John Mearsheimer argues the U.S. built itself through aggressive expansion: killing Native Americans, seizing their lands, taking the southwest from Mexico, and invading Canada in 1812. He compares this pattern to Hitler's rhetoric after invading the Soviet Union.
June 22, 1941
United States marched from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. We murdered huge numbers of Native Americans. We stole their land. We went to war with Mexico and stole from them what is the southwest of the United States. We invaded Canada in 1812. There's no country in modern history that has a record of expansion that comes close to ours. It's no accident that when Adolf Hitler went into the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, for the next few months, he talked frequently about doing in the Soviet Union what the United States did in North America.
If these are God's chosen people then God chose them to test the rest of us.
