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Why didn't U.S. just keep Cuba after 1898?
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 2:08 AM Author: Mainlining The Secret Truths of My Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48371619) |
Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:20 PM Author: Mainlining The Secret Truths of My Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374108) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:28 PM Author: Ass Sunstein We could have taken a lot more of Northern Mexico too including all of Baja. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374163) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:28 PM Author: Mainlining The Secret Truths of My Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™) Fucking faggot pussy fag$ we should have Greenland too.
And Canada.
Fuck these "leaders" |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:29 PM Author: .,..,.,.,.,,,.,..,.,..,....,.,.,,,.,.,.,.,..,,..,. Many southerners wanted to make Cuba a slave state, not flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374167) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:29 PM Author: Mainlining The Secret Truths of My Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™) Great thoughts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374174) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:29 PM Author: hank_scorpio we didn't want to see ourselves as imperialists so close to home I guess? It really doesn't make much sense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374173) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:30 PM Author: Mainlining The Secret Truths of My Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™) Fuckign retarded leaders...the entire Western Hemisphere should be ours (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374179) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:30 PM IIRC there were some really petty reasons-- shit like farmers worrying that if Cuba was a territory than Cuban tobacco/sugar would undercut the American market. But I would love some scholarship that really goes into this because it seems strange. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374175) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:31 PM Author: Mainlining The Secret Truths of My Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™) If "Putin" gets his side of the world, so should we. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374183) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:31 PM Author: ,,.,.,,,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,,.,.,.,..,., 1) we still retained the right to do whatever we want re: Cuba (see Platt Amendment), so why by the cow when you can have the imperialist milk for free? 2) people thought cubans were dirty foreigners 3) anti-imperialism was a thing still (this didn't cease to be true until WW2) and we'd supported Cuban independence from Spain so we didn't want to look like huge hypocrites here |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:33 PM Author: Mainlining The Secret Truths of My Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™) The Platt Amendment: why annex the island when you can just install the imperial governor on a sugar plantation and call it independence? "Free" milk indeed—Cuba got the cow and we kept the whip.
"Dirty foreigners" is such a quaint way of saying: "God forbid the cigar rollers get a flag and a say in tariffs." We wanted their tobacco, not their votes, friend. Manifest Destiny stops right at the Mason-Dixon of melanin.
Anti-imperialism was alive, sure—but mostly in the "this isn’t the right kind of empire" way. Half the people wringing their hands over annexation just didn’t want Catholics, Cubans, or anyone with a tan at the Fourth of July barbecue.
We wanted the benefits of empire, just without the messy optics of actually owning the place. Classic AmeriKKA. |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:35 PM Author: spritexero easier for us elites to do shady shit in a technically “foreign” country. see eg israel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374210) |
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Date: November 23rd, 2024 10:36 PM Author: Mainlining The Secret Truths of My Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5638950&forum_id=2#48374213) |