You must be really dumb, what country is willingly wanting to give away itself like a gift? 😂 Especially like ne that uses an opposing economic system.
The irony is that Spain's economic and military aid was crucial to the independence of the United States, and this is how the Yankees returned the favor to Spain.
@@jareersmoker1721 You really don't know anything about your own history, Spain also helped mainly because it was a enemy of Great Britain, it provided supplies to the colonists. Instead of clowning on someone who has more knowledge on your own history, actually inform yourself.
@@jareersmoker1721Investigate a little more. Spain give money, supllies, weapons, enter in Florida dividing the british forces, and then continue to the north, the spanish army attack british supplies ships and at the same time force british to fight in some fronts at the same time around the world. This contribution was recognize by Washington for example. Search about Gardoqui and Bernardo de Galvez
Another added note is that the Teller Amendment was passed by Congress because many congressmen were in the sugar industry and were afraid Cuban companies would start competing with them, along with the fact that Cuba was mostly Catholic and Hispanic which made the American upper class uneasy. They thought it was better to incorporate a territory like the Philippines that was farther away and unlikely to become a state; “out of sight, out of mind”
I think it was not just being hispanic but even relatively dark ones; that carribeans were the least bit blacker than some other latinos also made them uneasy I suspect
@@SUpersaiyajinjerkbagYou are correct! It has nothing to do with the industry. It has everything to do with having a black state of the union. That’s still the reason they oppose the annexation of Puerto Rico. If it become a state, Puerto Rico would have more political power than half the states in the US due to its population. Republicans would never allow that. It would shift the spheres of power in the US forever.
@@joved1662Eh, Cuban population is almost 60% white, and probably back in 1899 even more So no, there many other reasons, one is that they made many legal documents promising to respect Cuban independece
@@joved1662Republicans are the ones who wouldn’t allow Puerto Rican statehood? Then why are Democrats in a majority in Congress and scheduled no votes on anything related to statehood? It was under the last Puerto Rican governor, who was Republican, that they even had a statehood vote. Puerto Rico also has a non voting state delegate in Congress that’s Republican, not Democrat. The Democrat Party chooses not to give statehood for Puerto Rico. They are focusing on trying to give statehood for Washington DC instead
@@familyandfriends3519 Well it not totally independence is it? The USA demand for their help was that Cuba can't do anything without them saying so. Independence in name only.
@@familyandfriends3519 That the point being independent in name. Nearly all of the economy is now in the hand of the USA for that prices. Even the when involved in forgein affairs have to go through the USA directly. The congress don’t happy if the USA just leave Cuba without gaining anything.
Or, here me out. The US stop it's 50 year long embargo of Cuba which is the literally reason Cuba is in the situation its in. The US sees Cuba as nothing more than a potential puppet. Look at how terrible living conditions were in Cuba when the US actually did control the Island. It was so bad the people launched a revolution.
And how are you risking your life to travel to Cuba? Right now I know three people from the US who are currently on vacation in Cuba and they love it there lmao
@@CleanupKrew7Isn't that what all tropical countries do? I mean, I don't think Cuba is as awful as some media can portray it but it's certainly not as perfect as it sells itself to tourists
@@CleanupKrew7I meant it as in Cubans going to the U.S. no the other way around. Because of the governments many rules against traveling to the U.S., Cubans have always risked their lives to come to the states longing for a better life. Mostly sailing thru the ocean on boats, which a lot them unfortunately sink, and most of the ones who arrive get deported,then put in jail since it's seem as treason against your own country. If Cuba was a state,Cubans could travel back and forth to the U.S. without any problems. Probably they wouldn't even have to leave Cuba since it would have a better economy.
@@BlackTrafficConeHeadObviously because Cubans and Hispanics are more white while filipinos are Asian and at that time, why would they let go of non-whites who could work for them?
That's one of the most interesting alternate history paths IMO. If the Soviets couldn't station missiles in Cuba, would there have been a Turkish missile crisis? Without Cuba's involvement in the Angolan Civil War, would Namibia still be a part of South Africa? Wild.
Maybe they would instead try to set up a puppet dictatorship in Nicaragua and Station their missiles there, so we would instead be talking about the Nicaraguan Missile Crisis.
@@kristinagraversgaard5328Well, don't forget recent history when one of our president's tried to buy Greenland. Most likely it was renamed in that alternate timeline. I can't imagine to what. 😂😂😂
Te uss Maine did not explote as said in this vídeo. It was sunk from within by the uss Navy to justify the attack on Spain. In the 70s It was recovered from the ocean and there are plenty off photos showing how the structure was blown Up from within
@@degstollworld war 2 or When German forces occupied Denmark in 1940, Iceland assumed control over its own foreign affairs and gradually moved toward complete independence from Denmark. Following a plebiscite, Iceland formally became an independent republic on June 17, 1944.
Well Puerto Rico, Guam and everything else the US gained from Spain aside from the Philippines and Cuba are still US territories and are yet to be become states. Maybe the US just want the benefits of those locations without having to deal with them having proper representation..
I wish people would actually live in Cuba for a year as a regular citizen, not as a tourist. Then you can give opinions about USA and Cuba. Learn history but there’s no such thing as an embargo done by USA. Cuba is how it is because of it’s own government. I’m Cuban by the way. It’s an insult seeing these ridiculous comments by people who don’t even live there.
@@riowhi7 thank you for your comment. It’s very simple. Cuba claims that there’s an embargo but the reality is that is you pay attention to the products in Cuba, they say made us USA. Cuba buys directly from US. The issue is that they use those products for tourism, which happens to be their main source of income. Now, regular citizens don’t have access to those things. Cuba plays a lot of politic. They restrict everything and everyone. Also, the UN is another organization who speaks and does more wrong than good. The sad really is that Cuba will always play victim role because is how they have always survive since the Castros took power. Pay attention that for them everything that happens in their country is because of US. Why is that? Because they hide their lies saying that US has taken everything from them. What do you think happens when a regular citizen tries to better themselves? The government goes and take everything they accomplished because they don’t want their citizens with power. I hope this helps! Have a good day
@@kocant1274 Yeah, they just want us to not be socialist anymore and instead make part of their influence sphere. Ofc the political parties don't care about that, they just want the votes
@@Ian-gi2fc The thing is it is impossible to communist states to fail because they don't exist, in a communist society there is no state, so i don't know what you are talking about, maybe you meant socialist countries but only China and Vietnam are one, and that is still debatable, if you take the URSS as an example of socialism and only see the corruption and totalitarism of it instead of the full picture, ofc it's looks F bad. I'm a Cuban and i can't tell you, we are not socialist since the 90s or maybe even before And WTF? Russia? Bro they are not communist, they are a complete opposite, an extremely conservative and statist society with righ-leaned morals.
