If look at how the US is acting, they are definitely acting like "Uh... we're calls Americans, so North and South America is ours, it's only logical". They fucked up most South America (after the Europeans did of course) and continue to act like it belong to them. They just kidnapped the leader of a South American nation as if it were the 53rd state, said "we'll rule and you better give us primetime access to that oil! it's ours already".

It's an idea they can steal like the land, it has been the modus operandi for more than 50 years.