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A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard.
One of the first American battleships, the Maine weighed more than 6,000 tons and was built at a cost of more than $2 million. Ostensibly on a friendly visit, the Maine had been sent to Cuba to protect the interests of Americans there after a rebellion against Spanish rule broke out in Havana in January.
An official U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry ruled in March that the ship was blown up by a mine, without directly placing the blame on Spain. Much of Congress and a majority of the American public expressed little doubt that Spain was responsible and called for a declaration of war.
Subsequent diplomatic failures to resolve the Maine matter, coupled with United States indignation over Spain’s brutal suppression of the Cuban rebellion and continued losses to American investment, led to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in April 1898.
Within three months, the United States had decisively defeated Spanish forces on land and sea, and in August an armistice halted the fighting. On December 12, 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed between the United States and Spain, officially ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire with the ceding of such former Spanish possessions as Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.
In 1976, a team of American naval investigators concluded that the Maine explosion was likely caused by a fire that ignited its ammunition stocks, not by a Spanish mine or act of sabotage.
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That would be my first suspicion. Someone tryin’ to sneak one in while the smoking lamp was out.
There is a good reason WHY the smoking lamp exists. Doubt it to your doom.
I’ve known several men who were a little too comfortable smoking around black powder. I say “known” because every one of them is now dead. Blown to Hell and gone for their stupidity.
wow. It just occurred to me that, while I am not myself” a lover of the bomb”, I certainly found myself in the company of those who did. I guess I was lucky I didn’t realize how crazy they were until after the fact. considering how things turned out.
Just another one in a long line of false flags designed to enter America into immoral wars of conquest.
The USS Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, 9 Eleven, is there a war in the past 150 years that hasn’t been instigated or known beforehand by our own government?
Great p.r. stunt to provide another fine opportunity for “bringing them Democracy…”
(The desire to pillage and plunder, in traditional muh-capitalism and colonialism, is too strong to prevent these sort of events from happening.)
Rinse’n repeat.
They managed to somehow avoid any mention of Hearst.
The first place one would do well to go
when considering the veracity of ALL
major events in world history, is straight
to doubt. It’s not like lying to the masses
is a new hobby.
Who made the claims?
Who benifits?
How did citizens react?
Was their reaction what was intended?
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On this day in history,
An obsolete US Navy ship was maybe*
exploded in Havana harbor providing
Hearst News Service with an “unprovoked attack” as the justification for a colonial
war with Spain.
This all occured near the drydocks where
it is realistically feasable to imagine
workers busying themselves reflagging
the USS Maine as another US Navy
matching class ship.
*Or no ship exploded at all and the entire
story is as true as the Gulf of Tonkin disinfo.
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Added bonus?
The DOJ can then bill congress for the “new ship” they had built out of a coat of paint.
The first false flag of our government? Not super familiar with what got the war of 1812 started, but I suspect that there were shenanigans going on there too, since is was really just a war to invade and steal/”liberate” Canada from the British.
Actually, it was more to get the US back under the British …
After more than a hundred years of investigations and theories it was finally determined that it was a coal bunker explosion and not a Spanish mine. Coal dust can be pretty damned explosive as can flour dust and even grain elevators.
True Snuff, the Blue Union boys would drag sacks of flour through southern houses on horseback. The house would fill with flour, then they’d toss in a lit lantern to blow it to pieces.
I can see those bastards doing that.