Never existed? Are you implying that the USS Maine never existed? Are you high?

Megalodon don’t waste your time on these idiots.

@@megalodon7916 i believe he is talking about Golf of Tonkin incident

@@miroslavtordaji1675 That actually did happen, it was just blown out of proportion in the official report. The NSA reported two incidents collectively known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, one on August 2 and one on August 4, 1964. We know for certain that the first incident, in which three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the destroyer USS Maddox, did occur. Maddox was reinforced by four aircraft from the Ticonderoga, and the battle ended when the torpedo boats withdrew after all three received damage, four North Vietnamese sailors were killed, and 6 wounded. The Maddox and one of the aircraft was damaged, but no Americans were killed or hurt. The second incident, while officially reported as an attack, was actually just Americans ships firing on false radar images. It was reported as an attack even though no one could confirm an attack occurred and no evidence of wreckage or other traces of an enemy presence could be found. Today, Vietnam has acknowledged that the first attack happened, but confirmed there were no North Vietnamese boats anywhere near American ships on August 4.

@@megalodon7916 i know what happened there(no need to quote Wikipedia).... Its quite similar to USS Maine aftermath: attack that never happened was used as an excuse for military involment/attack

Only to be annexed by the U.S. and then achieve true independence in 1902 when even then they got a dictator obedient to the Americas until 1957. Sadly then only to remain a puppet, this time of the USSR. Only in the 21th century has Cuba become truly free.

@@markos9531 The people are still slaves of the Castro family.

@Tessellation not all cubans fought against Spain and supported independence; in fact, 2/3 of the island's population was loyalist to Spain, either wanting to keep Cuba as an integral spanish province or as a more autonomous part of Spain.

In spanish schools they tell us that this was a false flag.

@@VitalMusic217 Both are wrong.

@@megalodon7916 IT was a false flag operation, just like all the times the US has done it.

@@15241 No, it wasn’t.

@@megalodon7916 enlighten us, please.

Remember how a dishonest press used an industrial accident to make a profit deepblue64.

Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. Those who remember history are born to lead it.

Well, you see, America had a lot of interests in Cuba and the Philipines. They had invested in a lot of business and they were highly strategic: by having domains in the Caribbean, a building of a channel to connect with the Pacific would be easier, and from the Philipines, they could trade with China. Indeed, during this century, the United States made many offers to Spain to buy its colonies, which obviously it rejected. Spain at that time was a very weak country and it had a lot of independentists movements in both colonies, so the Americans saw it as an opportunity to support these movements to expel Spanish authorities and settle there. During the XIXth Century, American journals such as the "New York Journal" of Hearst published fake news about Spanish actions over the rebels (this is considered to be the origin of the "yellow press"), portraying Spain as a semi medieval and tyrannical country. It was part of the American "manifest destiny" to take part and expand his progress and "democracy". While they claimed to be neutral, they provided economical and material support to the Cuban rebels by illegal dealing. So, in 1898, Maine, a battleship, arrived at La Habana (a town that was in peace despite the Second Cuban Independence War), theoretically to protect American citizens and interests in the island. They arrived without noticing it to the Spanish authorities, but still let them in, as Spain didn't want to enter a war with the United States, which they would surely lose. Despite the cordial relations between captain Sigsbee and the town authorities, the American press went on with its Anti-Spanish propaganda (which was answered with Spanish Anti-American propaganda too); and when the explosion happened, it was assumed that it was a Spanish aggression. So the war began, in three different places: Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philipines, the three remaining main Spanish overseas territories, and, well, you already know how it went. Most researchers point that the explosion was due to a malfunction in the boiling room, and not a Spanish mine.

The Maine was going to be scrapped because it had a serious design flaw: the main guns had been placed on something similar to balconies on both sides of the ship, not on the axis of the ship resting on the keel but resting on the shell (the frames and the iron plates that formed the hull, not welded together but joined by rivets). The Maine's two main problems were that those gun balconies prevented another ship from coming alongside her to supply coal, so she couldn't receive coal being at sea far from land, and another problem was that the gunshots of the cannons caused strong vibrations that were transmitted to the lining of the sides of the ship, loosening the rivets and separating the iron plates, causing a lot of water to enter. In addition, the steam engine was already very obsolete. When it had been decided to scrap it, someone had the idea of ​​sending it to the bay of Havana "to defend the rights of North American citizens who were in Cuba" ...how? The ship appeared in Havana...and fortunately the Spanish Governor of Cuba (who was a Freemason) INVITED ALL HIS OFFICERS TO A RECEPTION DANCE, which all the officers attended, and fortunately that is when it exploded, when there was no officer on board. Faced with the accusation of a Spanish attack, the Spaniards said that "no fish had died, something that would have happened if the explosion had been outside the ship, from which it was deduced that the explosion had been into the ship", however the Americans ordered attack the Spanish ships "without declaring war them before, (like Japonese in Pearl Harbor!)", Americans attacked several Spanish ships...and only two weeks later they declared war to Spain with retroactive effects (the prize was to put them up for sale at public auctions enormous extensions of Cuba, more than half of Cuba, certificates for cultivation, which were property of the Kingdom of Spain and in which only cattle were allowed to graze but not to cultivate and which after the war were bought for a very low price by wealthy Cuban masons and North Americans)

The Philippines were a Spanish colony. So were Puerto Rico and Guam. Imperialism: all the cool kids were doing it.

