Ive seem some posts and comments saying stuff where the US test weapons on european citizens, where the US extracted criminals from european countries (mainly Italy) because they where from the US army or the inteligence agencies, where they sacrificed european and japanese economies during US crisis, where they tested weapons on soldiers of their own allies without their consent, where he spyed on european leaders, where they extracted people that angried the US using illegal means and reasons (Assange is a good example of this) and much more shit.
How many of this cases are out there? How fucked is the relationship between the US and its allies that it constantly abuses them just because he can?
The circumstances at the end of the Spanish-American war, and how they triggered the Philippine-American war.
To cut a long story short, the Katipunan (Filipino Independence movement) found itself working alongside the US. Friends by way of a mutual enemy, as it were.
Spain made peace with the US, and sold the Philippines to the USA. At this point the Filipinos, having done most of the work of liberating themselves, were jointly sieging Spain’s last holdout in Manila with US forces. Without a word to the Filipinos from either party, the Spanish quietly opened the gates of Manila and let the yanks in. Just the yanks.
Further reading can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/362730.In_Our_Image Unfortunately I don’t have an online source, just paper book.
That book is what set me down the anti-imperialism path though. It’s good.
Ive readed about the american phillipine war, it was absolutelly terrible, if i remember well, 10% of the phillipine population died, the americans aways where absolute snakes and backstabbers, worse even then some european imperialists at the time BEFORE becoming the big main imperialist power.