Hyderabad, Jan. 28 -- If the over-ambitious Trump Empire engulfs Canada, Panama, and Greenland it would not be surprising. The United States had not long back, snatched California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and parts of some other adjoining states from Mexico-then a big country-after two years of war (1846-1848). In 1898 it fought with Spain to take Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the distant Philippines. One wonders why in his Second Coming Donald Trump is not talking about incorporating Cuba-if not the Philippines-once under the occupation of the United States.

In between it bought Alaska from Russia in 1867.

The two World Wars came as a distraction for the United States' expansionist design in the vicinity as it got sucke...