It is.

It was not. Ignore the idiotic conspiracy theorists. The USS Maine was a poorly designed battleship. She was originally designed to be an armored cruiser, but she was too slow to be one, barely able to make over sixteen knots, and even then only if conditions were ideal. Thus, she was reclassified as a battleship, but even then her guns weren’t as powerful and her armor wasn’t as thick as other battleships. The end result was a horrible ship that combined features of an armored cruiser and a battleship but couldn’t compete with other ships of either type. If that weren’t enough, the coal used on her had a nasty habit of producing highly flammable gas mixtures, and safety features to prevent a fire were virtually non-existent. Finally, to top it all off, the powder room was right next to the coal storage area, and it was only separated by a weak bulkhead that had a gap in it. It was not a safe ship, and it’s pretty obvious from the evidence that the explosion was caused by a fire in the coal bunker which quickly ignited the powder.

@@megalodon7916 it was accident the American press used to press for war.

It isn’t. It was an accident that was taken up by the media.

The most golden part is that he wasn't going for the "disheveled" look at all!

@@zackstrong8034 6 yrs ago, hmm? Ok now I see it again, his glasses are on at quite a tilt.

I'm glad

@@alfredprieto1294 Your comment reflects badly on you, rather than him or I...

@@b_uppy I don't care. I have no shame like your people.

@@alfredprieto1294 Put some clothes on, you need it...

@@b_uppy Sorry for your loss

Unfortunately, the US became the spearhead for any conflict initiated by the United Nations. If the UN voted for military involvement, then the US was tasked with leading the charge. Korea was a good example for that.

imperialist war

yep most wars have started this way throughout history and the children are lied to

Not exactly. This was an unfortunate accident that the media and a paranoid, increasingly anti-Spanish government and American public believed was an attack. The Gulf of Tonkin was a minor incident that involved a small attack on a US destroyer by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats that the NSA reported as multiple attacks on multiple vessels on two separate occasions. The attack happened, it was just blown out of proportion in the report.

The Turner C Joy, currently resides at the shipyard in Bremerton, WA.

you really believe Spain attacked???? Think dude

Spain didnt do anything

It was an accident...

Spain didnt hit them, USA was looking for made up bs reasons to attack Spain

Spain was wayyy to weak at the time to start a war lol

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@@camaraco1234 HAVANA OO NANA

I left my heart out in Havana oo nana🤪

Spain sent troops to Pensacola; Florida went back to being Spanish. Also, the two wars were more than a century apart.

The spanish were forced* to give the Philippines to the Americans in exchange of money

with a gun at their head, plomo o plata

we had ZERO chances, was a false flag

@@diegoapalategui579 It wasn’t a false flag. It was an accident on a very poorly designed ship with virtually no safety features to prevent an explosion should the fuel be ignited.

@@megalodon7916 Sure, sure, that is why they created the environment for the war before the false flag through Randolph Hearst newspapers, that is why they anchored a battleship in Spanish waters without permission, and that is why they made up a false Spanish attack refusing to investigate the cause...and finally that is why they declared a war on Spain right afterwards, not only in Cuba but also in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, which they took over. Come on...

@@diegoapalategui579 No one created the environment for war. Hearst was simply guilty of yellow journalism. The American public was already sympathetic to the Cuban cause, and had been long before the war. Plus, Cubans in the United States were waging a propaganda campaign to garner support. The most significant group was the “Cuba Libre” movement led by José Martí until his death in 1895. Another was Tomás Estrada Palma, who lived for a time in exile in the United States. The Maine was sent to Cuba amidst rising tensions to protect American businesses and citizens in Cuba. As I said, she was a poorly designed ship. Her fuel was highly combustible, and there was little separating the fuel from the powder. Also, there was an investigation by a board of inquiry led by Captain William T. Sampson. They concluded an external explosion caused the powder magazines to ignite. Later investigations refuted the claim, but by then the war was over.

Spanish Navy had one unfinished battleship (didn't have all its main armament yet). They had no capital ships to deploy. They sent all their best cruisers and it didn't matter. By the late 1800s, Spain was a shell of its former glory. It never really recovered from the Napoleonic Wars until after Franco.

They lied to you, mate.

@@dyowzhars9400 like if we didnt know that