"...historically, the US has also been very anti-colonial"? You don't go far enough back from the 20s to include the forcible takeover of the Philippines in the 1890s, relinquished only after WWII.
Re "It would only take one fair-sized glacier to plop into the ocean to put up sea levels noticeably and all at once." With
all due respect, that's not how sea level is raised.
"...historically, the US has also been very anti-colonial"? You don't go far enough back from the 20s to include the forcible takeover of the Philippines in the 1890s, relinquished only after WWII.
Re "It would only take one fair-sized glacier to plop into the ocean to put up sea levels noticeably and all at once." With
all due respect, that's not how sea level is raised.