FOREIGNER reacts to How the US STOLE The PHILIPPINES

and then you start to see these like crazy advertisements the first step towards lightning The White Man's Burden is through teaching the virtues of cleanliness and on the sides you have soap being offloaded in the Philippines and being given to them what the heck it was so racist it's so bad this is probably one of the videos that you have been waiting for what's up Philippines welcome back to another action video with your host Nelly I'm so happy to see your smiling faces again today I am referring to a video that was recommended to me several times and then recently A friend of mine said do you let it guide Who does these very interesting videos about like random stuff and he knows he's like so knowledgeable and I'm like I don't know and then I watched one of the videos and I was like that face looks familiar and I know I realized that he made a video about the Philippines and the video is how the U.S stole the Philippines pretty long video so I'm probably going to split up in two videos part one and part two so welcome to part one I'm going to jump straight into it let's go there is a cluster of 7 000 islands that looks like one of the most beautiful places on Earth yeah people have been living here for over 30 000 years traveling between these islands trading with each other and with the region and developing religion identity and culture it eventually became a country called ma'i and while all of these advancements were Happening Here on these islands humans had been evolving in another part of the world over here in Europe oh yeah Spain but this other group had a different music a different religion many of their advancements were achieved through expansion not collaboration [Music] and their religion thrived when they stomped out others they wanted to come yeah the Conquering times these islands these people this culture would soon be swallowed stripped of what made them them and soon their name would be changed after the name of the king of their country yeah that's where the names this is the story just about a big powerful military taking over new lands we know that story pretty well the story of these people offers A New Perspective to anyone who will listen it's a perspective that has been wiped from our history books it's so weird to see United States intention with this fact that the United States once a colony that heroically threw off an Empire to become independent soon became an Empire itself it contradicts our founding belief that it is quote self-evident that all men are created equal and this story is just history that Empire still exists today with Colonial possessions and subjects it's all right up in the story of these seven thousand islands and their people so I want to tell you the story stole the Philippines there are still American citizens today who do not have equal voting rights these are citizens of America's Island territories [Music] that is such an interesting topic because just recently I was traveling to the US and they asked me do you have an onward ticket and I said yeah I have an onward ticket to Mexico and they said well that doesn't count because it's U.S territory I'm like what do you mean it's a U.S territory it's not the United States it's Mexico so I learned that U.S territory is the United States of America Mexico Canada and then like a lot of the British islands around the Caribbean and like a bunch of other Islands I'm like whoa this is like so complicated so I needed to book a flight somewhere that is outside of the United States Territory that's kind of like very complicated born on U.S soil except in one jurisdiction this video could be called how Spain stole the Philippines since Spain was the first nation to conquer to control these islands like 500 years ago actually exactly 500 years ago and indeed Spain left a very deep influence on these islands not least the name itself which is named after King Philip Spain brought their religion their language their culture which is why the most common last names in the Philippines are like Reyes or Del Rosario De La Cruz De Los Santos but the Heyday of the Chicago Empire came and went and by the 1800s it was kind of crumbling but it was the arrival of a new superpower that I believe had a bigger imprint not just on the Philippines but on the US itself it established rules and behaviors that we still grapple with today and that's why this is the story yeah I need to understand why it crumbled maybe you guys know maybe comment down below section I would really love to have a better understanding of what led to the US to take over um with today and that's why this is the story of how the US stole the Philippines so let's go to this day we can see the traces of the almost 400 years of Spanish rule over the Philippines [Music] everything looks so different in the United States okay so it's the end of the 1800s up until now U.S expansion sort of looks like this it's all happening on this Mainland and at this point there sort of became a big debate of like do we keep going some people wanted to keep expanding the us outside of this Mainland the president don't they own a big expansion guy but he was surrounded by people who loved War specifically this guy and these people who surrounded the president had their eye on this Spanish colony right off the American Coast called Cuba where the locals were rising up against Spain wait a minute isn't this a video about the Philippines why are we talking about Cuba we're getting there in just a second okay so anyway Cuba Americans didn't want to go to Ward with Cuba they're like we don't need more war but thanks to the explosion of an American submarine in Cuba which was probably an accident and thanks to some highly unethical journalism that blamed the explosion on Spain and a big thanks to again this guy Teddy Roosevelt who at this point was just a peon he was literally the assistant Secretary of the Navy but he somehow cajoled his boss's boss the president of the United States to go to war in Cuba to like Liberate the Cubans from Spain so the U.S declared war on Spain in 1898. but this begins a new sorry that um I'm really trying to not talk and just listen now to have a better understanding of you know all the whole construct of how it actually happened the