Thanks. Now I have to go ask the duck what “bellicose” means…

“What was in it for them?”

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable question to me… far more reasonable than simply assuming the people who perpetrated the US’s colonialist mass-murder campaigns in the third world was simply “good men” (supposedly) “doing the right thing.”

Good job making Trump sound more rational than you, hero.

There is no such thing as an “apolitical” community - not here on the fediverse or anywhere else.