cuba has a better life expectancy, free healthcare, 100% literacy rate, near 0 homelessness, better workers rights, subsidised amenities, and a bettter covid response compared to the USA loser
@@rufusalbertson4185it's also a lot poorer, much less military, and very easy to invade by anyone who wants it(assuming America doesn't do anything about it)
No, Cuban revolutionaries we’re very unpopular compared to royalists, additionally Cuban rebels were mostly composed of racist Afro-Americans and mulatos which fought after being promised the same conditions to those in haiti, which basically are to become superior to anyone that’s not black on the island
@@AntilleanConfederation im not wrong buddy, I’m right, I’m not saying anything about masonry, I’m saying the truth; Afro-Americans in Cuba were promised “”freedom”” by maximo gomez, and when America had already occupied the island and was ready to establish their military government, Spain offered maximo gomez a pact in which both Spaniards and mambises would fight to liberate the island of Yankees, he declined and became an American leashed dog, let’s not talk about the buffonic and unmoral acts of Cubans in the guerra chiquita, 10 years war, and such
For all of you saying that Cuba would be a perfect socialist/communist country if it weren’t for the embargo…. ARE YOU SLOW? You’re plainly admitting that Cuba would solely benefit from a capitalist superpower by having trade deals with them… you’re contradicting yourselves it’s pathetic. You admit to capitalism benefiting other countries because communism and socialism fails to help develop technology and countries. 💀
I'm a Cuban living in Texas. Believe me, United States, you guys don't want a state like us joining the Union. It would be like a reverse Civil War: Cuba wanting to stay and the other 50 wanting to kick us out. Just the sheer amount of loud reguetón played at 3:00 am on Wednesdays would be overwhelming
@@mr.battledroid2195best for the Caribbean to form its own union. Cuba , DR and PR can be one union of states and that gives them way more power and influence over being a commonwealth to Spain or USA
@@realdragao6367you realize Puerto Rico doesn’t want independence right We are helping their economy people would be starving Also even though we almost annexed it we didn’t and we gave them independence
@@Landotp stfu with your propaganda, if puerto rico doesnt want independence then why did the cia kill several puerto ricans for joining independence parties which at one point had 50%+ support inside the region
@@rubenciogd8116 Cubans in Cuba obviously don’t because they live on an ultra manipulative nationalistic regime, but most Cubans that live out of Cuba including myself change their mind and end up hoping for Cuba to reunify with spain
@@kredfieldk No Cuban Missile crisis, no bay of pigs, no communism, no Castro in charge. Honestly jfk might’ve lived. The list is extremely long. The US should’ve done it tbh. But no, The Republicans at the time didn’t want competition from the sugar plantations or to annex a land full of Catholics and blacks. Racism and Capitalism once again (Edit): I forgot to mention Cuba’s involvement in Angola would’ve never happened. Who knows what effects that would have in Africa.
It would totally kick ass to merge actual USA, with Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, Phillipines, Canada, Australia, New Zeland, Virgin Islands, Northern Islands, Samoa, UK, Ireland, South Korea and Grand Colombia (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama) into a United Federation (dollarized, decentralized and capitalistic)
@@Colombian.Spaniardtienes que tener dos dedos de frente para entender que eso sería un desastre y tendría una política inigual y opresiva para aquellos que no sean de origen anglo, o al reves
@@Wasnt-1 tbf they did that to all of Spain's possession. If they intended the Philippines to be a state, they wouldn't have set up the Commonwealth to prepare for independence. There were already plans to let it go before WW2. IMHO though if the war never happened the transition to independent country would have been smoother.
@@nunyabiznes33 so what about in world war 2 ? it's been a lot of years ago when spain has the philippines as their colony and america still has the philippines and they actually fought on the philippines side versus the japanese then after that they'd officially invaded the philippines before handing their independence
@@Wasnt-1 more like, the Philippines fought on the American side, coz it was a territory of the latter at the time. Like I said, there was supposed to be a planned transition from Quezon's Commonwealth administration that was cut short by the Japanese invasion.
The U.S figured out how to create an empire that’s more stable than what the Europeans had . An economics based empire instead of a land based empire . Get all the perks of the land based one and without the criticism. It could’ve kept expanding territory wise . But the Us is all about profit and it will choose the most profitable route
If it *had* managed to become a state, I wonder if that would of prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis, since the Soviets couldn’t bother us on our own territory 🤔 Edit: Nah, they probably woulda just put the missiles in the Bahamas or something :P
Could’ve wished the United States annexed all of Mexico. If needed. Making Cuban annexation easier and statehood as well. I wouldn’t have care if the demographics became half Latino. Heck they could’ve expanded as further south as Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and the guyanas. And as far north as Canada, Alaska, and Greenland. And added the Philippines as well. The USA and Russia would be more similar in the sense of multiculturalism. But their ideologies would still differ and they must deter any opposing ideologies that threatens their rule of law.
No, I'm glad the USA mostly rejected imperialism. But Puerto Rico was a mistake, and needs to be ended now. And having all those military bases around the world
More then hundred soldiers were killed on that ship it was an accident most likely but it also may had been accident the spanished caused, but even if it wasn't and the USA dod not attack spain colonies , during world war 2 the Japanese woukd have invaded a Spanish held Philippines, and Cuba still be part of Spain and got independence and then Cuba fall to communism anyway only Castro would have had a stronger support from the Cubans who would have grown sick of Spanish imperialism then we get a Cuban missile crisis anyway.
Yes, they have tried to purchase it several times. And now some of the greatest petrol and minerals are known to be under Greenland's sovereignity, so perhaps they'll eventually purchase or take it by strength.
@@alejandrop.s.3942 with the world going to shit right now, if the global order falls apart. who realistically can stop us from taking land? which r close to their sphere of influence. greenland was of the western hemisphere using our time zone.
Im Cuban born and raised , we want freedom , and be a State , why go to Hawaii when Cuba is closer , real estate will boom , it will benefit both sides
Some comments: 1) Spain didn't rule over Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico... Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico WERE Spain and all the individuals living there had political representation in the Spanish National Parliament and the same rights than the Spaniards from the Peninsula 2) USS Maine didn't explode, USS Maine WAS EXPLODED by the USAmericans to have an excuse to invade Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Hitler performed the same trick to invade Poland in 1939 3) After the USAmerican invasion 1,5 M Filipinos (25% of the population at that time) were killed by the USAmericans (shouting "Kill everyone over ten!!") , Cuba was reduced to an economic colony, and Puerto Rico is still a colony of the USAmericans today...
