among the most "expansionist" of nations, all the while justifying such intervention as "enlightening" or democratizing" the hapless areas targeted.
Remember, for example, "Manifest Destiny" (http://www.historynet.com/manifest-destiny) and the "Monroe Doctrine" (https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/monroe).
From the first link:
Outside the United States, the effects of manifest destiny were being seen in U.S. intervention in the Spanish-American war when Spain ceded the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S. This was an expansion of U.S. territory as colonies rather than states and was another demonstration of growing U.S. imperialism.
The US envied the British and French for their vast colonial empires, but itself only became the military power it is now after WWII, and especially during the Cold War. Here is one estimate of what we have in firepower:
http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=united-states-of-america
This link notes that
nuclear weapons are not taken into account in its listing.
For nuclear weaponry, here is one source:
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat
Here is an assessment of US nuclear weaponry from another source:
http://index.heritage.org/military/2017/assessments/us-military-power/u-s-nuclear-weapons-capability/ Note that this second source is
The Heritage Foundation, which has a "conservative" agenda and has apparently had a lot of influence on Trump's "thinking" or whatever passes for "thinking" in Trump's case, so please take at least some pronouncements with a grain of salt.
The US has NO moral "high ground" left. None whatsoever ... if we ever really did.
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