Not at all.
China is on the March in Central America
This is just getting started.
Posted on 12/30/2021 7:42:57 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
December 30 is Rizal Day (Araw ng Kabayanihan ni Dr. Jose Rizal in Tagalog) in the Philippines, for the execution that date in 1896 of the great martyr of Philippine independence.
At Jose Rizal’s birth in 1861, it had been 340 years since Magellan had reached (and died at) the Philippines under the Spanish flag.
In Rizal’s century of romantic nationalism, independence movements stirred abroad in the Spanish Empire … too weak yet in the Philippines and elsewhere during the mid-1800s, but unmistakably prefiguring those national destinies that this day’s victim would come to embody.
Oddly, Jose Rizal was not even the most “revolutionary” of his farming family’s 11 children. That distinction went to older brother Paciano, who was under an official cloud before Jose hit adolescence for his relationship with the Gomburza priests, and would later serve as a brigadier general in the revolutionary army of Emilio and would later serve as a brigadier general in the revolutionary army of Emilio Aguinaldo.
Jose was less strident — and more brilliant.
Though reputedly an adept fencer and crack shot with a pistol, the renaissance man’s gifts ran more to the life of the mind.
At the Universidad Central de Madrid, the University of Paris, and the University of Heidelberg, Jose Rizal studied ophthalmology and anthropology, and pursued the variegated artistic interests of his youth.....
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We should have given Hawaii and Puerto Rico independence just as we did The Philippines after WWII.
Maybe, but then we might have ended up without the use of Pearl Harbor just as we did Subic Bay.
... Puerto Rico would be a satellite state of Cuba/Venezuela............
Well then the US government should have made it worth their while to allow us to have bases there.
And with Hawaii we overthrew a legal Monarchy. And it never should have been a state.
The funny thing is now the population of the Philippines is well over 100 million, LOL imagine if we made it a State, how many electoral votes would it have. The candidates would just basically move to Manila for the campaign.
True, but we had Subic Bay when we needed it. And we were only thrown out by a one vote margin in the Phillippine Senate. Plenty of Filipinos want the US Navy back.
If we did, Hawaii would have Chinese warships docked there now.
Pure speculation.
I think Rizal saw that the people of the Philippines lacked a sufficient body of educated folks who could build the civic basis for a successful independence movement; something the British colonies in North America did not lack in the late 1700s. Even by the time of the American defeat of the Spanish, I think Filipinos lacked a sufficient core of folks that could have united the Philippine Islands (over 1,000) and built a modern nation in the late 1800s.
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