Spoken like a real Anti-American Canadian .
I grew up in Canada, with people just like you...happy on the outside to be pro American, but deep down, HATING the USA for it’s successes.
If Manifest Destiny had been a real American policy, you Canucks would have al been pledging allegiance to Old Glory long ago.
Classy.
When you can’t defend against the points raised, instead you launch an ad hominem. Now that you’ve vented your spleen, please explain how the numerous broken treaties with the Natives in the Western US was not colonization. Let’s try the ‘liberation’ of the Philippines in 1898. Please explain how this was not colonization.
The truth hurts, doesn’t it!
Human nature is such that we look after ourselves first and foremost. When we desire something so we take it, if we can. be it through trade or force. America has done it’s share of colonizing in the past. Acknowledging that your country is imperfect, like every other country, will set you free.