38:30 The lecture suddenly skips, but he said: An account from the wreckage of Manila from a boy named Oscar: he met a G.I. who gave him chocolate and he replied with 'thank you very much.' The G.I. was confused and asked how he spoke English.
Thanks. The ubiquitous Catholic Church in the Philippines changed over from the Spanish Church to the American branch, which accounts for English preceding American forces. In the Visayas and especially Cebu, the language of Cebuano, also known as Visayan, has a lot of Spanish loan words, and in the Manila area, lots more English speakers with their telltale eggagerated American "r"s that you hear from call centers and filipina nurses in USA. A Visayan speaker such as my wife has more of a Spanish speaker's r's,
I am part- Hawaiian, Samoan and Puerto Rician, the history of how my people became a part of the United States needs to be taught, thank you for sharing this history. Mahalo nui loa
I totally agree, I have been researching just about everything and I am amazed at how much I don't have a clue about, your issue one of them, not even a whisper, I am now 63 F I cannot believe how much I never knew even happened. oh thanks for the internet.
I was born soon after World War II and raised in the Philippines but have lived in the United States for most of my adult life. My father served in the USAFFE under General McArthur. My children and grandchildren are Americans. In many ways, I am Filipino-American. Thank you for filling in the gaps in my understanding of the Philippines 🇵🇭 and the United States 🇺🇸 and the historical extent of American influence worldwide.
I strangely autoplayed from an initial viewing of a guppy breeding vid. This is a super gripping way of teaching me some history, of which I was previously ignorant!
@@moodist1er Thank goodness someone sees through this guy. He's very skilled at presenting a fact and then foisting his narrative onto the situation with no proof. I was especially upset how he concluded that the US strategic plan was to deal with Europe first and worry about the Pacific situation later because of the ethnicity of the respective populations. I would postulate that Germany (and Italy) were considered a bigger threat for multiple reasons: (1) Greater industrial capacity than Japan (2) greater military might than Japan (3) closer proximity to the US mainland (4) and others. While Japanese submarines did occasionally prowl the west coast, the German U-boats were wreaking havoc all along the east coast. Yamamoto said when the US carriers were not destroyed at Pear Harbor, the war was already lost. He knew that the Japanese military and industrial capacity was stretched to the limit and the only hope was to hurt the US bad enough to attempt for a stalemate. All this said, the US immediately launched offensives in the Pacific, it just took a few years to get all the way to the Philippines. Oh yeah, and where was the first significant US offensive in the European theatre?......North Africa, not what most people would consider a land of Anglo-Saxon peoples.
@@jonwalter6317 another reason to have prioritized Europe, was to bolster Britain, which was facing the eventual risk of starvation if the German U-Boat threat wasn't blunted. And before long, Britain was actually beginning to run low on men (around the end of the Battle of Normandy).... Britain lost a vastly higher % of their military-aged men than most Americans realize, from years of fighting in the Far East, Southeast Asia, Near East, North Africa, Battle of Britain, bombing campaign vs. Germany etc.
The narrative in Philippine history books is that we sort-of coalesced as a nation under the long rule of the Spanish, and the dramatic bit is us fighting for independence from Spain. US and Japanese rule aren't suppressed, people know, but that's not considered as significant. Filipinos feel kinda like the US and Japan were just passing through, an intermission between Spanish rule and real independence.
As a high school history teacher who teaches this topic, THANK YOU for educating others about it. Americans are not well educated on US imperialism, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine American War (and tragedies within it like the Moro Massacre), the annexation and coup in Hawaii, and US involvement in Latin America over the 20th century. More Americans died in the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) than in the Spanish-American War (1898), and while neither are discussed enough at least some Americans have heard of the Spanish-American War.
@@stephencorsaro954 sadly very true. The bias is very real in most classrooms, in both how things are explained & what is chosen to be focused on as well as left out.
So, how did you escape the total academic bias in favor of American imperialism during your academic history training? Or did you not escape that bias and learn about these topics only after grad school?
@@briananderson8428 after the civil war libraries were purged of historical records. But..in the some of these libraries the material was moved into the basements. Boston Public Library was one of the places that pamphlets, broadsides and personal correspondence got stored. There have been several basement floods over the years but in the seventies I spent several hundreds of hours searching and photographing documents. I wasn't the only one. There is information out there but it takes multiple sources to try to find the "truth" about all of US history. So much of it has been cleaned and so much propaganda has been created that it's not easy. There's many authors that have published deep dive history in every time frame in our history. When I was young I volunteered thru the Catholic Church to do elder home "visiting". Listening to people tell stories of their lives from the late 19th and early 20th century got me interested to begin with. I was shocked by the disconnect between their reality and what I was being taught that in made me curious.
@@briananderson8428 try reading some history by Gerald Horne to start. It will shock you and maybe start you down the road. You don't need a formal education unless you plan to use it for making money. Curiosity is a decent motivation.Why else do we need truth? And what is the quality of life without curiosity and imagination because without those we can't be creative. Mostly it's not to consider yourself a sheep.
For good portion of my life, the situation with the Philippines has always perplexed me. And the more I have researched the Philippines, the more disgusted I have become with the way that the United States has not only treated them but forgotten about them. I've been in the process of making a video about it for quite some time, and once in a blue moon do a bit more research. I got to say, I'm thankful to have come across this video and to find somebody who has a very similar perspective as I do. He hits the nail right on the head with a number of points I have found myself thinking in the exact same way.
It's built into the logic of colonialism. There's us and there's our colonies. If we are in danger, we must protect us at the expense of the colonies. They can be rebuilt later, us can't. For a really concise and clear treatise, read Thomas Moore: Utopia. This was perceived to be the best possible state of things.
Considering the timeline...the Philippines Independence was already on the schedule before December 7th, 1941 and and been anticipated in the US with some enthusiasm for decades, IIRC leaders from the Philippines here to argue for their Independence were greeted warmly. I would argue that the US/Philippines relationship as more of a "protectorate" (with all the negative and paternalistic connotations that go along with the use of the term) than a "colony". Unlike Hawai'i, the Philippines were on the way out of the immediate US Family with good feelings all around.
When i was into a deeper study into why the u.s. was involved in Philippine politics, i went deep into the rabbit hole that is the Philippine Revolution. . . And how america became it's protectorate. As i studied deeper, more holes in the history, and terminology appeared. For example: the Philippine Insurrection. Why is it called that when clearly, the u.s. forces were not native in this land.
@@markknife1 Seems fairly transparent that the US did not recognize a gap in ownership between the previous Spanish administration and their own. A clear title had been exchanged, so to speak. As well, it is an artifact of Colonialism...this seems fairly uncontroversial. It was a continuation of the existing anti colonial struggle which preceded the US presence. The Spaniards, who also were not native, called it an insurrection because they were an empire. The US found it convenient to use the same term for the same conflict when they tagged in. But they weren’t an empire like Spain, but actually bought into the whole white mans burden schtick and wanted to leave the place a functional democracy for our own ego gratification...also graft and corruption.
I was taught in a similar fashion to those 7th grade girls by my history dept at Columbine High School in the early 1990s. Bless good teachers. We need as many as we can get.
This is really a wonderful lecture. I'm old now and I never understood that Japan attacked all these places on Dec 7th. I guess I knew that they attacked and occupied the Philippines, but all I recall was that McArthur said "I shall return" ... I never really understood when this was all done. Thank you Daniel Immerwahr for your good work.
And because we had to spend lots of time and resources in order to massage MacArthur's giant ego, the war in the Pacific lasted longer than it should have.
It's crazy to me how little the Pacific theater is covered in school and media. Japan was such a bigger issue than Germany, but it's just glossed over.
@@leviswranglers2813 well the thing was that politically the war should have focused first on Japan on the American perspective but to aid in the allied effort overall it should be said the pull of the European powers had their influence and FDR's ideological disdain for Germany. More interestingly was how the US bungled their alliance with China undermining them cause the US commander was racist and also was aiming to overthrow the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek as well strategically leaving them out to dry and poorly coordinating with them. Causing the once well trained professional army of the Chinese Republic through casualties reduced to an exhausted and defeated force where the ccp threw out even though 90% of defending the Chinese homeland was done by the CRA.
@@mj6463 Thats an Alaskan thing :) We say the L48 as in everyone bellow Alaska, but we leave Hawaii separate because we are bros with them, and they are unique like us. So its all of yall down there in the L48, then us and Hawaii. And yes, the correct term is contiguous states, not to be confused with the continental states which include Alaska and not Hawaii.
Yes, & mostly in Mindinao, right where they continue to fight. And over 200,000 died in Manila alone in 1945 by the hand of the Japanese. Do you think Japan would have given independence as the US did in 1946?
@@edhuber3557 Considering how the US wasn't taking care of their own territory, it wouldn't have been unthinkable that if the Philippines got independence from the US that more favorable terms thsn absolute death and abuse could be agreed upon. Just look at what happened to Taiwan. Was in much better shape than thr Philippines was at the time despite becoming Japanese territory
@@carlosandleon probably because the Philippines put up an extremely strong defense and Japan was punishing them as well as using their resources to fuel their war effort. I mean cmon, are you even trying
the Reason why Hawaii was different -- culturally -- was due to RADIO. There was an immensely popular show called "Hawaii Calls" that played on the biggest radio broadcasters in the United States. It ran and ran. The voices on that show spoke ENGLISH with a California accent. Quite simply, everyone knew of Oahu and its harbor, Honolulu. The tunes played on the show were VERY Hawaiian. This was not a classics broadcast. The number of Americans who had visited the Islands was drastically larger than that visiting the Philippines. And it was the Pacific Fleet that had been attacked. The USAAF in the Philippines had virtually no assets (planes) until FDR decided to beef it up -- in 1941. Indeed, B-17s were being brought in to the Philippines pretty much under the radar. A loopy route was chosen so that Tokyo was supposed to be in the blind. As IF! (They had spies all over the Pacific.) In contrast, the typical American had no cultural connection to the Philippines -- Guam -- Wake -- most would be hard pressed to locate Singapore. Using such names would result in a word-salad for most listeners. BTW, The Philippines were already on a trajectory to become INDEPENDENT. Just another reason why American's did not consider it to be a colony. Americans thought that The Philippines belonged to the Filipinos -- not themselves. Similar attitudes exist even now WRT Puerto Rico and Guam. In classical imperial economics, the colonies support the center. With America, the center indulges its territories. They are DEPENDENCIES. All attempts to get Puerto Rico to declare independence have gone no-where. As for Guam, Guamanians are more American than Americans. They LOVE the flag. Japanese occupation will do that.
@TryllaTröllMaistre Fictitious Fables of Europa guess that´s what happens when they have higher rates of poverty than any us state and only like 3 universities
They actually purchase the Philippines and other Spanish colonies for $20 million. And then they fool the Filipinos with a mock battle between the Spanish troops when most of the American forces are going in Intramuros, Manila and finalizing the deal with the Spanish government.
I read the book and saw this video. I thought there was a correlation lol Amazing read. Kinda shakes you to your core n makes you think “what else is there that I can learn?”
Excellent presentation, excellent presenter! I'm very impressed with the presentation, and yeah, this is the first time I've really heard someone talk about the American Empire as just that, an empire. Good for him to make it clear.
I am Puerto Rican and I know in 1897 Spain granted us autonomy just like the same relationship that the UK and Canada have today, but the United States took Puerto Rico at gun point from Spain illegally, and the United States took away the our currency, the Puerto Rican peso, and 1901 Puerto Rico had a hurricane and the American banks with support of u.s. made sure you took away our land, my mother did what she could to get my grandfather's land back out to no avail!
The camera guys job is to capture the person speaking. If they wanted to show the pictures in this presentation they would have had to have someone edit it in post and put the pictures in. And that would require paying an editor. Or it would require a completely different set up from what they had to do a live feed that can have overlays show up. It would have been cool to see the pictures but I understand entirely why the camera guy didn't pan up. It would look stupid.
This is an AWESOME presentation about the United States and it's Empires. I've purchased the book and I can't wait to read it ... That's just a smidgin' of what this book has to offer with it's 22 exciting Chapters!
Officially, it's 'Conterminous United States' - because continental would include Alaska which CONUS does not. But 'contiguous' is also used and is appropriate for the usage. OCONUS is 'Outside the Contiguous United States' - and is used to refer to Alaska (and HI, PR, AS, G, etc), despite Alaska's clear presence on the North American continent. Alaska is not contiguous to the 48 states (and DC) which CONUS refers to.
