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OK, lets avoid all the hypocrisy and self-serving rhetoric and get down to the nitty-gritty of expansionism and land-grabbing in the early 1800's. The Mexicans had long occupied California and most of what was Texas. -The USA under President James Polk had decided it needed a Pacific coast and California was IT. When Mexico wouldn't back down the war ensued.

- Compare this in modern times to the Russians recent grab of Crimea and it's attempts at grabbing Ukraine. -Russia needs a Black Sea port and sees Oddessa as it. -Is this situation really any different?

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