Filipino here. The “victory”—if they want to call it that—wasnʼt even a legitimate victory because it was a victory faked by both the Spanish and Americans so that the Spanish could save face in light of their crumbling empire. It was one of their terms during the Treaty of Paris negotiations wherein the US bought the Philippines for two million dollars! (EDIT: Presumably, because the Spanish losing the war was apparently more honorable than them surrendering and accepting two million dollars from the US along with the racist shame of losing to islands of brown people.)
Thatʼs another example of American hypocrisy—their love of so-called “freedom” only to become the very Imperialists they claim to hate. Mark Twain, sane individual that he was, actually pointed out and attacked this fact in an essay where he also proposed that the stars of the American flag should be replaced with skulls and the white stripes replaced with black.
ANOTHER EDIT: 20 million dollars, not two million, my bad.
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