to attack and moved the fleet to Hawaii (making sure the carriers were at sea). A case could be made for US using such tactics to get into wars. But, wars are started for more than one cause.