Should be "Contagious", like a bad virus. Kidding. Maybe not. Why do they need to control every country in the world. Middle East.....the destabilized the entire region. Continual history of attacking countries and changing the property lines to destroy every CULTURE. Just like indigenous people, they tell them you are no longer allowed to speak your language or practice your culture. Same pattern so if you want us to believe they have the best interest of people, you have some explaining to do. Quote children....we do not believe this true. They change names of countries, take away their identity, split up neighbors and families and the list of Catholics/ Christians that have been genocided are too long to list. I think you apologists are paid to continue the disinformation campaigns that started before the British left and continues to this day. Many people who are traitors to America are willing to get pd to lie. I hope they remember that when their friend China and Other bought countries slaughter "We the people"
I suppose this presentation is for the ignorant masses? Alaska was sold to the US by Russia, and Russia wanted to. He also shies away from talking about Cuba after the war despite it also being a Spanish territory. No mention of all the US infrastructure, education, etc projects and how well the Philippines and others were treated compared to how the British, French, etc treated their territories. His stupidly simplistic explanation for why the Europe First strategy was adopted. Making it sound like the US completely abandoned the Pacific until the end of the war. The reason for cutting the Japanese off from escape because they were determined to fight to the death. The fact that MacArthur was one of the biggest advocates on behalf of Asians, etc. The fact that US territories like Guam have been asked repeatedly, yet don't want to become States, and don't want to be independent because they like where they are. On, and on, and on. This guy sounds great, but he's garbage. Blinded by some agenda or whatever? I don't know.
This guy Daniel Immerwahr would at best get a C or D+ for his misuse of facts and his interpretation of the same. He is just like hundreds of other American Bashers. American is the worlds favorite Nation to Hate. Despite this America has 40 million people as part of its population that were born somewhere else. If not more actual numbers change daily.
America nowadays: "Taiwan is independent clay!" America in WWII: "Hmm Philippines is our land, but that doesn't make them real Americans." UK in WWII: "Oi what do you mean Indians are people?" Germany in WWII: "Slav is uninhabited clay."
If you like this guy there is an excellent podcast called Hardcore History with Dan Carlin that goes over historical history that is often overlooked or comes at popular historical events from different angles.
I did like this guy. As Irish immigrant stock living in the UK I just love the "untold" histories. Thank you for the heads up on Hardcore History. I will definitely be checking that.
Indeed, his podcast series on Mongol conquests and East front of WW2 were my first windows into these topics and have left a deeper impression on me than any other books/documentaries on those subjects I've consumed since then.
My country is definitely part of the hidden Empire. When you have way more Mcdonald's, KFCs, Pizzahuts, Hardee's, and other American chain restaurants than local cuisine, when our supermarkets are filled with American products that has became essential to every house hold here, when people watch American movies, TV shows, and children cartoons and not local ones. When some people (dare I say most of the younger generation) know much more about the American culture and politics than our own local culture and politics. When our cities are designed almost exactly like American cities (ugly cities that are designed for cars and not for people) when I see Los Angeles, it just feels like any city in my country (when our ancestors had one of the best and most beautiful architecture and city design). When people's dreams became "owning two cars and a big villa" and that's all what life is about to them, money, money, money. When American military bases are everywhere in our country. Yea, we are so clearly yet stealthily colonised by the USA. Hint: my country has lots of oil 😉
@@yuzan3607 that was so eloquently written. Thank you for taking the time to write that. I really think you hit the nail on the head. I wish there was something I could do directly to address your issue as an American. Not everyone can live as an “American” there will never be enough resources in the world.
@The Omnissiah's Chosen I wrote “even” because his job was to glorify the Flavian family. Hence his adopted middle name: Flavius. I think the most important historian is Herodutus. Yes, his stories are heavily embellished, but not necessarily politically motivated.
Good on those Kalamazoo students. My aunt told me that during ww II she & my grandmother had purchased a world atlas that they used to track what was happening as they listened to the daily radio reports on the war.
Because 7th graders should determine everything. It sounds to me McNally was correct, and the State Dept only sided with the students to push a war that got 400k Americans killed.
I am surprised at the fact that after the end of he presentation, no questions arose from the public as to why Puerto Rico becomes a "territory" and Cuba does not, even though both become independent from Spain in a similar way. What are the reasons for this "lapsus"?
The declaration of war approved by congress instructed the president to make Cuba independent; the US was joining an 3-year-old war for Cuban independence. There was no such war in Puerto Rico (although Spain had just a few months before given Puerto Rico internal self government). So it really wouldn't have fit the political or legal narrative to make Cuba a US territory, but Puerto Rico and the Phillipines were kind of "bonus" aquisitions, outside the official purpose of the declaration of war.
Exactly. Cuba was given independence. P.Rico keeps voting to not get independence (less than 1%) or petition for Statehood around 47%. My guess is the reason for this laps is to push his Agenda.
Philippines was occupied by US and Japan, but it wasn't never really part of them. If it was something it was Spanish for centuries. You can't simply force-change an entire nation into being something they're not, even if you genocide their population like Japan but especially US did.
Hey super cool vid and I am so grateful it popped up on my recommended. As an American, I’m embarrassed I didn’t know any of this. Thank you for posting.
@@souljastation5463 Came to America as an immigrant, idk about the other states, but in nyc public schooling is a joke; And history as well, it’s mostly test prep with facts, ain’t deep in any sense; Yet as an overview, all classes I took in HS were on average everything I‘ve learnt 2 yrs ago back in Europe, but it was nice I made no effort, and had a lotta free time cause I didn’t need to study just review some things
@@souljastation5463 That's the same school that teaches them that the settlers only made fair trades with native americans, and that communism = totalitarism. Nothing surprising here. It's called propaganda, and it starts early.
@@duconmicro4331 I've never heard in any school rejecting the genocide, displacement, treaty violations, or violence of American colonial or westward expansions, even in conservative states where they have legitimate lessons about local figures and their violent acts especially in the western states of Kansas or Texas. Maybe in eastern states this is more common to suppress the ethnic political conflicts that may arise but where the majority of native and foreign displacements and conquests are covered if only briefly in common high school curriculums, except maybe Hawaii since I've never seen their curriculum. And there isn't usually a ideological bend to teaching communism in a lot of American education to equating that Communism is totalitarian just that the most relevant to world history happen to be both and don't have education of it's real criticism. Like Cultural, Religious, and Class genocide both metaphorically and literally.
@@duconmicro4331 I learned more about the noble savage myth from my public school teachers than I did anywhere else. I didn’t learn about the WWII groundswell of support for the soviets in American intellectual circles so great the New York Times buried the holodomor from the American people to manipulate public support for tankie ideas. Maybe worst of all however, is in this very talk, Daniel here specifically uses humor to lighten the image of an iconic left wing figure, FDR, without bringing to light the reason the wanted to sweep the Philippines (or more likely the Filipino people) under the rug was just as likely because the president was a vehement racist on par with some of our worst and perhaps didn’t mind the idea of Asian people killing each other en masse.
Man, there is so much about this talk that I like. And the speaker says several times "but it was war". But his overall thrust doesn't seem to respect that. Japan was beyond brutal. Everyone likes to focus on Europe because the pacific theater was nothing but tears and the US wasn't given a choice in the matter.
@@ramel684 unless you were there (and sometimes even if you were) untangling what really happened versus what people think happened is always a delicate matter. That being said, most historians (across most countries) agree Japan was "beyond brutal".
@@ramel684 You forget that the Japanese Imperialist Empire being 'brutal' is not only substantiated by the US, but also the asian countries they ruled over during that period and accounts from the Japanese people themselves.
17:05 Alaska was purchased in 1867, not annexed in 1857. It was a negotiated deal initiated by the Russians who lost interest after depleting the sea otters and saw that their main rival, the British, could and perhaps would easily overtake Alaska from Canada and it was better to sell to America before that happened to not get the British as neighbors just across the Bering strait. This was just after loosing to the British (among others) in the Crimean war. The transaction was not approved by the people living there although it can be argued they where better treated (or less badly treated) by the Americans than by the Russians before them. Documented cases of slave trade of Alaskans by Americans exists though for as late as 1903.
31:12 "It was a very, very hard time in Southeast Asia", quite possibly the biggest understatement in regards to the monstrous behavior of Japanese soldiers and goverment in that part of the World.
Imagine if you had two kids, and you treated them with different standards. Harshly punishing one for slightest mistake while allowing the other one to do all they wished. Many adjectives can be used to describe such a parent, but 'fair' or 'just' would not be among them. This is the moral base line of all ethical logic and moral reasoning, this simple sense of universalism. What is true for me, must be so for you, and vice versa, for if a moral is true only for some, then it is no longer a moral but a commandment, to act as told, not as done. Thus from this universal perspective, one achieves a slight impartiality of this world and observe it for all the absurdist concept it encapsulate as 'moral'. Imagine if a country may justify its military actions by citing 'self-defense' in the same sense America did to seek Ben Ladin in a few unrelated countries, in a equal sense, would Iran not be entitled to seek 'self-defense' for the assassination of their generals by invading Canada or Mexico? If by scripture, the Jews may lay claim to inhabited land by citing history and beliefs, then would the Native Americans rightfully wage war to claim their land? If by the justification of exporting democracy one may conduct itself with impunity as it facilitates coup around the world, then surely another country could export communism or socialism by equal underhanded measures? For too long the American people are blind to these simple truth and the fact is, if another nation rose to become the next empire or hegemony and subject America to the same treatment, then their cries of suffering under injustice would be deafened only by the irony of their egotistic moral superiority by the virtue of nothing but their accidental place of birth.
I have tried to explain what you stated albeit with less eloquence to some friends, and at the risk of sounding condescending I have often wondered if I was alone in understanding universalism. This is the most refreshing comment I have ever read online. I hope you don’t mind if I copy it, save it, and share it.
Actually, I would hope that if a country gained hegemony over what's now the US, that they'd treat my descendants as well as the US has treated those in its territories, and those it has beat in war.
The allies knew that the concept of bushido made the Japanese army loyal to the point of suicide, which is what prompted the definitive action of dropping the bomb. When cultural mores supercede logic/reason/morals, extreme force is required.
Japan was completely cut off by the end of the war. It was bombed flat before the nukes.... I think that the nukes were as much scientific experiment as weapon of war.
Bombing of Darwin, Australia. The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, Australian and American ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II.
Later in the war, Darwin DID become a submarine base. But, by that time, Japan had decisively lost the war. BTW, during Obama's pivot to Asia, Darwin came back on the map. That's where a USMC brigade was proposed to be sited. Things may have totally changed in the last six-years.
24:34 "Washington: Extremely hesitant to build up colonial defenses" - The US were explicitly forbidden from creating any additional military installations or fortifications in the Pacific by Article XIX of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty. To say the US was hesitant to defend the Philippines and insinuate that this was because it was viewed as simply unimportant is either ill informed or disingenuous.
If they wanted to, the could have easily bypassed it. The us has bypassed international and national law several times to further their interests, it wouldn't stop them.
@@kevinsandow5354 Imperial Japan closely monitored Subic Bay and all other US military activity in the Pacific for treaty violations and hastily reported any potential violations, like the VT Squadron Five incident in 1928. Furthermore, the WNT's main purpose was to limit a naval arms race, which it did by limiting ship construction and implementing tonnage limits. These limits gave the USA a 5:3 advantage vs Imperial Japan and parity with the UK, who had been the preeminent naval power for 200 years, and were viewed as a potential adversary at the time (as evidenced by War Plan Red). How would it be in the US's best interest to abandon guaranteed advantage and parity in naval assets with its two likely adversaries to build static installations in a single territory?
first there signing of this treaty proves this not to meachen there was nothing stopping them beforehand, IE we signed something saying we can't help protect you, so its not are fault we can't. This acts like this treaty simply existed way before this. also to build up defenses does not necessarily mean new bases, but the fortification of ones already there or simply more ground troops to resist invasion, the only improvement they weren't allowed was increasing their ability to service ships and direct coast defense "no measures shall be taken to increase the existing naval facilities for the repair and maintenance of naval forces, and that no increase shall be made in the coast defences of the territories and possessions above specified"
As a Filipino hearing this, I genuinely wouldn't mind being a part of the US Empire. I'm sure I'd be treated differently from white Americans, but I'm sure my country would be better governed and more prosperous that it currently is now. Probably about as rich as Guam per capita.
You have options. Declare war on America and hope they invade and annex. Declare war on China and hope America comes to help. Emigrate to America. Reform your country and become so prosperous that Americans emigrate in your country. Curse your ancestors for declaring independence.
I am a White American with loved ones in the Phillipines who are indigenous. I am shocked at the fact that the government there is incredibly oppressive and corrupt. There are zero public services and the population is languishing in the time of Covid. On a bright note, a movement has begun, Caritas. They are setting up Kindness Stations, with such a beautiful philosophy of take what you need/give what you can. So progressive and such a positive development. I pray it catches on and spreads throughout the globe. Filipino people are amazing, beautiful spirits....
@@andrew3203 "Declare war on America and hope they invade or annex." I don't think this is a good idea. Before any positive development happens, millions of people would have already died by drone strikes.
@@zenityquest8402 That's nonsense. South Korea was colonized by Japan and yet they are successful. It takes no more than 50 years to go from poor to rich as long as you actually intend for it to happen.