The last line is funny, 'The United States gave Cuba it's independence'. These transplanted Spaniards, didn't wanted to be part of the Spanish empire. Nor did they wanted to change their Overlord to the United States. The United States would have had a difficult military operation, trying to suppress a pushback from the new county of Cuba. Refer to my previous post, concerning French forces aiding the rebelling American states.
What? Do you realize the royalist and separatist factions were greatly divided? Claiming cubans as a whole didn’t want independence is as foolish as it can be, Cuba should have remained as part of Spain… and I can say this being Cuban myself
The “rules”: you cant have blacks You cant have natives You must obey us always, and never turn to democracy, stay a military dictatorship! No wonder cuba went communist
In the late 40's , National Geographic magazine ran a report on the island titled , " Cuba , the US's sugar bowl " , which simbolized the view and status held by Washington D.C. in regard to that country : a mere one - product commodity supplier.
USA perhaps the second biggest Invader in the World, below or Above UK. Sure they help us defeating Nazi but because UK and France make US dollar the world Currency. USA always do things for themself and yet depicting themself as a Hero, and they always make their rival Country like Russia or any other country that agains them look bad
In English, “America” refers to the United States of America, but referring to “America” as either that or the American supercontinent is a feature of languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Different languages have different meanings of words that may look identical.
@@ravensfan777 that's a mistake and has nothing to do with language. I bet you don't even know the origin of the word "America". For your information, America (the continent)is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent. And for your information, Columbus didn't even sent foot in North America where the united States is located!
@@ferdieshoes2310 No, it has everything to do with language. WonderWhy did a video on this same topic and I have yet to hear one English speaker refer to the entire supercontinent as “America” in isolation. I have heard “the Americas” and “the American supercontinent” before, but not simply plain “America” in isolation.
@@anonymoususer8895He is not wrong, Cuba and florida where under the "Capitania general de Cuba" a province of the Virroyalty of New Spain (Spanish Mexico).
First of all, America itsnt country but a continent, gringoland is better, gringoland didnt want the independence of Cuba, it only wanted one more colony like Puerto Rico or the Philippines, and within the Anglo-Saxon culture of gringoland, the only thing that exists is the exposure of resources, Cuba achieved independence by itself.
@@4ev3rY America isn't a Continent, it's a Super-Continent. Nice try though. It's also the short 1 word name for The USA. So, yeah. Find a bridge & learn uour history, because to reasons that shock even me; no, American Leadership did NOT want to annex Cuba. Because it's pretty obvious we would have had we wanted to. We wanteda world power our of The American Super-Continent, Monroe Doctrine. While backbenchers in American Congress did argue for Cuban annexation, The Presidential figures & leaders in Gov't & Military did not want Cuban annexation. Teddy Roosevelt specifically fighting NOT to annex Cuba i imagine won't even compute with you but that's the truth. Cuba would've stayed a Spanish Colony without American-Spanish War. We didn't invade Cuba, we invaded Spain. Then we granted Cuban independence while annexing every other colony.
@@isfishie The reason why he said Greenland Almost became a US State because the US tried Buying Greenland 4 times from Denmark but The Danish goverment declined. The Recent one was in 2017 when trump Tried buying greenland.
Quick comment because a lot of these comments are making me a little upset especially coming from people who have little to no knowledge or experience from/about cuba. Cuba is a dictatorship and cuba is very communisy, cuba is not perfect cuba is not pretty anymore, theres no food no medicine no money nothing. buildings are crumbling, the people are dying and killing eachother from the desperation that they are feeling. we have been protesting for a few days recently and have been actively crying out for help for years but it falls on deaf ears because unless you are tuned into that news and those specific news outlets, our news doesnt get shared. and if it does get shared its false news put out by the cuban govt to avert attention. but coming from first gen cuban here, WE NEED HELP! Cuba has been suffering for 65 years! I just want my families island to be beautiful and free again😢 I wanna be able to visit with joy and feel proud of my country just like my puerto rican dominican colombian friends feel proud of their country. But all i feel is shame and impotence😕 i hope this reaches the right crowd
Jajaja. Exactamente!! EXACTLY!! Finalmente, a pesar de su gran tamaño y de su poderío militar, no pudo robarse ni Cuba ni Filipinas, por motivos diferentes pero no pudieron. La historia es así de caprichosa!! Sólo pudieron quedarse con la pequeña isla de Puerto Rico, pero los boricuas siguen prefiriendo masivamente el idioma español, y solo quieren ser estado de EEUU por las ventajas económicas y de ciudadania que ello conlleva. Pero son cultural y lingüísticamente hispanos y eso no lo cambiará nunca nada, ni siquiera una estatalidad futura, si llega. Saludos desde Ibiza, España🇪🇸
Oh so winning a war is stealing land now, ok. Why don't you give all your lands to the Native Americans back and leave the Americas as an uncivilized and untouched continent.
My parents were born in Cuba and suffered through the communism and oppression there, and although I would prefer an independent Cuba that isn't communist, I would still rather the USA own Cuba than the current government.
@OjalaTeFusilen Disculpame por mi Español terrible como no es mi lengua primaria. No se quien te dijo que si los Estados Unidos tienian Cuba eyos funeran a matar y quitar la idioma y cultura. Yo preferio que Cuba sea independuebte y una Republica constitutional con democracia como los Estados Unidos. Tanbien algo que no entidenes es que las personas viviendo en Cuba son cuduadanos de 3 clase. Las personas en Cuba viven en pobreza bajo el communismo.
@@WarLegend50Over 4/5 people in Cuba support their socialist government. The USA should just remove their sanctions to help them, but every day they choose not to
My comment (on several Facebook groups I have forwarded this to (along with a link to the video) Some of the things to avoid when learning European Portuguese. Plus some things to do, including some links to some of the things to do. Don't worry about what other people think of your first efforts, just keep going, in regular, small, bitesize chunks, and you'll get there, would seem to be the top tip. It would be interesting to hear what other people think.
Cuba should petition for statehood as a way to end the embargo.
No it's a Spanish colony then we should take french colonies
You must be really dumb, what country is willingly wanting to give away itself like a gift? 😂 Especially like ne that uses an opposing economic system.
Why ? To enter your dystopian capitalism?
@@peterkoi1535I can ensure your any “dystopian” capitalism your worried about is much better than Cuba’s communist dictatorship.
@@claretblue2509 Cuban communism is way better than dystopian capitalism I assume you
The irony is that Spain's economic and military aid was crucial to the independence of the United States, and this is how the Yankees returned the favor to Spain.
Even more than France's aid, but they will always forget Spain in the history books.
No it wasn’t 😂😂 if anything it was the French who helped us Americans out the most. L
@@jareersmoker1721that's what they taught you in your schools, which are nothing but brainwashing facilities.
