The $20 Million War America Forgot: How McKinley Stole The Philippines
What if America's origin story as an anti-colonial republic was just good marketing? In 1898, the United States paid Spain $20 million (about $650 million today) to buy the Philippines like a piece of real estate. Tyler Cooper reveals how one carefully orchestrated attack turned America from revolutionary underdog into empire overnight, contradicting everything we're taught about American values. 🎯 What You'll Learn: • How Theodore Roosevelt secretly planned the Philippine attack while pretending to focus on Cuba • Why the U.S. ignored 30,000 years of Filipino civilization and an active…
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