I visited the Philippines in the 80s several times in the US Navy. The phillapino people were always great. At the time we maintained a large naval base and air base. After a major volcano damaged the areas we deserted the Philippines again. I never realized that in the 1930 these people were US citizens. The 1.6 million lives lost on the island was appalling. The United States is always hardest on its own people. Great presentation
A few months before the volcano. The government of the Philippines had ask us to withdraw all military and turn over the naval and air bases to them. When the volcano happened we were in the middle of doing that. It just speeded up the process We did not desert them. We wanted to stay
@@brucemace5404 Correct, this is how information gets muddled and misrepresented. The Philippines wanted the U.S out and the withdrawal was in progress as equipment was being moved to Guam and Okinawa. The Philippines didn't want to renew the leases. Mount Pinatubo just speed up the process. So now the Philippines has to fend of the Chinese with their PT boats whereas if they allowed the U.S Navy to stay, China would think twice about entering their waters to steal the fish. There has been talks for the past several years of allowing the U.S. military back in, but who knows what goes on behind closed doors.
"The United States is always hardest on its own people." It is called Human Resources for a reason. People are just tools in the hands of those people who own the world.
Kinda hard to condemn Germany and Japan's expansionist policies when you're sitting on top of an empire. I wouldn't draw attention to my colonies either.
Check out the document in gov that says, paraphrased, Give the Americans the bare minimum education so not even the brightest among them will never figure it out. Not sure what year that was written.
2:20 No.... it might have been the *first,* but certainly not the only (thinking about the Aleutian Campaign, which any WW2 buff knows about). 28:35 Because the Pacific is a *really big ocean,* and the Philippines are on the far other side. We didn't have anything to defend them with.
I suppose this presentation is for the ignorant masses? Alaska was sold to the US by Russia, and Russia wanted to. He also shies away from talking about Cuba after the war despite it also being a Spanish territory. No mention of all the US infrastructure, education, etc projects and how well the Philippines and others were treated compared to how the British, French, etc treated their territories. His stupidly simplistic explanation for why the Europe First strategy was adopted. Making it sound like the US completely abandoned the Pacific until the end of the war. The reason for cutting the Japanese off from escape because they were determined to fight to the death. The fact that MacArthur was one of the biggest advocates on behalf of Asians, etc. On, and on, and on. This guy sounds great, but he's garbage. Blinded by some agenda or whatever? I don't know.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 Moscow was on the edge of insolvency. Alaska simply bailed them out. BTW, Alaska's pelts from ottars was what attracted the Tzar to Alaska in the first place. The Russians DIDN'T venture onto the mainland of Alaska. There still is a Russian settlement -- with Cryllic street signs -- in Alaska. Every now and again it gets in the news. IIRC, 60 Minutes once did a piece on that village. Every soul there -- by now -- is inter-related by blood. During the Cold War, TASS even sent crews over. For the Russians/Soviets that village was a gold mine of propaganda. Virtually the minute anyone explored Alaska's rivers// especially where they met Canada -- placer gold was found all over the joint -- and we're NOT talking dust. Some fields had popcorn sized nuggets visible from the surface! Such mining is, of course, still going on. BTW, due to an ultra-ancient impact crater, [ ie before Earth had an atmosphere! ] Siberia and Alaska have shocking levels of Platinum in their placer fields -- especially Siberia. In Alaska, most of this Platinum is actually thrown away. For it's still such a minority within the placer gold dust that miners don't recognize it for being what it is. MOST gold placer mines DON'T have significant Platinum recoveries. So the Americans think that they are doing the smart thing. Heh. At $ 2,000 a troy ounce.... send everything off to the refiner !
I can't believe this guy is a serious historian. US lost most of its navy at Pearl Harbor. US didn't prioritize liberating Philippines i.e. US cared more about Britain and France than its own territory; the Philippines. US Navy was in no position to do anything after Pearl Harbor. Then there was the defeat of the Java Sea. As soon as US Navy started winning they island hopped to liberate Philippines.
@@philliplord6332 Are you not aware of WW2 history? The Axis countries declared war on the US. Britain and France were already fighting Germany. Germany was the biggest threat by far to the US. Japan had to project forces an enormous distance across the Pacific. They could not project such a force and hold their more important territories in Asia and the South Pacific. It took the combined might of Russia, Great Britain, Australia, Canada and the US to beat Germany.
@@olliefoxx7165 The US was selling both weapons and materials to both sides. The allied forces owed us more loans so we helped them. So if they were such a threat to the US why did we provide them with so much resources?
Yup, he is being dishonest. He should have compared number of French killed in D-Day and during the Liberation of France as compared to the dead in Philippines for context. Also compared the threat to Allies that ight knock them out of the fight contrasted to effort the Philippines could generate and how that might effect thinking. Daniel has lost my respect.
Um the US lost a lot of ship, mainly some key Battleships, but the Japanese failed to destroy even 1/2 of the fleet. They didn't even get a single carrier because they weren't docked at Pearl Harbor
1898 was before electricity and whaling was big business in the south Pacific for sperm whales. Also the time was the height of China invasions by Europeans and Americans for their gold and silver, porcelains and silk, girls and export slave labor. That was why it seemed Philippines would make a profitable colony even it possess no gold, oil, metals, coal or rubber. In the 30s Japan, France and Britain were major conquerors of China so the US did not get much of the pie. Also electricity has crashed the whaling business. So the Philippine has become an unprofitable colony so the US just wanted to abandon it. Hawaii, on the other hand, was much more attractive. It was reachable by overnight Pan Am Clipper plane from San Francisco and Los Angeles. It had a small local population which could be tamed fairly easily. Cheap labor, food, and materials could be conveniently shipped from Asian countries to develop the lands, build road, towns, naval base, airports and golf courses. Fresh new Japanese slave labor were employed in the 1890s because they are easy to manage compared to veteran Chinese slave labor who have gotten smart to be cheated upon. Now some 30% Hawaiians are Japanese. Originally the main purpose of keeping a fleet in Hawaii was to keep the military threat on Japan and China who were forced at gun point to sign unfair trading treatise with the US. For a fleet strong enough to attack Japan and China Pearl Harbor needed to have a big fleet with thousands of sailors and at that time means an all white navy. Therefore the white population made Hawaii a state instead of colony, territory or US possession. That was all about color and race, white supremacy and racism which is still largely the way today. I am a US citizen born and lived in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Texas, Beijing, Japan, and Germany. Asians know a lot about the history of US aggression and many have been to the islands because of convenient tourism. Asian countries like Singapore, Japan, Korea, and China know a lot about US military bases, especially Japan. They have little to do with democracy vs communism, that just does not exist in reality. There is no threat of Chinese communism in terms of ideology. That existed only 100 years ago from Karl Marx to Lenin. China could change the name of its Party and delete the word Communist. Its ideology is called Socialist Road with Chinese Characteristics existed since 1981 Economic Reform by Deng Xiao Ping. The fact that the ruling Party is still called Communist Party is both due to family linkage of the some the top officials as well as the issue of saving face, both are not technically necessary. Every one these days just want money because it guarantees power, not ideologies, not religion. Home prices in Beijing and Shanghai are equivalent to New York and Los Angeles. There are a million Chinese overseas students worldwide, occupying the largest portion of foreign students in every, I mean every, US top universities. Chinese tourist spending literally move stock markets. Do Americans really think those people are communists as defined in the dictionary? Well, the biggest reason for that is due to US TV propaganda such as Fax news telling you they are communist and that's why the US needed to raise trillion dollar defense budgets all the time. By keeping the fog thick the rich have gotten much richer in the past 30 years since Reagan. US bases are tools for making money for a bunch of big US corporations and lives of US soldiers are expandable. If you die you still get your salary plus some medals and certificates for your wall. Alright, talk again next time.
I like that you make all these claims about American intentions and yet fail to provide any evidence. Sprinkling in real historical events with your own post hoc just-so story to explain them may fool the gawking rabble of invalids, but I for one am not convinced. Have a nice day.
@@craftlet9047 Very simple. In its 245 year of history the US has not gone to war for 16. How many millions of civilians they killed? How many million of refugees died on the roads? How many contries in the UN support the US againist China in any issues? The peoples of the world do not like the US and now they have a new leader, China. Bye.
@@michael511128 Seems like you are using an overly broad concept of "WAR" there friend. Also seem to be counting a single day with shooting as a "YEAR". Use honest math, then we can talk.
@@OtherDAS Check Wikipedia. Modest figure US bombed 24 countries since 1945, Latin America, Middle East and Africa; killed a few million civilians and more than ten million refugee deaths. Millions of mines left in Vietnam and Cambodia killed 40,000 plus people after the war, estimated to take 300 years to dig them all out. US trillion dollar military budgets force the rest of the world to play this game contributing to climate change that will offset the effect of the 2 billion cars on earth turning into electric vehicles. You should google to lean more math.
Wrong. Quite a few territories like American Samoa have wanted the benefits accruing to recognised US territories, eg Samoa. In fact, American Samoans effectively vote for the US than any others, by enlisting in the military more often than Any otherUS state or territory.
No. Immerwahr plays on the young’s historical ignorance to gain their sympathy, not to fairly inform them. (SEE MY LENGTHY rebuke and reply elsewhere on this thread, posted today.)
Immerwahr replaces the word "purchase" (U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia) with the word "annexation". That of course makes the transaction sound far more sinister and warlike.
Which Americans do all the time when is someone else action, yet use unlimited euphemisms when is themselves, which further inflates the idea of US as the real good guys and everyone else as evil.
Of course most of Alaska was controlled by its actual native Alaskan inhabitants in 1867. Just like with the Louisiana Purchase, what the US actually bought was the right to be recognized by European governments as the one with the right to eliminate, assimilate, or dominate the indigenous people.
Holy crap I've been through public school. Studied ww2 and been to the war museum in Louisiana and never once have I read that the Philippines was US colony. I thought we were in Philippines as allies not as defense of US citizens. Pretty dark history that isn't taught.
I suppose this presentation is for the ignorant masses? Alaska was sold to the US by Russia, and Russia wanted to. He also shies away from talking about Cuba after the war despite it also being a Spanish territory. No mention of all the US infrastructure, education, etc projects and how well the Philippines and others were treated compared to how the British, French, etc treated their territories. His stupidly simplistic explanation for why the Europe First strategy was adopted. Making it sound like the US completely abandoned the Pacific until the end of the war. The reason for cutting the Japanese off from escape because they were determined to fight to the death. The fact that MacArthur was one of the biggest advocates on behalf of Asians, etc. On, and on, and on. This guy sounds great, but he's garbage. Blinded by some agenda or whatever? I don't know.
@@OtherDAS That's what the referendum was for. Puerto Ricans agreed to be part of the United States. Its up to Congress to act, to add them into the union. Republicans DO NOT want to add PR because they tend to vote Democrat.
@@incisivecommenter5974 Last referendum I saw has THREE options. Status Quo, Statehood, Independence. SQ won, Statehood did not though it came close. Independence just under 1%. This was before Hurricane and the want more Fed dollars.
So if I am hearing this right, most Americans were not even aware of the colonies we held, in large part. So it seems odd that we are today meant to feel guilty for something the vast population was not even aware of.
Because our ignorance led to the suffering of people. We today should not feel guilty but be aware of the mistakes so that we dont repeat them. We still have lots of colonies. And we should rethink this as it's ironic for the country of freedom, formerly a colony, to own colonies and deny our colonies self determination.
I stopped watching at 10:52. Up to this point, the speaker seems to argue that the US was hiding the fact that the Philippines were a colony. But this was not true, and by far. Transition to independence in 1946 was already scheduled, and the Philippines were largely autonomous as the Commonwealth of the Philippines since 1935. This is why Roosevelt focused on the US - because the Philippines were no longer part of the US (in any sense) since 1935.
It’s an interesting talk, but not one without a slanted view on the matter, one that is more aligned with todays historical reinterpretation of the people in the margins being victims of the people in the center.
Great video! Very informative, but the American empire marches on! As a Puerto Rican I know too well the nature of the empire's cruelty just ask my fellow islands you know the 3000 dead Boricua on the island.
@@BXGUY73 Philippines' independence rested due to the existing Treaty of Manila 1946, but there are two other broader treaties such as Treaty of Paris 1898 and Treaty of Washington 1900. All the 3 treaties are still in force. Having said that, it can not be denied that the Philippines was bought by United States from Spain in 1898.
@@Orson2u we've had the massacre of Ponce where the US government killed 200+ peaceful protestors then they sterilized like a third of our women then recently 3000 or so died thanks to Hurricane Maria. We always keep loving the empire or at best trying to ignore the obvious. Sorta like how a wife of an abuser will defend him by saying, "I deserved it or it was an accident... He's still good!" That's sorta the mentality around here. A few purges and attacks on our civil liberties over a course of 100+ years it becomes the new normal. You don't often pause and think about how fucked up it all is... Until you talk to the elders or open up a history book.
@@lonedesertfox and eventually you will shrink back just like every other empire leaving you living with memories of grandeur and being attacked by the woke
@@howardchambers9679 aye! For it is the duty of the old to look back and be glad at what they accomplished and of the young to go out and accomplish more!
@@lonedesertfox yea, just like Iraq, the old people are so glad at what they've done they pretend they didn't want to do it in the first place. But don't worry the young will get sent back again soon enough to 'accomplish' more
@@matthewc8241 go watch jocko willink having a talk with Jordan Peterson and you can get an idea of what kind of stuff happened there. But anyhow, what my idealism is of an expansion into surrounding territories like Mexico, there is so much potential there and it is ridden with cartel control and absolutely corrupt politicians. Also adding the technological prowess of the US to places that are impoverished would be an immense good if only we could get some kind of law to exist in those places.
