People of the highest social class in society belong to the<span> upper-upper class, aristocrats, or elites. </span>
After the Soviet Union lost twenty million soldiers in WW2, Stalin wanted to make buffer zones around friendly states so they would never be invaded again.
I always "felt" I could write. I did not always "feel" I could effectively study a foreign language.
I think that what you're looking for is Manifest Destiny, the idea that it was natural, required and proper of the settlers to expand across the continent.
Some connected this to God (that is, that God devised this expansion as His plan), but God is not always necessarily connected to this idea.
