The United States has fought in other countries; but the largest bit of land they’ve ever asked for has been just enough to BURY THEIR DEAD MILITARY MEN AFTER THEY HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TO LIBERATE THOSE COUNTRIES! I suppose this “Apologist in Chief” wants to apologize for THAT!!!
While the US has taken and kept land in conquest up through the 19th century, the only parallel situation in the 20th century was the keeping of a small Japanese island, taken for strategic reasons during WWII, which was asked decades later to vote on whether it wished to rejoin Japan. The people of the island voted the proposal down — they liked the idea of being a US possession better.