@@jareersmoker1721 You really don't know anything about your own history, Spain also helped mainly because it was a enemy of Great Britain, it provided supplies to the colonists. Instead of clowning on someone who has more knowledge on your own history, actually inform yourself.
@@jareersmoker1721Investigate a little more. Spain give money, supllies, weapons, enter in Florida dividing the british forces, and then continue to the north, the spanish army attack british supplies ships and at the same time force british to fight in some fronts at the same time around the world.
This contribution was recognize by Washington for example. Search about Gardoqui and Bernardo de Galvez
Another added note is that the Teller Amendment was passed by Congress because many congressmen were in the sugar industry and were afraid Cuban companies would start competing with them, along with the fact that Cuba was mostly Catholic and Hispanic which made the American upper class uneasy. They thought it was better to incorporate a territory like the Philippines that was farther away and unlikely to become a state; “out of sight, out of mind”
I think it was not just being hispanic but even relatively dark ones; that carribeans were the least bit blacker than some other latinos also made them uneasy I suspect
@@SUpersaiyajinjerkbagYou are correct! It has nothing to do with the industry. It has everything to do with having a black state of the union. That’s still the reason they oppose the annexation of Puerto Rico. If it become a state, Puerto Rico would have more political power than half the states in the US due to its population. Republicans would never allow that. It would shift the spheres of power in the US forever.
@@joved1662Eh, Cuban population is almost 60% white, and probably back in 1899 even more
So no, there many other reasons, one is that they made many legal documents promising to respect Cuban independece
@@joved1662Republicans are the ones who wouldn’t allow Puerto Rican statehood? Then why are Democrats in a majority in Congress and scheduled no votes on anything related to statehood? It was under the last Puerto Rican governor, who was Republican, that they even had a statehood vote. Puerto Rico also has a non voting state delegate in Congress that’s Republican, not Democrat. The Democrat Party chooses not to give statehood for Puerto Rico. They are focusing on trying to give statehood for Washington DC instead
No america tried buying cuba twice and cuba always wanted to be independent
Him: we go back to 1898
The Year: 1899
edit: i liked my own comment
And Cuba got independence from Spain not usa
@@familyandfriends3519 Well it not totally independence is it?
The USA demand for their help was that Cuba can't do anything without them saying so.
Independence in name only.
@@thanhhoangnguyen4754 Cuba got independence but would be occupied by USA until the Republic government formed
@@familyandfriends3519 That the point being independent in name. Nearly all of the economy is now in the hand of the USA for that prices. Even the when involved in forgein affairs have to go through the USA directly.
The congress don’t happy if the USA just leave Cuba without gaining anything.
@@thanhhoangnguyen4754 like they did with Haiti
As a cuban living in the USA I wish Cuba became a state. The economy would be much better and we could travel to the US without risking our lives.
Or, here me out. The US stop it's 50 year long embargo of Cuba which is the literally reason Cuba is in the situation its in. The US sees Cuba as nothing more than a potential puppet. Look at how terrible living conditions were in Cuba when the US actually did control the Island. It was so bad the people launched a revolution.
And how are you risking your life to travel to Cuba? Right now I know three people from the US who are currently on vacation in Cuba and they love it there lmao
@@CleanupKrew7Isn't that what all tropical countries do? I mean, I don't think Cuba is as awful as some media can portray it but it's certainly not as perfect as it sells itself to tourists
Then you would not be Hispanic and Latino until given back to Spain and getting independence only from Spain
@@CleanupKrew7I meant it as in Cubans going to the U.S. no the other way around. Because of the governments many rules against traveling to the U.S., Cubans have always risked their lives to come to the states longing for a better life. Mostly sailing thru the ocean on boats, which a lot them unfortunately sink, and most of the ones who arrive get deported,then put in jail since it's seem as treason against your own country. If Cuba was a state,Cubans could travel back and forth to the U.S. without any problems. Probably they wouldn't even have to leave Cuba since it would have a better economy.
They blew up the USS Maine to take Cuba and the Philippines from Spain.
And none of it worked
@@FrangkyMindwell they did took Cuba for 3 years while the Philippines continue to be a US colony until in 1935 to 1946
It probably was a boiler that blew up.
He conveniently left that out lol
@@BlackTrafficConeHeadObviously because Cubans and Hispanics are more white while filipinos are Asian and at that time, why would they let go of non-whites who could work for them?
Not making Cuba a State was a major security blunder.
😅😅😅 yeah imagine that they didnt want to be an imperialist puppet.
That's one of the most interesting alternate history paths IMO. If the Soviets couldn't station missiles in Cuba, would there have been a Turkish missile crisis? Without Cuba's involvement in the Angolan Civil War, would Namibia still be a part of South Africa? Wild.
Life in the caribbean would still be trash and a new Fidel Castro would rise to power in another island and let the USSR send nukes there
@legs9086 no since Cuba was a big deal since it directly attacked it. Also most lesser Antilles islands were part of other countries back then so
Maybe they would instead try to set up a puppet dictatorship in Nicaragua and Station their missiles there, so we would instead be talking about the Nicaraguan Missile Crisis.
@@2EntireLegslol, no.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 Ever heard of Nicaragua?
Cuba , Greenland and the others almost becoming a state is like when I say that I almost hooked up with a supermodel.
Yea and im President of france
Especially Greenland. Greenland has never been close to become a US state, let alone a US territory, or protectorate, unlike the rest.
@@kristinagraversgaard5328Well, don't forget recent history when one of our president's tried to buy Greenland. Most likely it was renamed in that alternate timeline. I can't imagine to what. 😂😂😂
@@KabobHope well, it was not close to almost. Neither they (the Greenlanders), nor we, wanted to sell
I feel like phillipines almost becoming a state is crazier than cuba
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Good thing I saved all of you guys
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@@dr.professor6435 🤓
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@@JAED5 cringe
Who really sank that ship? 🤣
I think one of the boilers overheated and exploded the ship
I think it was an inside job
Omg Verified youtuber
Love your prank videos
Americans did
I’m here to stop kids saying first 👍 also nice vid
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careful, hes a hero
@@robztuff yes
Te uss Maine did not explote as said in this vídeo. It was sunk from within by the uss Navy to justify the attack on Spain. In the 70s It was recovered from the ocean and there are plenty off photos showing how the structure was blown Up from within
Let's go back to 1898
Goes back to 1899
Him: We need to go back to 1898 Th year on the screen: 1899
“ many territories almost became US states”
Iceland left the chat
Could you explain?
US invaded Iceland during World War II
@@degstollworld war 2 or When German forces occupied Denmark in 1940, Iceland assumed control over its own foreign affairs and gradually moved toward complete independence from Denmark. Following a plebiscite, Iceland formally became an independent republic on June 17, 1944.
