Which US wars where justified or unjustified

[dead0man]

Very Justified:
Revolutionary War
1812
Civil War
WWII
Afghanistan

sort of justified:
quasi war
Spanish-American
Korea
GW1

not really justified, but worked out ok:
Mexican War
Indian Wars

unjustified or totally screwed up:
everything else

[dead0man]

Can somebody (hopefully one that actually knows about it) explain why the War of 1812 would be unjustified?  Wasn't the UK constantly messing with us?  Stealing our dudes and forcing them into slavery?  How is that not an act of war?

[dead0man]

How was the Mexican American war less justified then the Spanish one. In the Mexican american war the US goal is to annex parts of Mexico and make it part of the US and give those annexed terrorites state hood while the goal of the Spanish American war was to turn the annexed territories into colonies

As the Mexican war, we went in for no reason, but to a reason it was justified as it gave American statehood, it's was mixed on justification for me. For the Spanish-American war, was totally justified, we were fighting for the Cuban people against Spanish imperialism and for a Cuban republic.

Well, I could see the argument for the US to support the Cuban rebels indirectly, but the actual war was fought under false pretenses.

Plus the "liberation" and "anti imperialism" justification falls pretty quickly when you realize that the US held on to Puerto Rico and especially the Philippines (who were also fighting for independence)

we let the Philippines go and would have let Puerto Rico go had they wanted it.

[dead0man]

Maybe I’ve had a few beers and I’m coming at this from too much of a Normal Everyday American perspective, but why the flying  is literally anybody saying getting involved in WWII’s European Front was, like, clearly more justified than the Pacific?!  FDR conspiracy theories aside, that’s incredibly dumb and Hot Take-esque.

I don't understand the point of seperating them.  We were attacked by Japan and had Hitler and El Douche declare war on us.  Obviously we had clear justification for DEFENDING OURSELVES.