[rbg246]

You are forgetting enslavement and genocide of indigenous populations they encountered, the Atlantic slave trade, mass land theft all in the pursuit of profit.

No indigenous population was left better off - as much wealth and resources as possible were looted.

To say that it was anything but utterly disgusting is an understatement.

[refurb]

What makes a distinction between “land theft” and just conquest?

I mean, if I think about North America, when one native tribe attacked and defeated another tribe and took their land, was that land theft? When the British, French or Spanish did the same, was that “land theft”?

[rbg246]

Your argument is a rhetorical diversion away from my comment regarding the crime's of the British empire.

When someone commits a murder do you say. Well what about all the other murderers?

What hypothetical American indigenous tribes may or may not have done is not the subject of this thread.