Iceland had never almost become á US state
@@QuitalongDayey What does that have to do with the video?
Well Puerto Rico, Guam and everything else the US gained from Spain aside from the Philippines and Cuba are still US territories and are yet to be become states.
Maybe the US just want the benefits of those locations without having to deal with them having proper representation..
Cuba got independence from Spain in 1898 by the treaty of Paris
They reclaimed their independence for being taxed with no representation yet they impose that status to others. Ah, the irony.
And they're better off under American control than Spanish. Well the Philippines isn't because they are an independent nation
@@newaccountdoesnotequaltrol6409 Frfr, college debt, my favourite.
The U.S is financially responsible for Puerto Rico and tge other Territories.
It's a One-Way streak.
I wish people would actually live in Cuba for a year as a regular citizen, not as a tourist. Then you can give opinions about USA and Cuba. Learn history but there’s no such thing as an embargo done by USA. Cuba is how it is because of it’s own government. I’m Cuban by the way. It’s an insult seeing these ridiculous comments by people who don’t even live there.
I assume the tourist areas are super nice and fancy but its all a facade isnt it.
@@Razor-gx2dq yep that’s exactly how it works.
"there's no such thing as an embargo done by the USA"
So now we are just spewing blatant, easy-to-verify lies?
@@riowhi7 thank you for your comment. It’s very simple. Cuba claims that there’s an embargo but the reality is that is you pay attention to the products in Cuba, they say made us USA. Cuba buys directly from US. The issue is that they use those products for tourism, which happens to be their main source of income. Now, regular citizens don’t have access to those things. Cuba plays a lot of politic. They restrict everything and everyone. Also, the UN is another organization who speaks and does more wrong than good. The sad really is that Cuba will always play victim role because is how they have always survive since the Castros took power. Pay attention that for them everything that happens in their country is because of US. Why is that? Because they hide their lies saying that US has taken everything from them. What do you think happens when a regular citizen tries to better themselves? The government goes and take everything they accomplished because they don’t want their citizens with power. I hope this helps! Have a good day
@@reinaldohernandez290 I'm Cuban and I agree.
Americans: "China needs to back off and accept Taiwan's independence."
Also Americans: "We're starving you Cubans until you give us your country."
@@Ian-gi2fcHow is it not bad?
The United States does not want Cuba. Learn history
@@kocant1274 Yeah, they just want us to not be socialist anymore and instead make part of their influence sphere. Ofc the political parties don't care about that, they just want the votes
@@Ian-gi2fc For god's sake, that is like me saying:
Democracy is not a good idea, look at North Korea
@@Ian-gi2fc The thing is it is impossible to communist states to fail because they don't exist, in a communist society there is no state, so i don't know what you are talking about, maybe you meant socialist countries but only China and Vietnam are one, and that is still debatable, if you take the URSS as an example of socialism and only see the corruption and totalitarism of it instead of the full picture, ofc it's looks F bad. I'm a Cuban and i can't tell you, we are not socialist since the 90s or maybe even before
And WTF? Russia? Bro they are not communist, they are a complete opposite, an extremely conservative and statist society with righ-leaned morals.
can you say hi i love your geography videos
The biggest barrier to that happening today would be the travel & tourism industry of Florida taking a nosedive.
It would make Florida affordable and Cuba expensive.
It must so frustrating living in Cuba.. knowing 90miles away your life could improve.
cuba has a better life expectancy, free healthcare, 100% literacy rate, near 0 homelessness, better workers rights, subsidised amenities, and a bettter covid response compared to the USA loser
@@rufusalbertson4185it's also a lot poorer, much less military, and very easy to invade by anyone who wants it(assuming America doesn't do anything about it)
@@Wilhelm-III its poor bc of the us embargo and european colonialism
Nah. We Americans don’t want them here!
@@rufusalbertson4185no amigo, está así por el comunismo, de que poronga hablas amigo
Cuba after USA gave them independence: Imma ruin this man's whole carrer
They didn't "give" a shit
US didn't give Cuba independence, Cuba fought for it
No, Cuban revolutionaries we’re very unpopular compared to royalists, additionally Cuban rebels were mostly composed of racist Afro-Americans and mulatos which fought after being promised the same conditions to those in haiti, which basically are to become superior to anyone that’s not black on the island
@@mr.battledroid2195😂😂😂😂 except no shit for brains they just didnt want to be ruled by racist white americans
@@mr.battledroid2195 wrong. Cubas war of independence was mostly a free Masonic effort.
@@AntilleanConfederation im not wrong buddy, I’m right, I’m not saying anything about masonry, I’m saying the truth; Afro-Americans in Cuba were promised “”freedom”” by maximo gomez, and when America had already occupied the island and was ready to establish their military government, Spain offered maximo gomez a pact in which both Spaniards and mambises would fight to liberate the island of Yankees, he declined and became an American leashed dog, let’s not talk about the buffonic and unmoral acts of Cubans in the guerra chiquita, 10 years war, and such
@@AntilleanConfederationif cuba wouldn't have been a stupid state and USA a stupid country Cuba would have never suffered
❤ your channel.
For all of you saying that Cuba would be a perfect socialist/communist country if it weren’t for the embargo…. ARE YOU SLOW?
You’re plainly admitting that Cuba would solely benefit from a capitalist superpower by having trade deals with them… you’re contradicting yourselves it’s pathetic.
You admit to capitalism benefiting other countries because communism and socialism fails to help develop technology and countries. 💀
😢 stop that’s too much thinking for commies
The turtle desired to swallow the crocodile 😂
I'm a Cuban living in Texas. Believe me, United States, you guys don't want a state like us joining the Union. It would be like a reverse Civil War: Cuba wanting to stay and the other 50 wanting to kick us out. Just the sheer amount of loud reguetón played at 3:00 am on Wednesdays would be overwhelming
lol give it time asero. My mates hail de Cuba and hope one day it'll be free in 500 years
Greenland???!!!
I think Denmark might have something to say about that.
Wait …..those saying that if Cuba was annexed to the USA , it would be better. I am a Puerto Rican laughing to all of them. 😂😂
PR would be another Cuba if it’s not an American territory
@@RadenYohanesGunawanmuch better to be a XXI century colony, in lieu of a full citizenship as it was with Spain.
Que opinas del movimiento reunificacionista con españa? Soy cubano.
@@RadenYohanesGunawanpuerto rico will become a Spanish autonomous region, just as chba
@@mr.battledroid2195best for the Caribbean to form its own union. Cuba , DR and PR can be one union of states and that gives them way more power and influence over being a commonwealth to Spain or USA
It amusing that we invaded, booted the Spanish out, and then just left. Lol.
