Are you a domestic terrorist?

[kandrathe]

You conquer a third of a large continent from other people, and claim it's limited to "America" and "Americans" because Mexicans and indigenous nations are "Americans" in the sense of the continental plate? Or that their territory was annexed? That's some serious sophistry right there.

If I recall correctly the US' territorial ambitions were aided mostly by a duplicitous (if not traitorous) Antonio López de Santa Anna.

If the Philippines are a set of "nearby" islands, then Britain's empire extended to "nearby" Australia, India, and South Africa. They're almost literally as far from the US as possible while still being on the globe.

True. Although, it was our interest in "liberating" Cuba that led to the Spanish-American war. If just happened that the Philippines got in the way, and then on the path to independance, WWII upset those plans. The US ended up staying much, much longer than expected due to wars, financial and political instability.