While it is tragic, a war on the scale of WWII forced decisions of bad and worse. Defending England over the Philippines was strategic. England was necessary to win the war in total. The industrial capacity and current war machine that England already had compared to the combat forces and capabilities of the native Philippinos make is such that when fighting a war on 2 fronts, you have to focus one over the other. Had the U.S. spend time and resources on the islands, and England fell, it is likely or probable that the U.S. and Allies could have lost the war in its entirety.
the army refers to the logo map as CONUS for continental US and everything else that is America as OCONUS (outside the continental US, yes the military is an imaginative group)
40:06 This is no judgement on the woman speaking, but her voice is the voice i hear in my head when i think patronizing. Again, no judgement on the woman speaking, as i do not know her. And a fantastic lecture. Edit: Nevermind, everyone sounds annoying now. I think its just his eloquence that makes others sound weird.
It used to be called imperialism, but people fear using the term, lest they should be identified as 'communists' , 'lefties' and all the oethr negative connotation sthat THE ULTIMATE CAPITALIST IMPERIALIST STATE has worked so hard to link to all concepts of People's self-determination and empowerment
@@GeaVox America has wiped out the Imperialist economic model. Red China and Russia are the only significant empires left. So, anti-imperialism is still an on-going project. Red China wants to re-establish imperialism -- in the classic manner. See North Korea, Burma... perhaps more to come. BTW, the USA is hugely Socialist at this time -- and has been a hugely socialist economy since FDR -- eighty-years ago. Pull your head out of your dogma. Guam and Puerto Rico are NOT colonies. They are territories -- with absolutely no impulse to make them more like the mainland. These Dependencies have it so good that they just refuse to leave America -- even if we say: "Shoo... shoo...." Every dang vote by the PR ends up with a vote for the Status Quo. Guam will NEVER leave. It won't even hold a vote on the matter... it's so far out of the question. BTW, Guamanians have THREE-TIMES the economic well being of their cousins a few miles across the Pacific. They know that if they're ever attacked by an alien entity -- the World will come to an end. They are untouchable. In the meantime, they have a rocking tourist business -- ironically -- hugely with the Japanese. (Think weddings.) In Japan, chicks want a tropical honeymoon. Entire resorts -- the finest in the world -- exist in Hawaii for this trade.
So...color matters, race matters, white privilege is what this is call...being a secondary citizen means quality and equality is not of a standard priority. Being a minority and being treated as one can have a devastating effect on individuals. I am considered to be a middle class minority and one might say, why am I complaining?...it is because I see and hear a lot of injustice situations in my area as well as other parts of this country such as Detroit. MI, New Orleans, major parts Mississippi and Georgia and Alabama, these areas are heavily populated or defined by ppl of color, look at other areas around the boarders of the United States that are considered to be part of the continent such as the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico these areas have more minorities and you can tell by the way their treated in devastating situations historically and up to current events...where they stand in citizenship is very painful.
Fascinating talk! I loved living in Guam for 4 years, and as for their relationship and views on their American-ness I'd say... It's complicated. There's Guam culture (in which I'd include "everyone who calls the island home") and then Chamorro culture (closer to pure native). Chamorro culture is celebrated, but in a kind of Americanized way (weekly food-and- exhibition festival with vendors and food carts; Big John (RIP brother) and his carabao rides at Fort Soledad, &c.). Guam culture as a whole is a lot like other small islands, incl. Hawaii (e.g. a half-hour drive is a looooooong way). They have politicians and elections like anywhere stateside, and have certainly been influenced by the US politically vis-a-vis systems of govt. There are roads you should definitely not drive down unless you want to get a beating, but on the other hand I could show up to a Chamorro neighbor's bbq with a case of Bud and be perfectly welcome. The view of the Japanese is interesting, since Guam is a major tourist destination for them and they spend a lot of money. There's also some really great Japanese businesses there, restaurants and shops and the like. There's a recognition of what the Japanese did in WW2, but it seems like water under the bridge for the most part. They left some cool forts and dive spots All told it's a place full of people being people. Some love America and see themselves as part of it; some hate it. Most don't care or think too much about it. Of course this was 10 years ago so take it with a grain of salt.
@@stavroskarageorgis4804 well it's been a year, but I think my point was that Guam is a good case study for what American "empire" looks like (or could look like, or maybe SHOULD look like): relatively benign and aloof, and only interested in control to the point that the military can operate freely there.
Yeah, might want to check a dictionary..... annex verb - 1 : to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition //Many privileges were annexed exclusively to royalty. 2 archaic : to join together materially : unite 3 : to add to something earlier, larger, or more important //annexed a bibliography to the thesis 4 : to incorporate (a country or other territory) within the domain of a state
@@ramel684 Google's definition "add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation." appropriation is "the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission." We had Russia's permission.
@@rikuown Google's definition is just one of many. Merriam-Webster, Dictionary dot com, Collins, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, just for a few examples, do not include force or coercion as a required part of their definitions
@@ramel684 Okay well it's a pretty weak argument when you have to resort to picking particular definitions. Why use the word annex? Considering the conflicting definitions, it seems like a bad word to use in this context. Of course, I know it's because we're trying to imply that usa bad and we need to subtly imply that with using words with unclear definitions. Could just say the purchase of Alaska, but again that doesn't have the negative connotation that this guy is trying to lump in with it.
So far this is a great lecture. I certainly was not aware that the Japanese attacked all those other places within hours of each other. Of course I knew the Philippine's were a large part of the effort against the Japanese, but I didn't know that they were attacked the same day (dateline stuff notwithstanding). I think the reason Hawaii got so much more recognition is because the extreme damage to our Navy. I mean 20 ships sunk, with the now iconic USS Arizona blocking escape routes and over 300 airplanes destroyed and over 2400 American lives lost. Far less were lost in the Philippine's if my research is correct.
Manila is the most destroyed city next to Warsaw Poland during world war 2. The longest and most destructive naval battle U.S had participated in history. And U.S surrender to Japan in the Philippines that leads to *Bataan death march* that caused 70,000 both U.S military and Filipino March to Hell.
America didn't become an empire when it colonized the Philippines, it was an empire right from the beginning. The fact that the US conquered and incorporated Native American nations made it an empire from the start. That is the difference between a nation and an empire, an empire rules over multiple nations.
I suppose this presentation is for the ignorant masses? Alaska was sold to the US by Russia, and Russia wanted to. He also shies away from talking about Cuba after the war despite it also being a Spanish territory. No mention of all the US infrastructure, education, etc projects and how well the Philippines and others were treated compared to how the British, French, etc treated their territories. His stupidly simplistic explanation for why the Europe First strategy was adopted. Making it sound like the US completely abandoned the Pacific until the end of the war. The reason for cutting the Japanese off from escape because they were determined to fight to the death. The fact that MacArthur was one of the biggest advocates on behalf of Asians, etc. The fact that US territories like Guam have been asked repeatedly, yet don't want to become States, and don't want to be independent because they like where they are. On, and on, and on. This guy sounds great, but he's garbage. Blinded by some agenda or whatever? I don't know...
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 this presentation was to spread information and correct misinformation You think it’s a stupidly simplistic explanation for why we all but abandoned our territories in that area More importantly: stop talking about an island like Guam as if you spoke for them: you need to snap out of it
38:30 The lecture suddenly skips, but he said:
An account from the wreckage of Manila from a boy named Oscar: he met a G.I. who gave him chocolate and he replied with 'thank you very much.' The G.I. was confused and asked how he spoke English.
Tyvm
thank you!
Lol a G.I.? Probably some POG
Thanks. The ubiquitous Catholic Church in the Philippines changed over from the Spanish Church to the American branch, which accounts for English preceding American forces. In the Visayas and especially Cebu, the language of Cebuano, also known as Visayan, has a lot of Spanish loan words, and in the Manila area, lots more English speakers with their telltale eggagerated American "r"s that you hear from call centers and filipina nurses in USA. A Visayan speaker such as my wife has more of a Spanish speaker's r's,
Thanks!
I am part- Hawaiian, Samoan and Puerto Rician, the history of how my people became a part of the United States needs to be taught, thank you for sharing this history. Mahalo nui loa
Long live United States and the Philippines.
More like DAMN "HAOLE!"
@@chessonso2610 The USA is an illegally occupied collection of first nations,
I totally agree, I have been researching just about everything and I am amazed at how much I don't have a clue about, your issue one of them, not even a whisper, I am now 63 F I cannot believe how much I never knew even happened. oh thanks for the internet.
@@chessonso2610 omfg I see you everywhere with the same comments. What a troll and cringe you are.
I was born soon after World War II and raised in the Philippines but have lived in the United States for most of my adult life. My father served in the USAFFE under General McArthur. My children and grandchildren are Americans. In many ways, I am Filipino-American. Thank you for filling in the gaps in my understanding of the Philippines 🇵🇭 and the United States 🇺🇸 and the historical extent of American influence worldwide.
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Fell asleep watching Wathammer 40,000 comic shorts and woke up to this. I'm not disappointed.
I ended up here from warhammer videos as well
A perfect topic-cycle - congratz, dear algorithm xD
@@sillylung Same here :D The algorithm protects.
I strangely autoplayed from an initial viewing of a guppy breeding vid. This is a super gripping way of teaching me some history, of which I was previously ignorant!
I came from "libertarian candidate strips onstage at party convention"
And thus the Emperor proclaimed: "To each... his own?"
Just how he handled the opening alone, I knew I was going to like this guy.
This guy is classy.
Everything he said in the first 5 minutes is inaccurate by omission.
@@moodist1er Thank goodness someone sees through this guy. He's very skilled at presenting a fact and then foisting his narrative onto the situation with no proof. I was especially upset how he concluded that the US strategic plan was to deal with Europe first and worry about the Pacific situation later because of the ethnicity of the respective populations. I would postulate that Germany (and Italy) were considered a bigger threat for multiple reasons: (1) Greater industrial capacity than Japan (2) greater military might than Japan (3) closer proximity to the US mainland (4) and others. While Japanese submarines did occasionally prowl the west coast, the German U-boats were wreaking havoc all along the east coast. Yamamoto said when the US carriers were not destroyed at Pear Harbor, the war was already lost. He knew that the Japanese military and industrial capacity was stretched to the limit and the only hope was to hurt the US bad enough to attempt for a stalemate. All this said, the US immediately launched offensives in the Pacific, it just took a few years to get all the way to the Philippines. Oh yeah, and where was the first significant US offensive in the European theatre?......North Africa, not what most people would consider a land of Anglo-Saxon peoples.
@@jonwalter6317 the pacific is rich with gold and copper. We're not occupying the Philippines because we believe in democracy, lol.
@@jonwalter6317 Apologists for the powerful are an embarrassment to the human race
@@jonwalter6317 another reason to have prioritized Europe, was to bolster Britain, which was facing the eventual risk of starvation if the German U-Boat threat wasn't blunted. And before long, Britain was actually beginning to run low on men (around the end of the Battle of Normandy).... Britain lost a vastly higher % of their military-aged men than most Americans realize, from years of fighting in the Far East, Southeast Asia, Near East, North Africa, Battle of Britain, bombing campaign vs. Germany etc.
14:24 "We believe this statement is not true." It is "an alibi instead of an explanation."
I wish people said that more often!
Adults with diplomas today aren't as intelligent as those middle school girls.
The narrative in Philippine history books is that we sort-of coalesced as a nation under the long rule of the Spanish, and the dramatic bit is us fighting for independence from Spain. US and Japanese rule aren't suppressed, people know, but that's not considered as significant. Filipinos feel kinda like the US and Japan were just passing through, an intermission between Spanish rule and real independence.
Your father was a wonderful lecturer and you remind us so much of him. Engaging, total mastery of the material and perfect use of humor.
As a high school history teacher who teaches this topic, THANK YOU for educating others about it. Americans are not well educated on US imperialism, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine American War (and tragedies within it like the Moro Massacre), the annexation and coup in Hawaii, and US involvement in Latin America over the 20th century. More Americans died in the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) than in the Spanish-American War (1898), and while neither are discussed enough at least some Americans have heard of the Spanish-American War.
Too bad most of what's taught in US history classes is myth.
@@stephencorsaro954 sadly very true. The bias is very real in most classrooms, in both how things are explained & what is chosen to be focused on as well as left out.
So, how did you escape the total academic bias in favor of American imperialism during your academic history training? Or did you not escape that bias and learn about these topics only after grad school?
@@briananderson8428 after the civil war libraries were purged of historical records. But..in the some of these libraries the material was moved into the basements. Boston Public Library was one of the places that pamphlets, broadsides and personal correspondence got stored. There have been several basement floods over the years but in the seventies I spent several hundreds of hours searching and photographing documents. I wasn't the only one. There is information out there but it takes multiple sources to try to find the "truth" about all of US history. So much of it has been cleaned and so much propaganda has been created that it's not easy. There's many authors that have published deep dive history in every time frame in our history. When I was young I volunteered thru the Catholic Church to do elder home "visiting". Listening to people tell stories of their lives from the late 19th and early 20th century got me interested to begin with. I was shocked by the disconnect between their reality and what I was being taught that in made me curious.
