Certainly long before the Louisiana purchase, and other westward expansion. Russia is less of a prison of nations that the US is.

  • deadbergeron [he/him,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    In all fairness thats not even the "USA." It's Jamestown. That colony created a huge empire. America's nomenclature belongs, historically, to the entire continent - the USA stole it, in 1776, with the writing of the Articles of Confederation. There is no actual place called "the United States of America."