USA and NATO responsible for Ukraine war, German and French public say in poll (youtube.com)

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Remember the Maine!

(this goes back waaaaaaaay before ww2)

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Didn't we blame the Maine on Spain

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yes, the following line is 'to hell with Spain' I believe, it was used as a cassus belli to start the Spanish-American war in which y'all took over Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and practically took over Cuba, although Cuba was technically made independent.

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