@@briananderson8428 try reading some history by Gerald Horne to start. It will shock you and maybe start you down the road. You don't need a formal education unless you plan to use it for making money. Curiosity is a decent motivation.Why else do we need truth? And what is the quality of life without curiosity and imagination because without those we can't be creative. Mostly it's not to consider yourself a sheep.
For good portion of my life, the situation with the Philippines has always perplexed me. And the more I have researched the Philippines, the more disgusted I have become with the way that the United States has not only treated them but forgotten about them. I've been in the process of making a video about it for quite some time, and once in a blue moon do a bit more research. I got to say, I'm thankful to have come across this video and to find somebody who has a very similar perspective as I do. He hits the nail right on the head with a number of points I have found myself thinking in the exact same way.
It's built into the logic of colonialism. There's us and there's our colonies. If we are in danger, we must protect us at the expense of the colonies. They can be rebuilt later, us can't. For a really concise and clear treatise, read Thomas Moore: Utopia. This was perceived to be the best possible state of things.
Considering the timeline...the Philippines Independence was already on the schedule before December 7th, 1941 and and been anticipated in the US with some enthusiasm for decades, IIRC leaders from the Philippines here to argue for their Independence were greeted warmly. I would argue that the US/Philippines relationship as more of a "protectorate" (with all the negative and paternalistic connotations that go along with the use of the term) than a "colony".
Unlike Hawai'i, the Philippines were on the way out of the immediate US Family with good feelings all around.
lol the US still sends troops to help stabilize the Philippines...
When i was into a deeper study into why the u.s. was involved in Philippine politics, i went deep into the rabbit hole that is the Philippine Revolution. . . And how america became it's protectorate.
As i studied deeper, more holes in the history, and terminology appeared.
For example: the Philippine Insurrection. Why is it called that when clearly, the u.s. forces were not native in this land.
@@markknife1 Seems fairly transparent that the US did not recognize a gap in ownership between the previous Spanish administration and their own. A clear title had been exchanged, so to speak. As well, it is an artifact of Colonialism...this seems fairly uncontroversial. It was a continuation of the existing anti colonial struggle which preceded the US presence. The Spaniards, who also were not native, called it an insurrection because they were an empire. The US found it convenient to use the same term for the same conflict when they tagged in. But they weren’t an empire like Spain, but actually bought into the whole white mans burden schtick and wanted to leave the place a functional democracy for our own ego gratification...also graft and corruption.
I was taught in a similar fashion to those 7th grade girls by my history dept at Columbine High School in the early 1990s. Bless good teachers. We need as many as we can get.
This is really a wonderful lecture. I'm old now and I never understood that Japan attacked all these places on Dec 7th. I guess I knew that they attacked and occupied the Philippines, but all I recall was that McArthur said "I shall return" ... I never really understood when this was all done. Thank you Daniel Immerwahr for your good work.
And because we had to spend lots of time and resources in order to massage MacArthur's giant ego, the war in the Pacific lasted longer than it should have.
@@Harry-nn4px
According to the lecture the war in the Pacific was given second priority to the war in Europe - that's why.
It's crazy to me how little the Pacific theater is covered in school and media. Japan was such a bigger issue than Germany, but it's just glossed over.
@@leviswranglers2813
How are you comparing Japan and Germany in that case?
@@leviswranglers2813 well the thing was that politically the war should have focused first on Japan on the American perspective but to aid in the allied effort overall it should be said the pull of the European powers had their influence and FDR's ideological disdain for Germany. More interestingly was how the US bungled their alliance with China undermining them cause the US commander was racist and also was aiming to overthrow the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek as well strategically leaving them out to dry and poorly coordinating with them. Causing the once well trained professional army of the Chinese Republic through casualties reduced to an exhausted and defeated force where the ccp threw out even though 90% of defending the Chinese homeland was done by the CRA.
Can ya turn on the A/C?!? Great way 2 start this.
Crude, but effective
The A/C question comes across as a dogwhistle to your Global Warming base. (Note: I belong to that base.)
this video has been recommended to me for over a year so I'm finally watching it and I want to thank the Google gods for not giving up. 10/10 lecture
Great lecture that helped me get catapulted into doing my own research. Love lectures that spark me to dig deeper and keep learning.
this is a stunningly inclusive account of imperialism that's not really anti-imperialist.
Its strange that he can describe exactly how the US holds power in many places and yet doesn't condemn it really ever
@@tighegilmore9202 if he does. He gets censored. That's how America works. He researched it.
@@tighegilmore9202 because that’s how the world has worked going back to idk ancient Egypt and beyond.
he forgot liberia 🥴
I mean we used to have the expectation that presenters give unbiased lessons.
I wish I could thank Mr. Immerwahr personally for an excellent and informative presentation. I needed this broader perspective of WWII.
This was one amazing lecture. What a storyteller!
@18:57 "So what should we call it?" If it helps, in my high school geography class I was taught to call them "The contiguous states".
Exemplary use of english
Always referred to it as the lower 48, meaning the 48 states below Alaska. (I’m Texan idk if that’s a southern thing)
@@mj6463 Thats an Alaskan thing :) We say the L48 as in everyone bellow Alaska, but we leave Hawaii separate because we are bros with them, and they are unique like us. So its all of yall down there in the L48, then us and Hawaii.
And yes, the correct term is contiguous states, not to be confused with the continental states which include Alaska and not Hawaii.
@@RealHankShill p
30, 000 Filipinos died resisting the American take over after the Spanish-American war.
Yes, & mostly in Mindinao, right where they continue to fight. And over 200,000 died in Manila alone in 1945 by the hand of the Japanese. Do you think Japan would have given independence as the US did in 1946?
This is false. It's more than a million and a half
@@edhuber3557 Considering how the US wasn't taking care of their own territory, it wouldn't have been unthinkable that if the Philippines got independence from the US that more favorable terms thsn absolute death and abuse could be agreed upon. Just look at what happened to Taiwan. Was in much better shape than thr Philippines was at the time despite becoming Japanese territory
@@carlosandleon Japan seemed to do well after we took over their country
@@carlosandleon probably because the Philippines put up an extremely strong defense and Japan was punishing them as well as using their resources to fuel their war effort. I mean cmon, are you even trying
the Reason why Hawaii was different -- culturally -- was due to RADIO. There was an immensely popular show called "Hawaii Calls" that played on the biggest radio broadcasters in the United States. It ran and ran. The voices on that show spoke ENGLISH with a California accent. Quite simply, everyone knew of Oahu and its harbor, Honolulu. The tunes played on the show were VERY Hawaiian. This was not a classics broadcast. The number of Americans who had visited the Islands was drastically larger than that visiting the Philippines.
And it was the Pacific Fleet that had been attacked. The USAAF in the Philippines had virtually no assets (planes) until FDR decided to beef it up -- in 1941. Indeed, B-17s were being brought in to the Philippines pretty much under the radar. A loopy route was chosen so that Tokyo was supposed to be in the blind. As IF! (They had spies all over the Pacific.)
In contrast, the typical American had no cultural connection to the Philippines -- Guam -- Wake -- most would be hard pressed to locate Singapore. Using such names would result in a word-salad for most listeners.
BTW, The Philippines were already on a trajectory to become INDEPENDENT. Just another reason why American's did not consider it to be a colony. Americans thought that The Philippines belonged to the Filipinos -- not themselves. Similar attitudes exist even now WRT Puerto Rico and Guam.
In classical imperial economics, the colonies support the center. With America, the center indulges its territories. They are DEPENDENCIES. All attempts to get Puerto Rico to declare independence have gone no-where. As for Guam, Guamanians are more American than Americans. They LOVE the flag. Japanese occupation will do that.
Great input.
Daniel, your explanation was much more educational than the speaker's "Hawaiians were white".
@@Sokofeather yeah that stuck out like a sore thumb
Its, from a purely aesthetical point of view, quite an ugly flag really. Would be easier to love if it were prettier.
@TryllaTröllMaistre Fictitious Fables of Europa guess that´s what happens when they have higher rates of poverty than any us state and only like 3 universities
"Was it over, when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
"The Germans?"
"Forget it. He's rolling."
Whoa 6 hours ago, RUclips algorithm doing work
"D-Day??? Isnt that when France invaded Mexico or something?"
"This situation requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!"
"We're just the guys to do it!"
As a Samoan, his pronunciation of Hawaii and Sāmoa is perfect.
Good to know.
I was today years old when I learned that the Philippines were ever an American territory.
People call the the Korean War the forgotten war, no the forgotten war is the Spanish-American War.
America also declared independance in 1776
Are you citizen of USA?
Wait till you learn how the Filipinos were treated by the US soldiers. The precurser to Vietnam.
They actually purchase the Philippines and other Spanish colonies for $20 million. And then they fool the Filipinos with a mock battle between the Spanish troops when most of the American forces are going in Intramuros, Manila and finalizing the deal with the Spanish government.
I read the book and saw this video. I thought there was a correlation lol
Amazing read. Kinda shakes you to your core n makes you think “what else is there that I can learn?”
Baader Meinhof Phenomenon?
this subject shook you to your core, wow. You are easily shook.
@@wazzupdj98d61 eh somewhat. I got similar vibes from reading a people’s history of the us, and killing hope.
Good for you reading his book. It's like, what else was I lied to about.
Daniel Immerwahr soon book launching or signing in Manila would be something I'm interested and to look forward.
I took Professor Immerwahr’s History class on the Carbon Age back in my freshman year. He is always enlightening to listen to. Great stuff, professor!
Excellent presentation, excellent presenter! I'm very impressed with the presentation, and yeah, this is the first time I've really heard someone talk about the American Empire as just that, an empire. Good for him to make it clear.
I am Puerto Rican and I know in 1897 Spain granted us autonomy just like the same relationship that the UK and Canada have today, but the United States took Puerto Rico at gun point from Spain illegally, and the United States took away the our currency, the Puerto Rican peso, and 1901 Puerto Rico had a hurricane and the American banks with support of u.s. made sure you took away our land, my mother did what she could to get my grandfather's land back out to no avail!
That 7th grade class....respect.
I wonder what that atlas showed for Alaska.
@@gregorykrajeski6255 Bear country. We let them join, and joined them in there fight against their salmon infestation.
@@xzzxxxxzzx what are you mad about?
Why didn't the camera guy show all the pictures he had. I wanted to see them
The camera guys job is to capture the person speaking. If they wanted to show the pictures in this presentation they would have had to have someone edit it in post and put the pictures in. And that would require paying an editor. Or it would require a completely different set up from what they had to do a live feed that can have overlays show up.
It would have been cool to see the pictures but I understand entirely why the camera guy didn't pan up. It would look stupid.
Really great to hear him talk as objectively as possible about these things (as any historian should). Great lecture!
He was stretching it here and there. That's all I'll say.
Fantastic : Revisiting documented events, in order to verify and/or question the accepted and popular historical framework.
Thank you !
son is history major-junior- and alaskan native so i will share this
This is an AWESOME presentation about the United States and it's Empires. I've purchased the book and I can't wait to read it ... That's just a smidgin' of what this book has to offer with it's 22 exciting Chapters!
In the military, there is a name for the “logo map” of the US - it is called CONUS, short for “contiguous United States”.
CONUS and OCONUS.
I thought conus meant continental united States.
Officially, it's 'Conterminous United States' - because continental would include Alaska which CONUS does not. But 'contiguous' is also used and is appropriate for the usage. OCONUS is 'Outside the Contiguous United States' - and is used to refer to Alaska (and HI, PR, AS, G, etc), despite Alaska's clear presence on the North American continent. Alaska is not contiguous to the 48 states (and DC) which CONUS refers to.
Yes, it measures the official shoreline territory of the US
Should be "Contagious", like a bad virus. Kidding. Maybe not. Why do they need to control every country in the world. Middle East.....the destabilized the entire region. Continual history of attacking countries and changing the property lines to destroy every CULTURE. Just like indigenous people, they tell them you are no longer allowed to speak your language or practice your culture. Same pattern so if you want us to believe they have the best interest of people, you have some explaining to do. Quote children....we do not believe this true. They change names of countries, take away their identity, split up neighbors and families and the list of Catholics/ Christians that have been genocided are too long to list. I think you apologists are paid to continue the disinformation campaigns that started before the British left and continues to this day. Many people who are traitors to America are willing to get pd to lie. I hope they remember that when their friend China and Other bought countries slaughter "We the people"
This was a very fair, measured and honest treatment of a terribly difficult subject. We need more dialogue like this.
NO IT is not. See my rebuke and reply, elsewhere on this thread, posted today.
