A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing more than 260 of the 350-plus 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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Faked attacks list:
1898 The Maine
1915 The Lusitania
1041 Pearl Harbor
1963 Gulf of Tonkin
2003 Weapons of mass destruction.
Add any more you know.
HEY!…HOW ABOUT 9/11 TOO!…AND ALL THE MANY OTHER “STAGED” EVENTS SINCE THEN…WORLD-WIDE!?!
How many times a day do you shit your pants, dude?
It Depends?
Add any more you know.
I think a better term might be “staged attacks,” “attacks that were ALLOWED to happen,” or “attacks that were provoked and allowed to happen.” Gulf of Tonkin was pure BS of course, but the previous three fall into one of those three alternatives. They most certainly were not “faked,” but they certainly didn’t happen the way the government DESPERATELY NEEDS us to believe.
9/11 is a pretty obvious one
IDK
IDC
IDGAF
It’s just one of those days.
Zoloft can help with that.
Ammunition explosions were pretty common in battleships back then. Even in World War One, the Brits lost a number of battleships due to exploding cordite.
‘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.’
So … THAT’s how We The People got snookered into being saddled with invaders from PR, Guam and the Philippines … and it’s been downhill ever since.
And wasn’t it convenient that the whole event was proven to be the bunkum … that we got into the war there under false pretenses?
And, just for giggles, there was no specific information in this article or any I’ve found as to just what those ‘US interests’ in Cuba were … other than to mention sugar and mining. Dollars to donuts those sugar interests were owned by the Fanjul family that has extensive sugar interests in FL … Spanish jews who migrated to Cuba and got into the sugar business there before expanding into FL in the mid-20th Century.
SSDD …
Should Spain sue the United States fed government for defamation of character and for war crimes?
Attacking another country because of your own incompetent navy, seems a bad idea.
William Randolph Hearst. Yellow journalism, Theodore Roosevelt, modern take on the Monroe doctrine and a desire to clean up and take over the island, removing the Spanish from the northern Caribbean. See contemporary Hispaniola.
Remember the Maine…it was one of the Banksters early FF.