era of War in the United States no longer can you just go into war and just like take over land you need an angle you need to sell the war to the American people so the angle on this war was Liberation we were liberating the people the people you liberate will witness The Honorable decent Spirit of the American Military no no no no that's that's later we're talking about 1898. but yes the whole idea of selling War to the American public didn't really go away after this why did the U.S go to war in Iraq in the early stages of military operations so anyway the US is now at war with Spain which is an Empire that is deeply in Decline as I mentioned it's not going to be hard to win but soon it's not just Cuba the U.S really meaning Teddy Roosevelt who again is just an assistant Secretary of the Navy he's like not a big decision maker he somehow Maneuvers the situation to say like let's liberate next door Puerto Rico and while we're at it let's go into the Pacific and liberate Guam in the Philippines from Spain as well Teddy didn't even ask his boss to do this he literally sent off a cable to the Navy commander in Asia that was like George Dewey go attack the Philippines where Spain is that is what your mandate is and George Dewey's like okay I'm being told to go crazy Spain in the Philippines Teddy was sort of of the mind like better to ask forgiveness than permission I mean I get that [Laughter] he pulled it off anyway and now because of Teddy Roosevelt who we literally named the teddy bear after side note we are at War not in the Caribbean only but also in the Pacific the U.S arrived and not all makes sense to me also like with Guam and it makes sense Philippines and sees that the locals had already been fighting against the Spanish for like years the Spanish were weak and were totally declining so it's like the top of the ninth inning or like the fourth quarter of the Spanish in the Philippines and the US shows up and it's like let us liberate you and the Philippines were like well we've sort of already been fighting this bloody war for years against the Spanish so yeah I guess United States if you want to come help us deal the final blow to Spain like sweet so George Dewey this Navy commander and his Fleet show up to Manila meanwhile back in the U.S people are like wait weren't we just supposed to invade Cuba what are we doing in the Philippines now and the US government's like because the Philippines is a perfect hub for commercial opportunities in Asia and we think that if we don't take it Japan or Germany might take it which would clearly diminish our geostrategic advantage it's just so insane they said I hate the people of the Philippines Liberate the people you liberate this is The Honorable indecent Spirit of the American Military sorry it's a very sensitive topic to me because my country wasn't during war as well well and there was also the U.S involved and yeah I got really emotional about it especially the U.S arrived to the Philippines and they're like great we're done so the Spanish military commanders asked to meet with the U.S military commanders they meet in secret and Spain's like listen I know we're losing but we really want to save some face here we don't want it to look like we lost to the Filipino revolutionaries and I'm not kidding the Spanish Commander literally said that he would quote be willing to surrender to white people but not to the Filipinos so the U.S Commander is like okay there's an opportunity here we said we were here to liberate the Filipinos but we haven't promised anything yet so we would much rather it look like the U.S defeated Spain instead of helped the Filipinos defeat Spain much better for our brand than the United States so together the United States and Spanish militaries organized a fake battle a fake battle in which the US would fight the Spanish in Manila and this Spanish would intentionally lose and the climax of this whole theatrical battle according to the plan was that at the end the U.S would storm towards the inner wall of the city of Manila the last stronghold of where the Spanish are oh and the key detail in this whole plan they would not let the Filipino Fighters the ones that had been doing all the actual fighting against the Spanish joined them as they stormed towards the walled City to deal the final blows to this Advantage their country and this would mean that the Filipinos technically didn't gain their independence it was actually the U.S who conquered the Spanish and then the Spanish are like oh can you give us 20 million dollars for our troubles and the US was like yeah sure so now the U.S wins the war and they claim sovereignty over the Philippines so yeah this happened they did the fake family they won the war instead of liberating the Filipinos they just say hey we're your new colonizers meanwhile back in the United States ah I don't know if you can see this but this gives me goosebumps I need to calm down this is just so bad what did I watch this we gotta keep up this white savior Liberation narrative that they created to justify going to war with Spain so you see a lot more theatrical PR by the government they staged this giant military parade in New York City where this military commander who did the fake War George Dewey marches down they called it Dewey Dave it was like a two-day parade in New York City they created a big like military arch for him he became like a military hero for having like liberated all these people from the Spanish and then you start to see these like crazy advertisements like this soap advertisement that has George Dewey the commander washing his hands with the caption quote the first step towards lightning The White Man's Burden is through teaching the virtues of cleanliness and on the sides you have soap being offloaded in the Philippines and being given to them what the heck the US had to frame this not as Conquest but as the honorable duty of the U.S to civilize these people or in the words of the so bad quote to brighten the dark corner that is insane like jeez okay like advertising back then it was just crazy like it was so racist it was just so it it just like it's so bad it's incredibly bad it's just so crazy to know how many times it got invaded and how much whoa the Filipino people have actually endured it's just mind-blowing ha [Music] ha ha