5fish
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You know we have been referred to as an Empire before the 20th century...The singular problem with this whole shootin' match is that the USA is not an empire and the wall it has built and is building is not a military fortification but a component of immigration security. Our wall is more a symptom of xenophobia than of military insecurity.
The concept of an American Empire was first popularized during the presidency of James K. Polk who led the United States into the Mexican–American War of 1846. In recent times the concept has been revived to refer to the sphere of influence of the United States by its critics.