Someone didn’t remember the Alamo!
The Alamo was for Texas independence that just so happened to be supported by the US and Texas just so happened to join them afterwards
Or the revolutionary war. Pretty fundamental.
Technically the United States bought Texas and the rest of the Western States, after a war with Mexico.
after a war with Mexico
after a war
war
The technicality they’re using is that the land was purchased after the war as opposed to taken as a result of the war.
Yes, but that land would not have been “sold” if they hadn’t lost the war. The war was fought to conquer land, and the payment was for war “reparations”.
The U.S. agreed to pay $15 million for the physical damage of the war and assumed $3.25 million of debt already owed by the Mexican government to U.S. citizens
Yes, that is correct. We either purchased the land or found ourselves the owners in mysterious ways after special military operations. /s
Russia/Israel is that you?
There are a whole lot of dead Native Americans who sure as hell thought we were at war with them.
This is the woke mob trying to repaint history. The settlers arrived and invited the native Americans to dinner and the native Americans taught the settlers about “maize” (which means corn) and then the settlers asked they would move to the very cool reservations where they could have the casinos and the native Americans were like “yeah bruh.”
It is not new. Many countries do not teach the full extent of their dangerous past(cough Britain cough). A very specific example I remember is when a group of white folks overthrew the local government(a party called Fusionists) in the town of Wilmington, North Carolina. For a very long time, information about it was kept under wraps and to this day, people on the wrong side of history have had places named after them in their honor.
Other than a few small skirmishes, what have the British done? I mean it’s one small island, how many countries could it oppress? 10?
Are you joking?
I would assume so. Because Brits, in all seriousness, are possibly responsible for more border conflicts than any(looks at the Flashpoint that is India Pakistan border).
In less seriousness, the tea trade used to be serious business.
No, I’m IDontHavePantsOn.
America teaches it, stupid people just don’t pay attention.
They even gave them super warm and soft blankets!
Land’s cursed. Almost as if America was built on top of an ancient Native American burial ground or something.
don’t write him off as stupid. this isn’t a person trying to be correct and failing. this is a person trying very hard to establish a world in which the truth is irrelevant, and instead from moment to moment the truth is whatever they need it to be in order to justify their positions and actions.
Mexico: “Say whaaaaaaaaaa!?!”
The Mexican-American disagreement.
A special military operation
If only he or his constituents cared about facts or competence.
Lol what a great title. These chumps need more of it.
Puerto Ricans: “Why the fuck do you think we speak Spanish, pendejo?”
I’d love to see Puerto Rico to become a state, just because I think it’d be cool, but I wouldn’t blame them one bit for looking at the asshats on the mainland and wanting to get away. Either way, their current status shouldn’t continue.
I think a successful completion of a deep national and international history course together hard exams should become a prerequisite for any political office in the US.
I’d be happy if they had to pass the same test they make immigrants pass.
Well you know what they say about Kevin…he’s stupid.
No, he’s a Nazi.
Embarrassment upon embarrassment upon embarrassment upon…
The United States didn’t buy The Philippines or Puerto Rico. It did buy the Western States.
It bought some of the western states. It flat out stole the rest.
It bought them all, but Mexico was really poor so they got it cheaper. The US was willing to pay $50 million.
No. It did not.
The US did offer to buy the territories, Mexico said no, then the US invaded and took them. During the peace process after the war, the US then paid less than half of the initial offer for the territories that it was never going to give back.
Later, the US bought a sliver of land on the border for a slightly inflated price, but that was its own thing.
But you can’t really call an armed invasion, and then a pittance paid out in damages, to be “Buying them all”.
The United States could have just taken all of Mexico, but it didn’t. It paid for the land. The population of the western states was made up of Americans anyhow, less than a thousand Mexican citizens lived in those areas at the time.
Someone: puts a gun to your head and says “I’ll give you $4 for your car”.
You: “This is a free and fair trade.”
That wasn’t the case, the Mexican government was run as an oligarchy. The United States threat was to threaten to turn over their lands to the public.
The US took most of the land from Mexico that was worth taking. There’s little viable agricultural land south of Texas. Also, it put a lot of land in between Mexico and New Orleans, which is an incredibly important international port. With that secured, no foreign army would be able to threaten that port without major logistics challenges, much less fighting through the US Army and every local citizen with a gun.
The US grabbed what it wanted and let Mexico keep the scraps.
That is looking at it from today, not from how it was viewed then. The main reason Mexico was fine with selling was the massive desert that separated the two areas and the extremely violent native population that inhabited the region. That reason didn’t become peaceful until the 1920s.
The US bought the Philippines from Spain for $14 million. Then fought a war with the Filipinos.
Well, Spain didn’t ask them.
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We didn’t get California and Texas by war, we got that by Devine right. Manifest Destiny.
I dunno who Devine is, but they clearly dont grasp the concept of rights
We picked it right off de vine.
Pretty sure they’re a drag queen, but I don’t know why they’re being brought up in this context.
