Naval Mines

The Maine probably sank because the crew was careless with powder storage. The whole war existed just to sell William Randolph Hearst's newspapers.

>>34077414
They, in the case of naval mines, created maps with regions essentially being marked "filled with death" and "not filled with death".

The problem is with land mines. Those fucks never get totally cleaned up which is why Europe was post WW 1 and the middle east, Asia and Africa are such horrifying messes. Because no one could say for certain where every mine, shell and bomb was.

>>34077487

Let's not pretend those places wouldn't have been shitholes otherwise.

>>34077467
Free press was a mistake

>>34077414
most people who have examined the wreck say it was not a mine but a magazine accident

>>34077414
That was a coal dust explosion, they just called it a mine.

>>34077487
>The problem is with land mines. Those fucks never get totally cleaned up which is why Europe was post WW 1 and the middle east, Asia and Africa are such horrifying messes. Because no one could say for certain where every mine, shell and bomb was.

Imagine being this uneducated lol

>>34077414
>Falling for 1 year old 'Free' 'Syrian' 'Army' propaganda
stupid
>Falling for 14 year old neo-con propaganda
very stupid
>Falling for 25 year old Serbian propaganda
exceptionally stupid
>Falling for 45 year old Rhodesian propaganda
incredibly stupid
>Falling for 80 year old Nazi propaganda
ludicrously stupid
>Falling for 119 year old American propaganda
peak stupdidity

>>34082275
Kill yourself 6 times

>>34077414
>In the Spanish-American War, the USS Maine was sunk to a naval mine in 1898 in a harbor in Havana
No. The war had not started yet. Second, the Maine sank because a a fire set off a powder magazine.