Originally Posted by dutchmasterflex
The Phillippines never directly went to war with the United States.. but they did fight try to fight them off.
The Spanish-American war was the US vs. Spanish rule over the Philippines.
The reason the PI is a "US testicle licker" is because the US took over the Philippines and left them high and dry.. the PI has no one else to ask favors from.
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Strange as I'm starting to think that this was taught in the west but not in our very own country.
IIRC, what we were told was that the USA bought the Philippines for an amount close to about $200,000 (which was supposed to be huge during that time). I really don't recall any Phil-American wars though. Maybe a few small rebellions and uprisings here and there, but definitely not a war on a national scale.
I mean, I don't think the Philippine Gov't ever went to war with anyone. They slept with the Spaniards, then when ownership went to the USA, they did the same (hence much of the land here belonging to US companies), then when Japan invaded the Philippines and the USA vowed to "be back", the Philippine Gov't made deals with the Japanese, and then finally, when the USA came back and shoo-ed the Japanese away, the Philippine Gov't started kissing their asses again.
Cocksuckers. Seriously.