It’s clear that Cuba ignored those conditions considering the fact that Castro somehow came into power and the USSR stationed nuclear missiles there 💀
Karma for opressing cubans.
Unfortunately puerto rico has failed to gain its independence like cuba.
And Karma for putting missiles in turkey
@@realdragao6367you realize Puerto Rico doesn’t want independence right
We are helping their economy people would be starving
Also even though we almost annexed it we didn’t and we gave them independence
@@Landotp stfu with your propaganda, if puerto rico doesnt want independence then why did the cia kill several puerto ricans for joining independence parties which at one point had 50%+ support inside the region
One Latin America history class would make the “somehow” in your statement seem idiotic. It’s all quite clear how he was able to take power
Cuba must become a Spanish autonomous community again just as it used to be
They were on its own war of independence until 1898.
@@rubenciogd8116 so?
@@mr.battledroid2195 They don't seem to be willing to do that. Though some people in Puerto Rico want to rejoin to Spain
@@rubenciogd8116 Cubans in Cuba obviously don’t because they live on an ultra manipulative nationalistic regime, but most Cubans that live out of Cuba including myself change their mind and end up hoping for Cuba to reunify with spain
This would benefit both sides if they became apart of us
Quite literally it would destroy Cuba
Imagine the Cold War if Cuba was a state
Would have a big impact,
the Turkish missile crises problably wouldn't have happened
And Namibia would've been part of South Africa still
I really do not understand how is it that any country can just say that they are taking a country when you already have yours
It's because the land that makes up their country is stolen from native people and those natives got slaughtered in cold blood
2:22 have you tried going flat on this corner?
If USA had anexed Cuba, the world history, or at least the Americas' history would have changed completely
Explain
@@kredfieldk No Cuban Missile crisis, no bay of pigs, no communism, no Castro in charge. Honestly jfk might’ve lived. The list is extremely long. The US should’ve done it tbh. But no, The Republicans at the time didn’t want competition from the sugar plantations or to annex a land full of Catholics and blacks. Racism and Capitalism once again (Edit): I forgot to mention Cuba’s involvement in Angola would’ve never happened. Who knows what effects that would have in Africa.
The WW3 shouldn’t almost happen in the 1960’s if Cuba was an USA state.
@@Bife_11 True, when America stationed missiles in Turkiye it would have been way harder for the USSR to respond without Cuba
@@kredfieldk Cuban wouldn't be considered Hispanic and Latino like Puerto Ricans
Imho it should have, Cuba I mean in late 1850s.
The one thing constant with American history is that America does not like it’s boats messed with
Even if its not the fault of the other nation…
WHAT HISTORY? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@revenger8744cope
Wdym by that?
@@impairedtrout6917Cuba, Vietnam
Lets talk about how many dudes from Cuba be named Vladimir, Nikolai, and Alexei
“Greenland was almost a state”
No… not really
Not just "not really" just not at all.
I would really like to know how you edit these videos. What editing software do you use?
Cuba should be a US State. Just sayin
It would totally kick ass to merge actual USA, with Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, Phillipines, Canada, Australia, New Zeland, Virgin Islands, Northern Islands, Samoa, UK, Ireland, South Korea and Grand Colombia (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Panama) into a United Federation (dollarized, decentralized and capitalistic)
@@Colombian.SpaniardThat's the abortion of the Bolivar's dream
No, cuba should be a Spanish autonomous state again, just sayin
@@Colombian.Spaniardtienes que tener dos dedos de frente para entender que eso sería un desastre y tendría una política inigual y opresiva para aquellos que no sean de origen anglo, o al reves
@@mr.battledroid2195 It was autonomous for like, one year? Jajajajajaaj, bro, we fought hard for our independence and we gained it with our own blood.
Russia basically got their cue from uncle sam
man if philippines could've been a american state we should've had a better life
They never intended for the Philippines to be a state though.
@@nunyabiznes33 so what about the american purchase of the philippines from spain ?
and the american invasion of the philippines all about ?
@@Wasnt-1 tbf they did that to all of Spain's possession. If they intended the Philippines to be a state, they wouldn't have set up the Commonwealth to prepare for independence. There were already plans to let it go before WW2.
IMHO though if the war never happened the transition to independent country would have been smoother.
@@nunyabiznes33 so what about in world war 2 ? it's been a lot of years ago when spain has the philippines as their colony and america still has the philippines and they actually fought on the philippines side versus the japanese
then after that they'd officially invaded the philippines before handing their independence
@@Wasnt-1 more like, the Philippines fought on the American side, coz it was a territory of the latter at the time. Like I said, there was supposed to be a planned transition from Quezon's Commonwealth administration that was cut short by the Japanese invasion.
I feel like im having deja vu
Like we've been here before?
Also a gang near the Dakota River(I'm talking about rdr2)
Worst casus belli in history: hey, our ship just exploded before your seashore, so we declare war upon you.
Says 1898 while it reads 1899
The U.S figured out how to create an empire that’s more stable than what the Europeans had . An economics based empire instead of a land based empire . Get all the perks of the land based one and without the criticism. It could’ve kept expanding territory wise . But the Us is all about profit and it will choose the most profitable route
If it *had* managed to become a state, I wonder if that would of prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis, since the Soviets couldn’t bother us on our own territory 🤔
Edit: Nah, they probably woulda just put the missiles in the Bahamas or something :P
I don’t think it would have happened at all since it was Castro that edged on the Soviet’s to put the missiles in Cuba
Could’ve wished the United States annexed all of Mexico. If needed. Making Cuban annexation easier and statehood as well. I wouldn’t have care if the demographics became half Latino. Heck they could’ve expanded as further south as Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and the guyanas. And as far north as Canada, Alaska, and Greenland. And added the Philippines as well. The USA and Russia would be more similar in the sense of multiculturalism. But their ideologies would still differ and they must deter any opposing ideologies that threatens their rule of law.
No, I'm glad the USA mostly rejected imperialism. But Puerto Rico was a mistake, and needs to be ended now. And having all those military bases around the world
the us had to basically sink their own ship and blame Spain since declaring war to them would be seen very bad as Spain helped the us get independence
More then hundred soldiers were killed on that ship it was an accident most likely but it also may had been accident the spanished caused, but even if it wasn't and the USA dod not attack spain colonies , during world war 2 the Japanese woukd have invaded a Spanish held Philippines, and Cuba still be part of Spain and got independence and then Cuba fall to communism anyway only Castro would have had a stronger support from the Cubans who would have grown sick of Spanish imperialism then we get a Cuban missile crisis anyway.
You forgot to mention it was much further back then that like the Ostend Manifesto in 1854
Greenland?
