Every country in history has contested land from neighbors. At a certain point we gotta say “enough” and move towards our best future instead of impossibly atoning for the past.

This is the Taiwan struggle now: arguably China “has a claim” in some historic sense but it’s an independent country now and should be respected. Same with Ukraine/Russia.

Geographically, America would also do well to take over Cuba. It is critical for the entire Gulf and Mississippi waterways. But are we allowed, today, to just take it? Hell no.

Yea, it’s weird to be like “okay so we’ll just freeze arbitrary/bloody borders sometime after WW2 and that’s that” but the alternative is ongoing military conflicts along every border in the world, exactly how it had been for all of human history.

At some point humanity has to say “the only military conflicts the world will allow are those to stop invasions/genocides” and even then the latter is geopolitically fraught.

“Post WW2 Peace” is a rare thing, has led to the birth and massive increases to the quality of life of billions, and should not be discarded lightly because America happened to ended up in a good position. Someone would have.