“Imperialism” is an accurate description of the trajectory of US history.
The 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France – in reality a political pay-off to stop the Appalachian French and Indian War from expanding west – effectively doubled its territory from the Gulf of Mexico north into parts of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, west to the Rocky Mountains for unrestricted holocaust of the native peoples who lived there. President Trump’s self-enriching land grab in Gaza Strip 2023-2026 is simply a replay of the past.
In 1819, Florida was acquired from Spain and, in 1845-46, Texas and part of California were forcibly annexed from Mexico. All lethal acquisitions accorded with what became known as the country’s manifest—that is, clear and obvious—destiny to control first the entire continent, continuing with Trump’s demand to annex Canada and Greenland.
Moving on world-wide, the U.S. went on to gobble up the Philippines, Hawaii, the Panama Canal Zone, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Mariana Islands, the last five of which remain US territories to this day.
US economic, military, and political influence has long extended far beyond those internationally recognized possessions and various presidents have enunciated a series of “doctrines” to legitimate such an imperial reach. In 1823 the Monroe Doctrine warned the nations of Europe that the United States would not permit the establishment of any new colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
In 1904 Theodore Roosevelt established America’s right to exercise international police power to justify US occupations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua. In 2026 under the pretext of a police action against drug smuggling, President Trump kidnapped Venezuela’s President and his wife, incarcerated them without trial in the U.S., with the stated objective of assuming control of Venezuela for its lucrative oil industry.
In 1947 Harry S. Truman’ Doctrine required the “containment” of existing Communist states and the prevention of the further spread of Communism anywhere on Earth, justifying Washington’s support for dictators and repressive regimes from El Salvador to Indonesia, US-backed coups in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile, and leading this country into a futile war in Korea and a disastrous defeat in Vietnam.
From a biblical perspective we can identify any ruler of Daniel’s Fourth – the Roman -Empire by his role at Jerusalem as a foreign overlord on whose military alliance the current ruler of Israel depends for power, overriding YHVH’s authority as ruler and peacemaker.Judaea, now part of modern day Israel, had been a Roman ally since the second century BC, given special privileges as a province in 6 AD.
The United States was the first country to recognize Israel as an independent state on May 14, 1948, when President Harry Truman issued a statement of recognition following Israel’s proclamation of independence on the same date.
Since then, Israel has become, and remains, America’s most reliable partner in the Middle East. Israel and the United States are bound closely by historic and cultural ties as well as by mutual interests.
The U.S.-Israel bilateral relationship is anchored by over $3 billion in Foreign Military Financing annually, by far the largest to any nation. In addition to financial support, the U.S. participates in a high level of exchanges with Israel, to include joint military exercises, military research, and weapons development.
The U.S. is Israel’s largest single trading partner. The U.S. and Israel also coordinate scientific and cultural exchanges through the Binational Science Foundation, the Binational Agricultural Research and Development Foundation, and the U.S.-Israeli Education Foundation.