Why was it so Kino and why is it so underrated historically speaking? It felt like a passing of the torch between Old World and New World powers
>>18445351Because its short and it ruins America's le champion of freedom narrative with the horrendous shit they did in colonizing the Philippines.>passing the torch.Spain was so mentally buckbroken at losing their remaining colonies they literally had a cultural soul searching period about wtf they are now that their empire was gone.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_of_%2798
Daily reminder Spain beaten Americans in every single battery and only lost because of traitor scum
>>18445355>Spain was so mentally buckbroken at losing their remaining colonies they literally had a cultural soul searching period about wtf they are now that their empire was gone.I feel like a lot of former empires go through similar movements, like Europe as a whole in the aftermath of the Second World War began focusing on culture and personal wellbeing
>>18445355>ruins America's le champion of freedom narrative with the horrendous shit they did in colonizing the Philippines.don't forget about Cubans and Puerto Ricans. Cuba became a whorehouse and Puerto Rican women were raped hard by Americans in fact they forgot how to speak Spanish because of that
It was a negotiated defeat. Spain prefered a quick defeat to the USA than losing a protracted war to cuban and filipino independentists.
>>18445351>Bullying a decaying power while they’re trying to manage their own colonies so they can feel better about themselves>American literally just became the embodiment of the “I wouldn’t say freed, more like under new management” meme, eschewing any pretense of being le underdog freedom fighter. >Becoming despotic and cruel hegemon of Cuba and PhilippinesAt least previous empire don’t have any pretense of being some benevolent bestower of freedom, the US is the only one that made that their identity while just being like every other empire that came before it.
>>18445690Freemasons really want you to believe that
>>18445356Only naval battles matter
>>18445732>Victorian era UK
The whole period before WWI was so cool because it had so many interesting, low-stakes wars. I'm really not interested in massive bloodbaths with apocalyptic stakes, I'd rather read about a handful of redcoats going on a jolly adventure in Afghanistan.
>>18445925The mentality of the era was that of "Cabinet wars", small short wars fought for prestige and economic benefits, that the dude on the street would only really know they happened from the newspaper headlines
>>18445351the spanish were a broken people by that point, it was like slapping around a dementia-addled pensioner in a retirement home
