Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "How the U.S. Stole Mexico" video.

  1. Yup. John C. Calhoun was a major dope for thinking that way. Were it not for him, the USA and Mexico would be a single nation and likely better off.
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  2. Roland From which power? The Muslims? The Spanish? The Americans? Why not discuss the future Chinese hegemony over the Philippines while at it?
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  3. Señor Flores It gives better understanding of why American settlers were invited in the first place. The video fails to mention that the Mexican government was wary of the Comanche tribe and wanted whites to be the punching bag for them instead of themselves. That, and collecting of taxes off the Texans would help to stabilize what was then a financially unstable new country.
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  4. CrashDavi Damn Americans stole South Korea from Kim Il Sung.
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  5. The US stole PR off of a dying European power that stole it off of the natives who had no standing armies to defend themselves from aggression of any sort. Irony is that the US now wants to get rid of PR, going as far as to offer it to the Danes in trade for Greenland. The Danes said no thanks, we don’t want those people and the Greenlanders actually asked what they had done so bad as to be compared to PR.
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  6. EmiGondor Spain never worked with the US or France to properly delineate their colonial borders, which led to conflict. That, and the Mexican government knew full well they were letting settlers bring slaves in because they issued papers to them to allow them to enter in the first place. The whole “Mexico didn’t know about the slaves” narrative in this video is bullshit. The Mexican government was very selective in who they allowed into East Texas and documented every individual who agreed to work land. Taxation was their primary reason for this.
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  7. Apache land, not Mexican. The Mexicans were terrified to enter the area which is why it was easy for the US to capture it early in the war. The only difference between the Americans and Mexicans was that the Americans were more adept at wielding military solutions when it came to the natives.
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  8. There was a running joke in the maritimes back when Quebec was talking up secession that every Premier had the White House phone number on speed dial in case of it happening.
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  9. Carlos Carlin A terrible shame.
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  10. Tony Zan Pretty much, though the first owner should always be deemed the one who had at least a little intent on defending it.
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  11. Rohan Dick Yes if you compare to the current China-India debacle. But Chinas south see claims have no historical counterpart. They are full of crap.
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  12. julian blanco Genghis Khan would strongly disagree with you.
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  13. julian blanco Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh and Alexander the Great look at you puzzled...
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  14. julian blanco Please explain the difference between empire building and imperialism.
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  15. Trump has been trying to get rid of PR. Nobody wants it so far, and they don’t want independence because they know what that means. Exhibit A: Haiti.
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  16. Philippines has been independent since 1946.
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  17. Marsel • Trump tried to trade PR last year. It may be a nice place, but Trumps optics are through the Bronx lens.
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  18. That land you speak of is the area from the 1763 proclamation line (which was a farce from the beginning as there were already settlers west of it well beforehand) to the Mississippi River. It was not originally British though. Prior to that it was French, and prior to that it belonged to nobody because while there were native inhabitants, there was no unified government amongst the tribes and no standing military to defend it. Nomadic tribes at constant war with each other and hatching deals with outsiders is a recipe for failure.
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