Yes, they have tried to purchase it several times. And now some of the greatest petrol and minerals are known to be under Greenland's sovereignity, so perhaps they'll eventually purchase or take it by strength.
@@alejandrop.s.3942 with the world going to shit right now, if the global order falls apart. who realistically can stop us from taking land? which r close to their sphere of influence. greenland was of the western hemisphere using our time zone.
Missed opportunity
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara: *I'm about to end this whole country's career.*
Wdym the US enslaved and tortured cubans
Ah the beginning of upcoming Missile crisis 😂😂😂
Cuba would be better if it was a U.S. state
Hahahahaha, sure buddy, let’s see Cubans loose their free housing and education and healthcare. And default on their debt like the USA.
How
@@rabbidcrazy787 Because there was be no communism and no embargoes, so Cuba would be wealthier and happier.
Cuba could be better if It wasn't for the damn embargo
Cuba could be better if It wasn't for the damn embargo
Im Cuban born and raised , we want freedom , and be a State , why go to Hawaii when Cuba is closer , real estate will boom , it will benefit both sides
Some comments:
1) Spain didn't rule over Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico... Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico WERE Spain and all the individuals living there had political representation in the Spanish National Parliament and the same rights than the Spaniards from the Peninsula
2) USS Maine didn't explode, USS Maine WAS EXPLODED by the USAmericans to have an excuse to invade Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. Hitler performed the same trick to invade Poland in 1939
3) After the USAmerican invasion 1,5 M Filipinos (25% of the population at that time) were killed by the USAmericans (shouting "Kill everyone over ten!!") , Cuba was reduced to an economic colony, and Puerto Rico is still a colony of the USAmericans today...
I don’t think Filipinos ever had as many rights as you think they did
The last line is funny, 'The United States gave Cuba it's independence'. These transplanted Spaniards, didn't wanted to be part of the Spanish empire. Nor did they wanted to change their Overlord to the United States. The United States would have had a difficult military operation, trying to suppress a pushback from the new county of Cuba. Refer to my previous post, concerning French forces aiding the rebelling American states.
What? Do you realize the royalist and separatist factions were greatly divided? Claiming cubans as a whole didn’t want independence is as foolish as it can be, Cuba should have remained as part of Spain… and I can say this being Cuban myself
im second! Btw nice Geo vid! 🔥
Thank you! what should i post next?
Could you make why the Gov/President of North korea dint want his people free? (idk this is the only idea i got)
Oh yeah you can say second >:(
@@UncoveredGeo please make Cambodia geo Ive asking tons of times 😿😿
@@imcool2801depends on what you mean by “free”
Very very interesting
It would be better if Cuba was ruled by Spain not US!
The US never ruled Cuba?
Totally religión culture and idiom would be a lot easier
USA: ok I’m going to make it so you’re independent, you just have to follow these rules.
Cuba: *proceeds to become communist*
USA: 👁️👄👁️
The “rules”: you cant have blacks
You cant have natives
You must obey us always, and never turn to democracy, stay a military dictatorship!
No wonder cuba went communist
They became communist because of said rules
@@realdragao6367lol least schizo commie, most of Cuba is white so your “America always racist” logic doesn’t work
In the late 40's , National Geographic magazine ran a report on the island titled , " Cuba , the US's sugar bowl " , which simbolized the view and status held by Washington D.C. in regard to that country : a mere one - product commodity supplier.
the country wanted to annex it and it decided to block itself from annexing it
That's not the only time we tried to take Cuba.
Please Take Jamaica
Why?
@@alejandrabarron3977 It would benefit us economically and militarily
Jamaica would also have more equality if that happened :)
@RomanII499 This country is too closed-minded and doesn't believe in federalism
The Medicaid costs would have been impossible.😂😂😂
USA is not that Noble to bring peace to world, it always comes with profit
How
@@rabbidcrazy787 it's in Vidio, isn't that Obvious?
Depiction that USA is World Hero is Propaganda in Hollywood
USA perhaps the second biggest Invader in the World, below or Above UK. Sure they help us defeating Nazi but because UK and France make US dollar the world Currency. USA always do things for themself and yet depicting themself as a Hero, and they always make their rival Country like Russia or any other country that agains them look bad
@@rabbidcrazy787search about the doctrine Monroe and the origins of the banana company chiquita
@@daviderobles8039 I heard something like that before. Isn't that what caused Hawaii to be annexed? But with Dole instead of Chiquita?
Cuba SHOULD be a state.
They blame the maine on spain to get cuba😂
Cuba philiphines Guam and Puerto rico
@@Lytro458jokes on them, they forgot Marianas islands which Spain sold to Germany the following year.
The name of the country is USA, United States of America. The name of the country is NOT America.
In English, “America” refers to the United States of America, but referring to “America” as either that or the American supercontinent is a feature of languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Different languages have different meanings of words that may look identical.
Your culture’s understanding of geography is not the only one.
I see English isn't your first language. America is used to refer to the USA in English. Hence their demonym "Americans."
@@ravensfan777 that's a mistake and has nothing to do with language. I bet you don't even know the origin of the word "America".
For your information, America (the continent)is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.
And for your information, Columbus didn't even sent foot in North America where the united States is located!
@@ferdieshoes2310 No, it has everything to do with language. WonderWhy did a video on this same topic and I have yet to hear one English speaker refer to the entire supercontinent as “America” in isolation. I have heard “the Americas” and “the American supercontinent” before, but not simply plain “America” in isolation.
Me being Cuban, reading foreigners giving their opinion about my country and defending the communist regime as if they had any idea 🤡🍿
What else. They are pigs sitting in there capitalist country saying that communism is good.
Cuba should reunite with Spain as an autonomous region
😨
Yea
Better than being under am*rica
Based comment. Let's make the Hispanidad great again.
Basado
Cuba should have stayed a part of Spain. Both would have been better off.
Iraq I’m a joke to you?
When has the US ever cared about the places they invade?
Why Iraq? They only did what they did to stop Saddam Hussein. Too bad it executed poorly.
Average kid hating the US for no reason just because to look cool. Bro probably thinks he's a sigma by being a communist nazi.
@@enterchannelname5953for some years Iraq became a USA state
@@rabbidcrazy787and they displaced millions of iraqis good job
US in the 2000s: Freedom for all men in the earth
US in 1860 and 1900s: Hey you guys all of you become my slaves, so dont try to resist
If USSR win d coldwar Florida belongs to Cuba
No. Not really. Tell me you don’t know geography without telling me you don’t know geography.
@@anonymoususer8895 yup and mehico leftist win election and get back newmehico plus texas. Ussr get back alaska plus hawaii.
Urrraaa
real
@@_ok__ yeah before you wakeup
@@anonymoususer8895He is not wrong, Cuba and florida where under the "Capitania general de Cuba" a province of the Virroyalty of New Spain (Spanish Mexico).