I suppose this presentation is for the ignorant masses? Alaska was sold to the US by Russia, and Russia wanted to. He also shies away from talking about Cuba after the war despite it also being a Spanish territory. No mention of all the US infrastructure, education, etc projects and how well the Philippines and others were treated compared to how the British, French, etc treated their territories. His stupidly simplistic explanation for why the Europe First strategy was adopted. Making it sound like the US completely abandoned the Pacific until the end of the war. The reason for cutting the Japanese off from escape because they were determined to fight to the death. The fact that MacArthur was one of the biggest advocates on behalf of Asians, etc. The fact that US territories like Guam have been asked repeatedly, yet don't want to become States, and don't want to be independent because they like where they are. On, and on, and on. This guy sounds great, but he's garbage. Blinded by some agenda or whatever? I don't know.
This guy Daniel Immerwahr would at best get a C or D+ for his misuse of facts and his interpretation of the same. He is just like hundreds of other American Bashers. American is the worlds favorite Nation to Hate. Despite this America has 40 million people as part of its population that were born somewhere else. If not more actual numbers change daily.
I bet you also think Forbes and Fox news give a fair interpretation of leading Democrats from the President on down.
America nowadays: "Taiwan is independent clay!"
America in WWII: "Hmm Philippines is our land, but that doesn't make them real Americans."
UK in WWII: "Oi what do you mean Indians are people?"
Germany in WWII: "Slav is uninhabited clay."
They also did the same to palestine and half of the middle east today
If you like this guy there is an excellent podcast called Hardcore History with Dan Carlin that goes over historical history that is often overlooked or comes at popular historical events from different angles.
His podcasts are seriously some of the most informative and entertaining things I've ever listened to. Cannot recommend him enough
I did like this guy. As Irish immigrant stock living in the UK I just love the "untold" histories. Thank you for the heads up on Hardcore History. I will definitely be checking that.
Hardcore history is amazing!!!
Indeed, his podcast series on Mongol conquests and East front of WW2 were my first windows into these topics and have left a deeper impression on me than any other books/documentaries on those subjects I've consumed since then.
Historical history as opposed to the non historical histories?
Wow! Great research, spot on analysis, exciting presentation. You Rock!!!
I wanted a lecture about the hidden empire that exists today.
it's far more subtle and I think not as Comprehensive as people may think. And on what front?
extrapolate
My country is definitely part of the hidden Empire.
When you have way more Mcdonald's, KFCs, Pizzahuts, Hardee's, and other American chain restaurants than local cuisine, when our supermarkets are filled with American products that has became essential to every house hold here, when people watch American movies, TV shows, and children cartoons and not local ones. When some people (dare I say most of the younger generation) know much more about the American culture and politics than our own local culture and politics. When our cities are designed almost exactly like American cities (ugly cities that are designed for cars and not for people) when I see Los Angeles, it just feels like any city in my country (when our ancestors had one of the best and most beautiful architecture and city design). When people's dreams became "owning two cars and a big villa" and that's all what life is about to them, money, money, money. When American military bases are everywhere in our country. Yea, we are so clearly yet stealthily colonised by the USA.
Hint: my country has lots of oil 😉
The empire that exists today is based upon the one described here. You just have to extrapolate, as RC said.
@@yuzan3607 that was so eloquently written. Thank you for taking the time to write that. I really think you hit the nail on the head. I wish there was something I could do directly to address your issue as an American. Not everyone can live as an “American” there will never be enough resources in the world.
Fantastic historian. Need more like him.
He did an excellent interview with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The good prof even learned something in the interview!
More like a propagandists.
@The Omnissiah's Chosen even Josephus Flavius was a Jew
@The Omnissiah's Chosen I wrote “even” because his job was to glorify the Flavian family. Hence his adopted middle name: Flavius. I think the most important historian is Herodutus. Yes, his stories are heavily embellished, but not necessarily politically motivated.
Good on those Kalamazoo students. My aunt told me that during ww II she & my grandmother had purchased a world atlas that they used to track what was happening as they listened to the daily radio reports on the war.
Because 7th graders should determine everything. It sounds to me McNally was correct, and the State Dept only sided with the students to push a war that got 400k Americans killed.
@@elgenboden1245 you idiot. The students were right
I am surprised at the fact that after the end of he presentation, no questions arose from the public as to why Puerto Rico becomes a "territory" and Cuba does not, even though both become independent from Spain in a similar way. What are the reasons for this "lapsus"?
Perhaps it didn't fit the political narrative.
The corporations and the mob wanted to exploit Cuba, but some of these things would be illegal on US territories, perhaps.
The declaration of war approved by congress instructed the president to make Cuba independent; the US was joining an 3-year-old war for Cuban independence. There was no such war in Puerto Rico (although Spain had just a few months before given Puerto Rico internal self government). So it really wouldn't have fit the political or legal narrative to make Cuba a US territory, but Puerto Rico and the Phillipines were kind of "bonus" aquisitions, outside the official purpose of the declaration of war.
@@fazole Yes, the Mob wouldn't want to do anything illegal. EYEROLL goes here.
Exactly. Cuba was given independence. P.Rico keeps voting to not get independence (less than 1%) or petition for Statehood around 47%.
My guess is the reason for this laps is to push his Agenda.
Thank you for sharing this. True American history. It’s so hard to find.
I think it's important to not get hung up on the race stuff. The militarily industrial complex still exists regardless of its racial admixture
Philippines was occupied by US and Japan, but it wasn't never really part of them. If it was something it was Spanish for centuries. You can't simply force-change an entire nation into being something they're not, even if you genocide their population like Japan but especially US did.
True
What an engaging lecture. A gifted teacher who has opened my eyes to an understated part of American history.
Fun fact: Immerwahr in German means Always true.
Hey super cool vid and I am so grateful it popped up on my recommended. As an American, I’m embarrassed I didn’t know any of this. Thank you for posting.
Don't they teach you about this in school? It seems strange.
@@souljastation5463 Came to America as an immigrant, idk about the other states, but in nyc public schooling is a joke; And history as well, it’s mostly test prep with facts, ain’t deep in any sense; Yet as an overview, all classes I took in HS were on average everything I‘ve learnt 2 yrs ago back in Europe, but it was nice I made no effort, and had a lotta free time cause I didn’t need to study just review some things
@@souljastation5463 That's the same school that teaches them that the settlers only made fair trades with native americans, and that communism = totalitarism.
Nothing surprising here. It's called propaganda, and it starts early.
@@duconmicro4331 I've never heard in any school rejecting the genocide, displacement, treaty violations, or violence of American colonial or westward expansions, even in conservative states where they have legitimate lessons about local figures and their violent acts especially in the western states of Kansas or Texas. Maybe in eastern states this is more common to suppress the ethnic political conflicts that may arise but where the majority of native and foreign displacements and conquests are covered if only briefly in common high school curriculums, except maybe Hawaii since I've never seen their curriculum. And there isn't usually a ideological bend to teaching communism in a lot of American education to equating that Communism is totalitarian just that the most relevant to world history happen to be both and don't have education of it's real criticism. Like Cultural, Religious, and Class genocide both metaphorically and literally.
@@duconmicro4331 I learned more about the noble savage myth from my public school teachers than I did anywhere else. I didn’t learn about the WWII groundswell of support for the soviets in American intellectual circles so great the New York Times buried the holodomor from the American people to manipulate public support for tankie ideas. Maybe worst of all however, is in this very talk, Daniel here specifically uses humor to lighten the image of an iconic left wing figure, FDR, without bringing to light the reason the wanted to sweep the Philippines (or more likely the Filipino people) under the rug was just as likely because the president was a vehement racist on par with some of our worst and perhaps didn’t mind the idea of Asian people killing each other en masse.
This video needs way more viewers
Man, there is so much about this talk that I like. And the speaker says several times "but it was war". But his overall thrust doesn't seem to respect that. Japan was beyond brutal. Everyone likes to focus on Europe because the pacific theater was nothing but tears and the US wasn't given a choice in the matter.
At least according to the official US version of events
@@ramel684 unless you were there (and sometimes even if you were) untangling what really happened versus what people think happened is always a delicate matter.
That being said, most historians (across most countries) agree Japan was "beyond brutal".
@@ramel684 You forget that the Japanese Imperialist Empire being 'brutal' is not only substantiated by the US, but also the asian countries they ruled over during that period and accounts from the Japanese people themselves.
17:05 Alaska was purchased in 1867, not annexed in 1857. It was a negotiated deal initiated by the Russians who lost interest after depleting the sea otters and saw that their main rival, the British, could and perhaps would easily overtake Alaska from Canada and it was better to sell to America before that happened to not get the British as neighbors just across the Bering strait. This was just after loosing to the British (among others) in the Crimean war. The transaction was not approved by the people living there although it can be argued they where better treated (or less badly treated) by the Americans than by the Russians before them. Documented cases of slave trade of Alaskans by Americans exists though for as late as 1903.
38:29 missing segment?
31:12 "It was a very, very hard time in Southeast Asia", quite possibly the biggest understatement in regards to the monstrous behavior of Japanese soldiers and goverment in that part of the World.
Are you a citizen of Japan? If not, why are you so interested in critiquing Imperial Japan? What effect do you think that has and on whom?
@@stavroskarageorgis4804 Says the man who never criticized (that's the right word in this context) another country other than his own, right?
@@ivanm7938 Allies and clients of my country? Sure.
Imagine if you had two kids, and you treated them with different standards. Harshly punishing one for slightest mistake while allowing the other one to do all they wished. Many adjectives can be used to describe such a parent, but 'fair' or 'just' would not be among them. This is the moral base line of all ethical logic and moral reasoning, this simple sense of universalism. What is true for me, must be so for you, and vice versa, for if a moral is true only for some, then it is no longer a moral but a commandment, to act as told, not as done.
Thus from this universal perspective, one achieves a slight impartiality of this world and observe it for all the absurdist concept it encapsulate as 'moral'. Imagine if a country may justify its military actions by citing 'self-defense' in the same sense America did to seek Ben Ladin in a few unrelated countries, in a equal sense, would Iran not be entitled to seek 'self-defense' for the assassination of their generals by invading Canada or Mexico? If by scripture, the Jews may lay claim to inhabited land by citing history and beliefs, then would the Native Americans rightfully wage war to claim their land? If by the justification of exporting democracy one may conduct itself with impunity as it facilitates coup around the world, then surely another country could export communism or socialism by equal underhanded measures?
For too long the American people are blind to these simple truth and the fact is, if another nation rose to become the next empire or hegemony and subject America to the same treatment, then their cries of suffering under injustice would be deafened only by the irony of their egotistic moral superiority by the virtue of nothing but their accidental place of birth.
I have tried to explain what you stated albeit with less eloquence to some friends, and at the risk of sounding condescending I have often wondered if I was alone in understanding universalism. This is the most refreshing comment I have ever read online. I hope you don’t mind if I copy it, save it, and share it.
Actually, I would hope that if a country gained hegemony over what's now the US, that they'd treat my descendants as well as the US has treated those in its territories, and those it has beat in war.
The allies knew that the concept of bushido made the Japanese army loyal to the point of suicide, which is what prompted the definitive action of dropping the bomb. When cultural mores supercede logic/reason/morals, extreme force is required.
My wife, and many of my friends and clients, are Japanese. Nevertheless, you are right.
By that logic we should have attacked japan before germany.
@@dennismitchell5276 That logic doesn't suggest preemptive action at all. Although we did attack the Japanese before anyone else during WWII.
Japan was completely cut off by the end of the war. It was bombed flat before the nukes.... I think that the nukes were as much scientific experiment as weapon of war.
@@MrCrouchback Einstein rallied hard for their use, whilst pretending in the press that he was against them and a pacifist.
Bombing of Darwin, Australia.
The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, Australian and American ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasion of Timor and Java during World War II.
Later in the war, Darwin DID become a submarine base. But, by that time, Japan had decisively lost the war.
BTW, during Obama's pivot to Asia, Darwin came back on the map. That's where a USMC brigade was proposed to be sited. Things may have totally changed in the last six-years.
24:34 "Washington: Extremely hesitant to build up colonial defenses" - The US were explicitly forbidden from creating any additional military installations or fortifications in the Pacific by Article XIX of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty. To say the US was hesitant to defend the Philippines and insinuate that this was because it was viewed as simply unimportant is either ill informed or disingenuous.
Thank you for context.
If they wanted to, the could have easily bypassed it. The us has bypassed international and national law several times to further their interests, it wouldn't stop them.
@@kevinsandow5354 Imperial Japan closely monitored Subic Bay and all other US military activity in the Pacific for treaty violations and hastily reported any potential violations, like the VT Squadron Five incident in 1928. Furthermore, the WNT's main purpose was to limit a naval arms race, which it did by limiting ship construction and implementing tonnage limits. These limits gave the USA a 5:3 advantage vs Imperial Japan and parity with the UK, who had been the preeminent naval power for 200 years, and were viewed as a potential adversary at the time (as evidenced by War Plan Red). How would it be in the US's best interest to abandon guaranteed advantage and parity in naval assets with its two likely adversaries to build static installations in a single territory?
first there signing of this treaty proves this not to meachen there was nothing stopping them beforehand, IE we signed something saying we can't help protect you, so its not are fault we can't. This acts like this treaty simply existed way before this.
also to build up defenses does not necessarily mean new bases, but the fortification of ones already there or simply more ground troops to resist invasion, the only improvement they weren't allowed was increasing their ability to service ships and direct coast defense "no measures shall be taken to increase the existing naval facilities for the repair and maintenance of naval forces, and that no
increase shall be made in the coast defences of the territories and possessions above specified"
"There are times when men have to die" - no one has to die for an empire
You mean because of the empire of Japan? If not for America, Japan might still occupy the Philippines.
how to hide myself from myself.. first i must conquer myself.. and then ill have defeated myself..
