"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
The history of the United States is full of territorial land grabs, and not just from Native Americans tribes on European colonies. Americans will even grab land from other Americans, even when they share cultural and national ties.
While not matching exactly to Putin's grab of the Russian speaking peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine, America faced its own peninsula-based territorial war between Ohio and Michigan in the 1830s. While it seems silly to think a fight over state lines could happen today, the history of territorial wars is more vast than many realize and, as I will show later in this piece, the threat of territorial land grabs still exist, especially as the naked ambition of Governor Scott Walker threatens the peace and pasties of the great Upper Peninsula of Michigan.