Posted on 03/07/2024 10:29:26 AM PST by OneVike
Thank you for that correction.
Mostly. But Austin isn’t really Texas.
We gain nothing helping either side. It is time we spend our resourses and efforts on defending our own borders.
Inquiring minds want to know.
On the contrary. Kicking Russian corruption and influence out of Europe will bring economic and political gains for Americans. That’s why President Trump campaigned for American energy to replace Russian energy in Europe. Those are, obviously, good jobs for Americans. Or we can starve Ukraine and help Make Russia Great Again. Decisions, decisions.
> Thank you for that correction. <
No, FRiend. My post #75 was not a correction to your previous post. I just expanded a bit on what you had already mentioned.
The full Jefferson quote is a good one. I would not known to look for it had you not mentioned Jefferson in the first place.
BAM..! Give that man a cigar...
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Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner.
Korea even sent soldiers to the war in Iraq.
Saluting is suspended in a war zone (no use telling enemy snipers who the high value targets are) so Americans in Iraq didn't salute their own officers. But the Koreans saluted American officers. They haven't forgot who it was that saved them from the Chinese hordes.
The Iraqi soldiers also saluted American officers, but that's another story.
Fair is not the operative word or Principle in this world.
In Fact, The American People will bear the Consequences of the actions of American Covert Agencies (and American Leaders) in their name.
This also applies to the Peoples of other nations in the same manner.
A great many innocent Humans have died for these activities. The Perpetrators should be exposed.
The Philippines only profited by being a U.S. Possession from 1898 until after WWII.
Regards,
That is what empires always tell their possessions, but the Filipinos certainly didn’t like it when we announced we were making them our colonial possession — many Americans, who remembered our own revolution didn’t like it either.
Grenada
We didn't simply "announce" one day that we were taking over. Rather, we assumed control of the Philippines from the Spanish. We also then later, during WWII, redeemed the Philippines from the hated Japanese.
Our stewardship of the Philippines was prudent and beneficial.
There was even a sizable native movement to achieve full statehood within the United States.
Regards,
McKinley made the decision to annex after the war with Spain. He could have announced that he was going to give them independence after a transitional period, as we did with Cuba. Plenty of Filipinos had been expecting independence, so we were fighting them for three more years.
Filipino-American relations became warmer over the years, especially after the Japanese occupation, but at the time many both here and in the Philippines felt that we did stab them in the back.
Well, we all know one thing, we helped Russia in WWI and in WWII, and they've done nothing but stab us in the back.
That said, we have a fifty year long record, since Vietnam, of abandoning to their fate, even if it is extermination, just about everyone who has bet their existence on siding with the United States. That sort of behavior is not conducive to getting other nations to defer their interests to ours, in the name of gratitude.
Israel, England...
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