Just think of how much better off the world would be today if we had simply kept the territory at the end of WW2. This silliness would have completely avoided. About now we would be debating whether the various American territories in the former Germany would be admitted to statehood.
Instead we’re watching Germany commit suicide. And yet again, we’ll be asked to pull their bacon out of the fire. I’m heartily sick of spending American lives in Germany for nothing.
20th Century Americans had already had a bellyfull of conquest and domination in the 19th Century. America had the only bomb for several years, and didn’t blackmail the world into submission. America had vast expanses of other people’s territories, and thought nothing of choosing liberty over empire. No wonder leftists hate America.