Are you a domestic terrorist?

[Jester]

Other than those few nearby islands (which I admit I didn't consider), what I said was true. American exploitation was limited to America, and mostly North America.

Oh, fer the love of...

You conquer a third of a large continent from other people, and claim it's limited to "America" and "Americans" because Mexicans and indigenous nations are "Americans" in the sense of the continental plate? Or that their territory was annexed? That's some serious sophistry right there. You said Americans only exploited *themselves* and *their own resources*.

And if the Philippines are a set of "nearby" islands, then Britain's empire extended to "nearby" Australia, India, and South Africa. They're almost literally as far from the US as possible while still being on the globe.

-Jester