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How does one just steal land? I've heard of adverse possession, and that's legal all over the world to various degrees.
I think the word you want is conquer, though. That's a debt typically paid in blood.
Cheers.
LOL 'conquer' and 'paid in blood'
That is pompous nonsense and totally not applicable.
There wasn't a great battle heroically fought between armies where the victor takes the land.
No, it was vast empty land where you could encounter some peaceful indians now and then.
americans just put a fence up and called it theirs, nothing was conquered.
Lying to the natives and slaughtering them with superior weapons doesn't count.
The same cowardly way the US fights now, bombing defenseless brown people from a distance and then walk in to plunder it.
The John Wayne heroic fights were just as much BS as the Iraq, Afghanistan propaganda movies now.
The US is a nation of thieves, and worse mass-murderers.
Cheers