As a Filipino hearing this, I genuinely wouldn't mind being a part of the US Empire. I'm sure I'd be treated differently from white Americans, but I'm sure my country would be better governed and more prosperous that it currently is now. Probably about as rich as Guam per capita.
You have options. Declare war on America and hope they invade and annex. Declare war on China and hope America comes to help. Emigrate to America. Reform your country and become so prosperous that Americans emigrate in your country. Curse your ancestors for declaring independence.
I am a White American with loved ones in the Phillipines who are indigenous. I am shocked at the fact that the government there is incredibly oppressive and corrupt. There are zero public services and the population is languishing in the time of Covid. On a bright note, a movement has begun, Caritas. They are setting up Kindness Stations, with such a beautiful philosophy of take what you need/give what you can. So progressive and such a positive development. I pray it catches on and spreads throughout the globe. Filipino people are amazing, beautiful spirits....
@@andrew3203 "Declare war on America and hope they invade or annex." I don't think this is a good idea. Before any positive development happens, millions of people would have already died by drone strikes.
You're in post colonial recovery stage. It takes hundreds of years to build back.
@@zenityquest8402 That's nonsense. South Korea was colonized by Japan and yet they are successful. It takes no more than 50 years to go from poor to rich as long as you actually intend for it to happen.
I visited the Philippines in the 80s several times in the US Navy. The phillapino people were always great. At the time we maintained a large naval base and air base. After a major volcano damaged the areas we deserted the Philippines again. I never realized that in the 1930 these people were US citizens. The 1.6 million lives lost on the island was appalling.
The United States is always hardest on its own people.
Great presentation
A few months before the volcano. The government of the Philippines had ask us to withdraw all military and turn over the naval and air bases to them. When the volcano happened we were in the middle of doing that. It just speeded up the process We did not desert them. We wanted to stay
@@brucemace5404 Correct, this is how information gets muddled and misrepresented. The Philippines wanted the U.S out and the withdrawal was in progress as equipment was being moved to Guam and Okinawa. The Philippines didn't want to renew the leases. Mount Pinatubo just speed up the process. So now the Philippines has to fend of the Chinese with their PT boats whereas if they allowed the U.S Navy to stay, China would think twice about entering their waters to steal the fish.
There has been talks for the past several years of allowing the U.S. military back in, but who knows what goes on behind closed doors.
"The United States is always hardest on its own people."
It is called Human Resources for a reason. People are just tools in the hands of those people who own the world.
@@johnwayne2103 You are either being owned by one or the other. Not sure though which one is better. It seems like choosing between Cholera and Ebola.
@@laaaliiiluuu Have no idea what you are referring to bro.
Kinda hard to condemn Germany and Japan's expansionist policies when you're sitting on top of an empire.
I wouldn't draw attention to my colonies either.
History and mathematics are the poorest taught subjects in the American K-12 public education system.
Check out the document in gov that says, paraphrased, Give the Americans the bare minimum education so not even the brightest among them will never figure it out. Not sure what year that was written.
"The governor's by the punchbowl, thank you very much." - OOA
2:20 No.... it might have been the *first,* but certainly not the only (thinking about the Aleutian Campaign, which any WW2 buff knows about).
28:35 Because the Pacific is a *really big ocean,* and the Philippines are on the far other side. We didn't have anything to defend them with.
USN was in no position to defend the Philippines after Pearl Harbor. Thumbs down this historian.
I suppose this presentation is for the ignorant masses? Alaska was sold to the US by Russia, and Russia wanted to. He also shies away from talking about Cuba after the war despite it also being a Spanish territory. No mention of all the US infrastructure, education, etc projects and how well the Philippines and others were treated compared to how the British, French, etc treated their territories. His stupidly simplistic explanation for why the Europe First strategy was adopted. Making it sound like the US completely abandoned the Pacific until the end of the war. The reason for cutting the Japanese off from escape because they were determined to fight to the death. The fact that MacArthur was one of the biggest advocates on behalf of Asians, etc. On, and on, and on. This guy sounds great, but he's garbage. Blinded by some agenda or whatever? I don't know.
@@goldreserve This lecturer is a race-baiting liar
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 Moscow was on the edge of insolvency. Alaska simply bailed them out. BTW, Alaska's pelts from ottars was what attracted the Tzar to Alaska in the first place. The Russians DIDN'T venture onto the mainland of Alaska. There still is a Russian settlement -- with Cryllic street signs -- in Alaska. Every now and again it gets in the news. IIRC, 60 Minutes once did a piece on that village. Every soul there -- by now -- is inter-related by blood. During the Cold War, TASS even sent crews over. For the Russians/Soviets that village was a gold mine of propaganda.
Virtually the minute anyone explored Alaska's rivers// especially where they met Canada -- placer gold was found all over the joint -- and we're NOT talking dust. Some fields had popcorn sized nuggets visible from the surface! Such mining is, of course, still going on.
BTW, due to an ultra-ancient impact crater, [ ie before Earth had an atmosphere! ] Siberia and Alaska have shocking levels of Platinum in their placer fields -- especially Siberia. In Alaska, most of this Platinum is actually thrown away. For it's still such a minority within the placer gold dust that miners don't recognize it for being what it is. MOST gold placer mines DON'T have significant Platinum recoveries. So the Americans think that they are doing the smart thing. Heh.
At $ 2,000 a troy ounce.... send everything off to the refiner !
@@powerbite92 ABSOLUTELY!
Why is there a blatant cut @ 35:25? What is that you can't find in US history text books?
I can't believe this guy is a serious historian. US lost most of its navy at Pearl Harbor. US didn't prioritize liberating Philippines i.e. US cared more about Britain and France than its own territory; the Philippines. US Navy was in no position to do anything after Pearl Harbor. Then there was the defeat of the Java Sea. As soon as US Navy started winning they island hopped to liberate Philippines.
Why was the US Navy and military in position to help Europe but not in a position to help the Philippines?
@@philliplord6332 Are you not aware of WW2 history? The Axis countries declared war on the US. Britain and France were already fighting Germany. Germany was the biggest threat by far to the US. Japan had to project forces an enormous distance across the Pacific. They could not project such a force and hold their more important territories in Asia and the South Pacific.
It took the combined might of Russia, Great Britain, Australia, Canada and the US to beat Germany.
@@olliefoxx7165 The US was selling both weapons and materials to both sides. The allied forces owed us more loans so we helped them. So if they were such a threat to the US why did we provide them with so much resources?
Yup, he is being dishonest. He should have compared number of French killed in D-Day and during the Liberation of France as compared to the dead in Philippines for context. Also compared the threat to Allies that ight knock them out of the fight contrasted to effort the Philippines could generate and how that might effect thinking. Daniel has lost my respect.
Um the US lost a lot of ship, mainly some key Battleships, but the Japanese failed to destroy even 1/2 of the fleet. They didn't even get a single carrier because they weren't docked at Pearl Harbor
1898 was before electricity and whaling was big business in the south Pacific for sperm whales. Also the time was the height of China invasions by Europeans and Americans for their gold and silver, porcelains and silk, girls and export slave labor. That was why it seemed Philippines would make a profitable colony even it possess no gold, oil, metals, coal or rubber. In the 30s Japan, France and Britain were major conquerors of China so the US did not get much of the pie. Also electricity has crashed the whaling business. So the Philippine has become an unprofitable colony so the US just wanted to abandon it. Hawaii, on the other hand, was much more attractive. It was reachable by overnight Pan Am Clipper plane from San Francisco and Los Angeles. It had a small local population which could be tamed fairly easily. Cheap labor, food, and materials could be conveniently shipped from Asian countries to develop the lands, build road, towns, naval base, airports and golf courses. Fresh new Japanese slave labor were employed in the 1890s because they are easy to manage compared to veteran Chinese slave labor who have gotten smart to be cheated upon. Now some 30% Hawaiians are Japanese. Originally the main purpose of keeping a fleet in Hawaii was to keep the military threat on Japan and China who were forced at gun point to sign unfair trading treatise with the US. For a fleet strong enough to attack Japan and China Pearl Harbor needed to have a big fleet with thousands of sailors and at that time means an all white navy. Therefore the white population made Hawaii a state instead of colony, territory or US possession. That was all about color and race, white supremacy and racism which is still largely the way today. I am a US citizen born and lived in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Texas, Beijing, Japan, and Germany. Asians know a lot about the history of US aggression and many have been to the islands because of convenient tourism. Asian countries like Singapore, Japan, Korea, and China know a lot about US military bases, especially Japan. They have little to do with democracy vs communism, that just does not exist in reality. There is no threat of Chinese communism in terms of ideology. That existed only 100 years ago from Karl Marx to Lenin. China could change the name of its Party and delete the word Communist. Its ideology is called Socialist Road with Chinese Characteristics existed since 1981 Economic Reform by Deng Xiao Ping. The fact that the ruling Party is still called Communist Party is both due to family linkage of the some the top officials as well as the issue of saving face, both are not technically necessary. Every one these days just want money because it guarantees power, not ideologies, not religion. Home prices in Beijing and Shanghai are equivalent to New York and Los Angeles. There are a million Chinese overseas students worldwide, occupying the largest portion of foreign students in every, I mean every, US top universities. Chinese tourist spending literally move stock markets. Do Americans really think those people are communists as defined in the dictionary? Well, the biggest reason for that is due to US TV propaganda such as Fax news telling you they are communist and that's why the US needed to raise trillion dollar defense budgets all the time. By keeping the fog thick the rich have gotten much richer in the past 30 years since Reagan. US bases are tools for making money for a bunch of big US corporations and lives of US soldiers are expandable. If you die you still get your salary plus some medals and certificates for your wall. Alright, talk again next time.
I like that you make all these claims about American intentions and yet fail to provide any evidence. Sprinkling in real historical events with your own post hoc just-so story to explain them may fool the gawking rabble of invalids, but I for one am not convinced. Have a nice day.
@@craftlet9047 or just look at reality and see it
@@craftlet9047 Very simple. In its 245 year of history the US has not gone to war for 16. How many millions of civilians they killed? How many million of refugees died on the roads? How many contries in the UN support the US againist China in any issues? The peoples of the world do not like the US and now they have a new leader, China. Bye.
@@michael511128 Seems like you are using an overly broad concept of "WAR" there friend. Also seem to be counting a single day with shooting as a "YEAR". Use honest math, then we can talk.
@@OtherDAS Check Wikipedia. Modest figure US bombed 24 countries since 1945, Latin America, Middle East and Africa; killed a few million civilians and more than ten million refugee deaths. Millions of mines left in Vietnam and Cambodia killed 40,000 plus people after the war, estimated to take 300 years to dig them all out. US trillion dollar military budgets force the rest of the world to play this game contributing to climate change that will offset the effect of the 2 billion cars on earth turning into electric vehicles. You should google to lean more math.
I had no idea... I knew we had colonies but I had no idea as to the actual role they played or the fact that they existed in our history 🤯
The U.S is the premier imperialist power today.
You should really get his book. It was a real eye opener.
they still exist by the way!
Loved this book. Would LOVE to have Daniel on my podcast to discuss this book
This is so fascinating. My sympathies to those people living in U.S. territories. They have no voice.
compare the freedoms the peoples of guam to the peoples of hong kong. and then reflect for a while on how ignant you sound.
@@jamespitoola1954 if you compare it to HK yes...but in comparison to usa mainlanders his words are true.
@@jamespitoola1954 Hong Kong wasn't Bad before China now took it back. They had a flourishing democracy and a flourishing economy.
Wrong. Quite a few territories like American Samoa have wanted the benefits accruing to recognised US territories, eg Samoa. In fact, American Samoans effectively vote for the US than any others, by enlisting in the military more often than Any otherUS state or territory.
No. Immerwahr plays on the young’s historical ignorance to gain their sympathy, not to fairly inform them. (SEE MY LENGTHY rebuke and reply elsewhere on this thread, posted today.)
Fascinating talk, I'm ordering the book now.
Immerwahr replaces the word "purchase" (U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia) with the word "annexation". That of course makes the transaction sound far more sinister and warlike.
Which Americans do all the time when is someone else action, yet use unlimited euphemisms when is themselves, which further inflates the idea of US as the real good guys and everyone else as evil.
Of course most of Alaska was controlled by its actual native Alaskan inhabitants in 1867. Just like with the Louisiana Purchase, what the US actually bought was the right to be recognized by European governments as the one with the right to eliminate, assimilate, or dominate the indigenous people.
Holy crap I've been through public school. Studied ww2 and been to the war museum in Louisiana and never once have I read that the Philippines was US colony. I thought we were in Philippines as allies not as defense of US citizens. Pretty dark history that isn't taught.
