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by JoeAltmaier 2409 days ago
Hm. Whom has America conquered? Puerto Rico I guess. Any others?
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Putting aside questions of what it means to "buy" the Louisiana Territory and then use military force against the indigenous peoples, one obvious one is the Spanish-American War, where we got Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands.

We then had to fight the Philippine Republic for control of the country, in the Philippine-American war.