If the carnage of Manila in 1945 did not happen, we would have had a very different Philippines today. Our momentum ran out and the other nations in Asia eventually surpassed it.
One for the atrocity list, if it’s not already there.
Yeah that war was absolutely brutal. Mark Twain suggested that the flag for the US-occupied Philippines should be “just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones.”
I’ll add.
The book I’m reading rn is about the Phillppine-American war. Absolutely tragic and disgusting what the US did.
Yeah that war was absolutely brutal. Mark Twain suggested that the flag for the US-occupied Philippines should be “just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones.”