I suppose this presentation is for the ignorant masses? Alaska was sold to the US by Russia, and Russia wanted to. He also shies away from talking about Cuba after the war despite it also being a Spanish territory. No mention of all the US infrastructure, education, etc projects and how well the Philippines and others were treated compared to how the British, French, etc treated their territories. His stupidly simplistic explanation for why the Europe First strategy was adopted. Making it sound like the US completely abandoned the Pacific until the end of the war. The reason for cutting the Japanese off from escape because they were determined to fight to the death. The fact that MacArthur was one of the biggest advocates on behalf of Asians, etc. On, and on, and on. This guy sounds great, but he's garbage. Blinded by some agenda or whatever? I don't know.
Puerto Rico recently had a referendum in which the majority agreed to be part of the united states.
At least as a territory you get some kind of protection, being a banana republic sounds less pleasant.
@@Logan-xu1mm The Puerto Ricans put in a lot more than what they get, they pay taxes and fight in the military they need to be represented.
@@incisivecommenter5974 Then they can vote for Statehood or Independence. but they don't. Stop being paternalistic and trying to decide for them.
@@OtherDAS That's what the referendum was for. Puerto Ricans agreed to be part of the United States. Its up to Congress to act, to add them into the union.
Republicans DO NOT want to add PR because they tend to vote Democrat.
@@incisivecommenter5974 Last referendum I saw has THREE options. Status Quo, Statehood, Independence. SQ won, Statehood did not though it came close. Independence just under 1%. This was before Hurricane and the want more Fed dollars.
Superb talk. Thanks a lot. And greetings from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
So if I am hearing this right, most Americans were not even aware of the colonies we held, in large part. So it seems odd that we are today meant to feel guilty for something the vast population was not even aware of.
Green text (see reddit) for responsible citizens.
Because our ignorance led to the suffering of people. We today should not feel guilty but be aware of the mistakes so that we dont repeat them. We still have lots of colonies. And we should rethink this as it's ironic for the country of freedom, formerly a colony, to own colonies and deny our colonies self determination.
I stopped watching at 10:52. Up to this point, the speaker seems to argue that the US was hiding the fact that the Philippines were a colony. But this was not true, and by far. Transition to independence in 1946 was already scheduled, and the Philippines were largely autonomous as the Commonwealth of the Philippines since 1935. This is why Roosevelt focused on the US - because the Philippines were no longer part of the US (in any sense) since 1935.
It’s an interesting talk, but not one without a slanted view on the matter, one that is more aligned with todays historical reinterpretation of the people in the margins being victims of the people in the center.
Unfortunately, the Japanese disagreed.
I know this is a late reply but he actually talked about it later on into the presentation.
Great video! Very informative, but the American empire marches on! As a Puerto Rican I know too well the nature of the empire's cruelty just ask my fellow islands you know the 3000 dead Boricua on the island.
The Philippines is part of the Greater United States
@@chessonso2610 WAS part of the USA. NOT anymore and hasn't been since 1946
@@BXGUY73 Philippines' independence rested due to the existing Treaty of Manila 1946, but there are two other broader treaties such as Treaty of Paris 1898 and Treaty of Washington 1900. All the 3 treaties are still in force. Having said that, it can not be denied that the Philippines was bought by United States from Spain in 1898.
Aren’t you easily impressed! I am underwhelmed by your awe.
@@Orson2u we've had the massacre of Ponce where the US government killed 200+ peaceful protestors then they sterilized like a third of our women then recently 3000 or so died thanks to Hurricane Maria. We always keep loving the empire or at best trying to ignore the obvious. Sorta like how a wife of an abuser will defend him by saying, "I deserved it or it was an accident... He's still good!" That's sorta the mentality around here. A few purges and attacks on our civil liberties over a course of 100+ years it becomes the new normal. You don't often pause and think about how fucked up it all is... Until you talk to the elders or open up a history book.
Forever wars. Perpetual expansion. Sounds empire like to me
Good! I kind of wish we would still expand.
@@lonedesertfox and eventually you will shrink back just like every other empire leaving you living with memories of grandeur and being attacked by the woke
@@howardchambers9679 aye! For it is the duty of the old to look back and be glad at what they accomplished and of the young to go out and accomplish more!
@@lonedesertfox yea, just like Iraq, the old people are so glad at what they've done they pretend they didn't want to do it in the first place. But don't worry the young will get sent back again soon enough to 'accomplish' more
@@matthewc8241 go watch jocko willink having a talk with Jordan Peterson and you can get an idea of what kind of stuff happened there. But anyhow, what my idealism is of an expansion into surrounding territories like Mexico, there is so much potential there and it is ridden with cartel control and absolutely corrupt politicians. Also adding the technological prowess of the US to places that are impoverished would be an immense good if only we could get some kind of law to exist in those places.
While it is tragic, a war on the scale of WWII forced decisions of bad and worse. Defending England over the Philippines was strategic. England was necessary to win the war in total. The industrial capacity and current war machine that England already had compared to the combat forces and capabilities of the native Philippinos make is such that when fighting a war on 2 fronts, you have to focus one over the other. Had the U.S. spend time and resources on the islands, and England fell, it is likely or probable that the U.S. and Allies could have lost the war in its entirety.
38:28 why is this part cut out?
How ironic it is that he is talking about information being unavailable and the next part of his talk is censored out.
the army refers to the logo map as CONUS for continental US and everything else that is America as OCONUS (outside the continental US, yes the military is an imaginative group)
40:06 This is no judgement on the woman speaking, but her voice is the voice i hear in my head when i think patronizing. Again, no judgement on the woman speaking, as i do not know her. And a fantastic lecture.
Edit: Nevermind, everyone sounds annoying now. I think its just his eloquence that makes others sound weird.
Expansionism needs to be called out.
It used to be called imperialism, but people fear using the term, lest they should be identified as 'communists' , 'lefties' and all the oethr negative connotation sthat THE ULTIMATE CAPITALIST IMPERIALIST STATE has worked so hard to link to all concepts of People's self-determination and empowerment
@@GeaVox America has wiped out the Imperialist economic model.
Red China and Russia are the only significant empires left. So, anti-imperialism is still an on-going project.
Red China wants to re-establish imperialism -- in the classic manner. See North Korea, Burma... perhaps more to come.
BTW, the USA is hugely Socialist at this time -- and has been a hugely socialist economy since FDR -- eighty-years ago.
Pull your head out of your dogma.
Guam and Puerto Rico are NOT colonies. They are territories -- with absolutely no impulse to make them more like the mainland.
These Dependencies have it so good that they just refuse to leave America -- even if we say: "Shoo... shoo...."
Every dang vote by the PR ends up with a vote for the Status Quo.
Guam will NEVER leave. It won't even hold a vote on the matter... it's so far out of the question.
BTW, Guamanians have THREE-TIMES the economic well being of their cousins a few miles across the Pacific.
They know that if they're ever attacked by an alien entity -- the World will come to an end. They are untouchable.
In the meantime, they have a rocking tourist business -- ironically -- hugely with the Japanese. (Think weddings.)
In Japan, chicks want a tropical honeymoon. Entire resorts -- the finest in the world -- exist in Hawaii for this trade.
This was a timeless presentation. Thank you.
Needs another perspectives.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 Maybe you do
@@deliarebaudengo5440 on the contrary, you definitely do.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 what a surprise
@@deliarebaudengo5440 ;)
So...color matters, race matters, white privilege is what this is call...being a secondary citizen means quality and equality is not of a standard priority. Being a minority and being treated as one can have a devastating effect on individuals. I am considered to be a middle class minority and one might say, why am I complaining?...it is because I see and hear a lot of injustice situations in my area as well as other parts of this country such as Detroit. MI, New Orleans, major parts Mississippi and Georgia and Alabama, these areas are heavily populated or defined by ppl of color, look at other areas around the boarders of the United States that are considered to be part of the continent such as the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico these areas have more minorities and you can tell by the way their treated in devastating situations historically and up to current events...where they stand in citizenship is very painful.
Loved this, yes back then we had Real teachers who taught you to think and question! ROFL Good conversation girls!
Fascinating talk!
I loved living in Guam for 4 years, and as for their relationship and views on their American-ness I'd say... It's complicated. There's Guam culture (in which I'd include "everyone who calls the island home") and then Chamorro culture (closer to pure native). Chamorro culture is celebrated, but in a kind of Americanized way (weekly food-and- exhibition festival with vendors and food carts; Big John (RIP brother) and his carabao rides at Fort Soledad, &c.). Guam culture as a whole is a lot like other small islands, incl. Hawaii (e.g. a half-hour drive is a looooooong way). They have politicians and elections like anywhere stateside, and have certainly been influenced by the US politically vis-a-vis systems of govt.
There are roads you should definitely not drive down unless you want to get a beating, but on the other hand I could show up to a Chamorro neighbor's bbq with a case of Bud and be perfectly welcome.
The view of the Japanese is interesting, since Guam is a major tourist destination for them and they spend a lot of money. There's also some really great Japanese businesses there, restaurants and shops and the like. There's a recognition of what the Japanese did in WW2, but it seems like water under the bridge for the most part. They left some cool forts and dive spots
All told it's a place full of people being people. Some love America and see themselves as part of it; some hate it. Most don't care or think too much about it. Of course this was 10 years ago so take it with a grain of salt.
Fascinating. Still, I wonder what the connection is between what you told us and the theme of the book and lecture.
@@stavroskarageorgis4804 well it's been a year, but I think my point was that Guam is a good case study for what American "empire" looks like (or could look like, or maybe SHOULD look like): relatively benign and aloof, and only interested in control to the point that the military can operate freely there.
We did not annex Alaska, we purchased from Russia.
Because land needs to become suitibly settled. There is a reason the Louisiana purchase didn't instantly all become states
Yeah, might want to check a dictionary.....
annex verb -
1 : to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition
//Many privileges were annexed exclusively to royalty.
2 archaic : to join together materially : unite
3 : to add to something earlier, larger, or more important
//annexed a bibliography to the thesis
4 : to incorporate (a country or other territory) within the domain of a state
@@ramel684 Google's definition "add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation." appropriation is "the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission." We had Russia's permission.
@@rikuown Google's definition is just one of many. Merriam-Webster, Dictionary dot com, Collins, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, just for a few examples, do not include force or coercion as a required part of their definitions
@@ramel684 Okay well it's a pretty weak argument when you have to resort to picking particular definitions. Why use the word annex? Considering the conflicting definitions, it seems like a bad word to use in this context. Of course, I know it's because we're trying to imply that usa bad and we need to subtly imply that with using words with unclear definitions. Could just say the purchase of Alaska, but again that doesn't have the negative connotation that this guy is trying to lump in with it.
So far this is a great lecture. I certainly was not aware that the Japanese attacked all those other places within hours of each other. Of course I knew the Philippine's were a large part of the effort against the Japanese, but I didn't know that they were attacked the same day (dateline stuff notwithstanding).
I think the reason Hawaii got so much more recognition is because the extreme damage to our Navy. I mean 20 ships sunk, with the now iconic USS Arizona blocking escape routes and over 300 airplanes destroyed and over 2400 American lives lost. Far less were lost in the Philippine's if my research is correct.
Manila is the most destroyed city next to Warsaw Poland during world war 2. The longest and most destructive naval battle U.S had participated in history. And U.S surrender to Japan in the Philippines that leads to *Bataan death march* that caused 70,000 both U.S military and Filipino March to Hell.
The problem with current historians is summed up by the quote.
"To copy one contemporary is plagiarism. To copy 5 is research."
True
@@perperson199 primary sources are a thing of the past.
America didn't become an empire when it colonized the Philippines, it was an empire right from the beginning. The fact that the US conquered and incorporated Native American nations made it an empire from the start. That is the difference between a nation and an empire, an empire rules over multiple nations.
Oscar and the GI? There seems to be a part of this missing. Anybody know the missing piece?
21:29
I’m in my living room clapping to his sentence “I wanted to....”
Goddamn this lecture is good
I suppose this presentation is for the ignorant masses? Alaska was sold to the US by Russia, and Russia wanted to. He also shies away from talking about Cuba after the war despite it also being a Spanish territory. No mention of all the US infrastructure, education, etc projects and how well the Philippines and others were treated compared to how the British, French, etc treated their territories. His stupidly simplistic explanation for why the Europe First strategy was adopted. Making it sound like the US completely abandoned the Pacific until the end of the war. The reason for cutting the Japanese off from escape because they were determined to fight to the death. The fact that MacArthur was one of the biggest advocates on behalf of Asians, etc. The fact that US territories like Guam have been asked repeatedly, yet don't want to become States, and don't want to be independent because they like where they are. On, and on, and on. This guy sounds great, but he's garbage. Blinded by some agenda or whatever? I don't know...
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 this presentation was to spread information and correct misinformation
You think it’s a stupidly simplistic explanation for why we all but abandoned our territories in that area
More importantly: stop talking about an island like Guam as if you spoke for them: you need to snap out of it
@@rckli Truth hurts ;)
Incredible. I'll be looking at reviews of his book, interested in reading!
This was so good! Thank you!
Fantastic presentation! I learned a lot, does anyone know what was said during the cut where the us soldier was talking to the Filipino man?