Greenland is owned by Denmark.
Please do canbodia geo 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Puerto Rico is trying to become a state today
Never let a Spanish bot tell you Spain granted Cuban independence, America granted Cuban independence. No one else had the power to do so but America.
You call it independence, I call it balcanization of the Hispanidad.
@@alejandrop.s.3942 lol
Castro gave Cuba independence. The US just turned it from a Spanish colony to an American one.
First of all, America itsnt country but a continent, gringoland is better, gringoland didnt want the independence of Cuba, it only wanted one more colony like Puerto Rico or the Philippines, and within the Anglo-Saxon culture of gringoland, the only thing that exists is the exposure of resources, Cuba achieved independence by itself.
@@4ev3rY America isn't a Continent, it's a Super-Continent. Nice try though. It's also the short 1 word name for The USA. So, yeah. Find a bridge & learn uour history, because to reasons that shock even me; no, American Leadership did NOT want to annex Cuba. Because it's pretty obvious we would have had we wanted to. We wanteda world power our of The American Super-Continent, Monroe Doctrine.
While backbenchers in American Congress did argue for Cuban annexation, The Presidential figures & leaders in Gov't & Military did not want Cuban annexation.
Teddy Roosevelt specifically fighting NOT to annex Cuba i imagine won't even compute with you but that's the truth.
Cuba would've stayed a Spanish Colony without American-Spanish War. We didn't invade Cuba, we invaded Spain. Then we granted Cuban independence while annexing every other colony.
We should have kept Greenland.
uhm greenland is denmark
Not for long.
@@rabbidcrazy787 they arent becoming independent nor part of the American union any time soon.
@@isfishie You're unaware of the independence protests, are you? Also, why would they wanna join the US? They want independence.
@@isfishie The reason why he said Greenland Almost became a US State because the US tried Buying Greenland 4 times from Denmark but The Danish goverment declined. The Recent one was in 2017 when trump Tried buying greenland.
@@rabbidcrazy787 you’re unawhere that they relly on denmark
Quick comment because a lot of these comments are making me a little upset especially coming from people who have little to no knowledge or experience from/about cuba. Cuba is a dictatorship and cuba is very communisy, cuba is not perfect cuba is not pretty anymore, theres no food no medicine no money nothing. buildings are crumbling, the people are dying and killing eachother from the desperation that they are feeling. we have been protesting for a few days recently and have been actively crying out for help for years but it falls on deaf ears because unless you are tuned into that news and those specific news outlets, our news doesnt get shared. and if it does get shared its false news put out by the cuban govt to avert attention. but coming from first gen cuban here, WE NEED HELP! Cuba has been suffering for 65 years! I just want my families island to be beautiful and free again😢 I wanna be able to visit with joy and feel proud of my country just like my puerto rican dominican colombian friends feel proud of their country. But all i feel is shame and impotence😕 i hope this reaches the right crowd
Cuba should’ve remained a territory
Nah it should had been the 51 state and not Washington DC
Nah it would cause a lot of unrest due to Latin nationalists and it would probably have atleast an big uprising for a bit
I still prefer it being independence just without the communism and the dictatorship. This comes from an offspring of Cubans.
Cope more neo colonialist, our mestizo people arent gonna allow the amerikkkans to opress and colonize us like puerto rico.
Cuba IS a state, a recognized country, but never wanted to be a part of the USofA.
Almost..... but u.s.a. no pudo robarse this isle.
Jajaja.
Exactamente!! EXACTLY!!
Finalmente, a pesar de su gran tamaño y de su poderío militar, no pudo robarse ni Cuba ni Filipinas, por motivos diferentes pero no pudieron. La historia es así de caprichosa!!
Sólo pudieron quedarse con la pequeña isla de Puerto Rico, pero los boricuas siguen prefiriendo masivamente el idioma español, y solo quieren ser estado de EEUU por las ventajas económicas y de ciudadania que ello conlleva. Pero son cultural y lingüísticamente hispanos y eso no lo cambiará nunca nada, ni siquiera una estatalidad futura, si llega.
Saludos desde Ibiza, España🇪🇸
Literal, ya tienen puerto rico y se quieren afanar está?
Also the Dominican Republic was to become a state.
so glad that america didnt steal these beautiful countries that dont belong to them. people should celebrate this.
Oh so winning a war is stealing land now, ok. Why don't you give all your lands to the Native Americans back and leave the Americas as an uncivilized and untouched continent.
My parents were born in Cuba and suffered through the communism and oppression there, and although I would prefer an independent Cuba that isn't communist, I would still rather the USA own Cuba than the current government.
@@WarLegend50nosé amigo, yo prefiero que no les hagan genocidio étnico, no erradiquen mí lenguaje y que no seas un ciudadano de 2da clase
@OjalaTeFusilen Disculpame por mi Español terrible como no es mi lengua primaria.
No se quien te dijo que si los Estados Unidos tienian Cuba eyos funeran a matar y quitar la idioma y cultura.
Yo preferio que Cuba sea independuebte y una Republica constitutional con democracia como los Estados Unidos.
Tanbien algo que no entidenes es que las personas viviendo en Cuba son cuduadanos de 3 clase. Las personas en Cuba viven en pobreza bajo el communismo.
@@WarLegend50Over 4/5 people in Cuba support their socialist government. The USA should just remove their sanctions to help them, but every day they choose not to
If cuba would have been a state it would be going so good now
No
@@guto11exacto le iría peor que a PR
The only thing the US gave to Cuba was an embargo. Cuba got it’s independence in 1959.
Nice try, Castro.
@@notoriousfly9260 If you want you can prove me wrong.
Wrong Cuba got independence from Spain in 1898 from the treaty of Paris
@@familyandfriends3519 And was occupied by the USA until 1959.
@@notoriousfly9260but you can't deny the embargo right gringo?
My comment (on several Facebook groups I have forwarded this to (along with a link to the video)
Some of the things to avoid when learning European Portuguese.
Plus some things to do, including some links to some of the things to do. Don't worry about what other people think of your first efforts, just keep going, in regular, small, bitesize chunks, and you'll get there, would seem to be the top tip.
It would be interesting to hear what other people think.
Cuba should be American, confirmed.
You had your shot 1898-1959, you failed and made Cubans lives worse.
In your dreams gringo
@@daviderobles8039 What does the last word in your sentence mean?
@@-petrichor-7263 gringo means "green" which was the uniform of US soldiers then "go home" and last reduce it forming"gringo.
Green go home
@@daviderobles8039 Hey! You learn somthing new everyday! Thanks for telling me.
Did anyone realized that Greenland is apart of Denmark 😀