With Cinco de Mayo coming up, what does it celebrate other than

>>2759089
the defeat of a foreign empire

>>2759103
Pretty much this.
Of course there was a 2nd battle not long after the first one in which the French won, but it the initial victory was pretty impressive.

iir it was made a holiday by Porfirio Diaz, in what I imagine, was just a way of stroking his own ego.

>>2759089
Mexico throwing away civilisation and nobility in exchange for being a violent shithole controlled by freemasons

>>2760624
>civilisation and nobility
What a nice way of saying "sucking the wealth out of Mexico and sending it to Europe"

>>2760630
Yes, thanks to a republican victory Mexico later became especially known for its wealth

>>2760624
>shitposting this hard outside of /pol/
You have to go back.

>>2760643
And you think mexico being a French puppet state, or let's be completely honest, colony, would have made it richer?
How are those other French colonies doing today?
I've heard great things about Vietnam, oh and Mali is fantastic.

>>2760661
Both are better than shithole Mexico

>>2760676
Shit b8 m8

Here's your (You)

>>2760661
Mexico would have been better off with ties to Europe and without Americans/masons constantly fucking everything up, yes.

>>2760689
If anything it would have made the inevitable revolution become a communist one and Mexico would have been like Cuba except 10x the size and strength.