Historical inferiority complex overcompensated for 200 years.
Puritans were the dumbest of dumbfucks among a culture that was called "dogs" by the Byzantines, because they could barely read and were found only useful as war bands, mercenaries for hire, fanatical religious grunts and thugs. So as soon as they could separate from their society and started killing to steal abroad they found in war the closest to "proof" that the god of jews made everything in the model of them. Even Christ, retroactively.
They call this religious drive for killing to steal "Manifest destiny".





