[alexander_busek]

Also didn’t we “stab” some of them in the back? [...] The Philippines by making them a colony for almost 50 years.

The Philippines only profited by being a U.S. Possession from 1898 until after WWII.

Regards,

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That is what empires always tell their possessions, but the Filipinos certainly didn’t like it when we announced we were making them our colonial possession — many Americans, who remembered our own revolution didn’t like it either.