Redpill me on the Mexican-American war, /his/

Every single one of those squares is true.

>>3065057
CHI

>>3065068
This.

>>3065057
CALIFORNIOS DID NOTHING WRONG

>>3065068
>>3065164
t. topped out at a high school education

Mexico tried to assert rights over some settlers and was blown the fuck out by a minor force of gringoes who had a cannon and some testicles.

Later, they were blown out by a force much more organized and militarized than theirs, known as the United States of America. The United States actually paid for the lands ceded by the Mexicans, not just taking them by right of conquest.

>>3066184
Go back.

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>>3066190
>The United States actually paid for the lands ceded by the Mexicans, not just taking them by right of conquest.

Yeah, less than half of what they'd offered to pay originally, for what amounted to half of Mexico's landmass and most of its precious resources, was insult to injury that the California Gold Rush happened just one year after the war ended.

The war was American imperialism plain and simple, inherited from the fatherland and "justified" to this day under "muh manifest destiny" bullshit. No less a figure than Ulysses S. Grant who fought in the war would comment the following:

>Generally, the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.

tl;dr America was the bad guy and completely deserves to have millions of illegal Mexicans suckling on the taxpayers' teats.

>>3066190
it was common courtesy to pay for territory taken in war
Even the philippines was paid for, albeit at a sum that any old american industrialist could have paid for out of pocket.