What does /int/ know about the Spanish-American War?

>>69283696
Spain got their ass whooped and we stole some islands

>>69283696
It was kind of like an upstart prize fighter putting an old, broken former-champ out of his misery.

It turned the US from a regional power into a world power

>Burgers stole the philippines
>the most powerful race in the world start a new war against burgers.
>Burgers gaves independence to Cubans.
>Cubans became Soviet allies who hate america after their commie revolution of the 50's.
>Burgers stole Puerto Rico
>some americans cities invaded by irrelevant nigger-like criminals and that island is still third world.

>>69283850
>the most powerful race in the world start a new war against burgers

Lost and after a brief fling with being Japan's bitch in the 1940s, became our bitch in perpetuity. :^)

>>69283883
yes but you are still invaded by some chink mexican rip-off on some cities, they are the majority of your asian immigrants.

>>69283917
Not anymore actually, the Chinese are starting to catch up in numbers

>>69283696
we were (and are) swimming in poo

>>69283943
Why they came now? China isn't supposed to be the future first world power soon?

americans invented some alleged atrocity or crime to have a cause go to war with another country to steal from them, it keeps happening

War that probably shouldn't have happened, but yellow journalists and hotheads were itching for a fight. President McKinley didn't really want to do it, but he assumed he had to represent the will of the American people, also he feared being branded a coward and potentially losing his reelection bid in 1900.

Spain's military was complete trash and melted away like butter.

>Battle of Manila Bay
>Spanish fleet sunk with 400 lives lost
>only one American sailor died, from heat exhaustion due to stoking coal

Just another repulsive war of anglo aggression.

>>69283992
Much easier to emigrate + more money to get started in the US.

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The Philippines was a complete waste of time

>spend four years and hundreds of American lives subduing them
>try to teach the jungle monkeys the rudiments of civilization
>we blew it

The Spanish shot at a whale and then a train thinking it was a torpedo boat.

20 years later the Russians would do the same but with fishing boats.

In conclusion, they're both retards.

>>69284108
>>69283994
Nice proxies. +15 Putincoins.

There were a whole bunch of war scares in the 20 preceding years with Britain, Italy, Germany, Chile, etc. A war was inevitable at some point, thankfully we ended up fighting some shitty country instead of one of the big European states.

>>69284108
Spics suck at war or something, idk.

>>69284402
Spanish taught them to be lazy fucks. Nips were obedient worker bees and did everything we told them to do, and became a highly developed first world society with democracy.

>>69284402
Manila was one of the best cities of Asia.

>>69284402
I guess McKinley didn't want one of the European powers to take the Philippines, but fuck it, we should have just let them have the shithole.

>William Randolph Hearst sent one of his political cartoonists down to Cuba to investigate, when he came back and said that he hadn't seen any real evidence of Spanish atrocities, Hearst replied "You make the cartoons, I'll make the war."

>Aside from lurid stories about Cubans imprisoned in Spanish concentration camps, there were newspaper reports about brutish Spaniards strip-searching American women. The papers did not mention that these strip searches were conducted by other women.

>Sanity and reason did not come into play, most of the American public were itching for a war and martial glory--it had been over 30 years since the Civil War and the younger generation had never seen a war themselves, only heard their elders' stories, and they were bored by mundane political issues such as the gold standard and tariffs. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt called President McKinley a coward "with the backbone of a chocolate eclair" although in fact staying out of war was harder than getting into it.

>McKinley, a Civil War veteran, had seen enough bloodshed in his day to not want to have to start an armed conflict, but he was also a cautious ear-to-the-ground politician who believed in democracy and giving the American people what they wanted, even if that something wasn't necessarily good for them. He also worried about his reelection prospects in two years should he do nothing. The Democrats might label him a coward, and William Jennings Bryan might sweep into the White House with the slogan "Free silver and free Cuba." McKinley was also a staunch party man and figured it was better to break up Spain's colonial empire than the Republican Party.

>Big business did not favor war for the most part, worrying that it could damage their investments and disrupt commerce. The European powers generally favored Spain over the US, having a low overall opinion of Americans' ability to wage war, and also the Spanish fleet on paper looked stronger. Great Britain was the lone exception, having recently sought rapprochement with the US over worries of rising German strength.

>The US Army in 1898 had just under 30,000 men, most of the officer corps consisting of aging Civil War veterans. The Navy, although small, had several modern steel warships. Spain's fleet, though substantial in numbers, was in a terrible state of disrepair, with most vessels dilapidated, decades old, and having to operate far from home.

>>69283696
REMEMBER THE MAINE
TO HELL WITH SPAIN

>>69286799
A US Navy commission in the 1970s ruled that the Maine probably did in fact explode from ignition of dust in a coal bunker, which was ironically the same thing a Spanish commission in 1898 had concluded. Although several possible explanations for the explosion of the ship were floated, a Spanish mine was the least likely of them.

Based American battleships blew Spain's wooden toys out of the water and then we took their island territories in the Pacific.

>>69286989
Also Theodore Roosevelt went to war and shot some Spaniards.

The ultimate ironing is that the Republican bigwigs worried about this overnight national hero trying to run for president himself in 1900 and steal the nomination from their boy McKinley, so they offered Roosevelt the vice presidency, figuring he'd be safely put into a useless position where he wouldn't be one heartbeat away from the Oval Off...whoops.

>>69283696

The official start of the US as a globalist, capitalist empire.

Every single war we've gotten involved with since has been for economic reasons.

>>69287391
Every war ever fought in history was for economic reasons, you baka.

>>69287391
>implying economic reasons aren't a valid cassius belgium

>>69283696
Amerika wanted Cuba but lost and didn't get it so they got Puerto Rico as a consolation prize

Another false flag attack giving the US the opportunity to attack another Decaying Country and rob us our last posessions.
The reason nobody knows anything abot Filipinas in Spain today and most people dobt care about Cuba.

The only reason I hate Teddy to the guts.

>>69283696
There was one?

>>69289629
spain and the us should have became best buds and whipe out all of south america. Now canada is a commie shithole.

>>69289648
yes
There was also a Russian - Japanese one

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