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In that context America should be given back, Alaska should be given back, Australia should be given back... the list goes on.

Well, in theory, they should! :) Imagine a world where expansionist acts of violent injustice could be undone.

I do not disagree, where does it stop though. We would have to go back to when Homo sapiens and Neanderthals killed each other.

We could have stopped right at the moment when ‘need’ was replaced by ‘greed’. I know, illusionary.

It seems to stop when the argument can't be used to attack Western colonialism.