What could Spain have done to win the Spanish-American War?

What could Spain have done to win the Spanish-American War?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Been america

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    travel back in time and not abuse its colonies.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >travel back in time and not abuse its colonies.

      >Be white.

      They could have not started it in the first place

      >They could have not started it in the first place

      not sink the Maine

      >not sink the Maine

      Not trade all their Aztec gold for expensive European commodities.

      >Not trade all their Aztec gold for expensive European commodities.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You can whine all you want but the fact is Euro colonies were a bad idea and you guys just made your future big brother after shitting yourselves. Everyone wants to brag about the big global colonies but no one likes to talk about how those same actions led to the world wars and Europes sorry state today. You coulda stayed in your lane but you had to be special and now the new world is the ruler of the world.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          euro colonies weren't a bad idea, merely shortsighted, and a little poorly executed.
          desu, world wars are an accomplishment of power projection. the sino-japanese war didn't enter the european theater.
          frankly the sorry state is because the euros were not greedy enough with the colonies - they forgot to colonize the rest of europe. if anyone - Philip, Louis XIV, Louis XVI or Napolean - actually successfully up-ended the "balance of power," then they'd probably still rule the world today.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >they forgot to colonize the rest of europe. if anyone - Philip, Louis XIV, Louis XVI or Napolean - actually successfully up-ended the "balance of power," then they'd probably still rule the world today.
            what does this mean? My knowledge of European history post 1800 is a little hazy

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              just some french self-fellacio, nevermind it

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              the reason ww1 and ww2 devastated europe was because they were too evenly matched. french depopulation after ww1 was a direct result of human waves trying to break stalemated trench warfare. compare to ww2, when the western front of suffered a lot less than the eastern front because paris fell so quickly.

              the european balance of power doctrine was shared by all great powers after the napoleanic wars, lookup "congress of europe." napolean couldn't conquer europe based on strength alone, and nobody afterwards had the will to fight. europe's conflicts remained unresolved, but colonies were softer military targets.

              even after ww1, the treaty of versailles reaffirmed almost all terra antebellum except the ottomans and austria-hungary. prussia remained an unresolved problem.

              after ww2, the anglos did not continue the war into russia like patton desired, and as you can see, that conflict remains unresolved through today.

              TLDR there were many occasions when one country has a huge tech edge that theoretically would allow them to conquer the world (including europe with no take backs), but they either frick it up trying, or pussy out. conquering weak africa instead of strong europe is an example of pussying out.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                > 99 years of relative european peace is... Le bad actually!
                Euros realised after 15 years of Napoleons moronation that world conquest aint all that when you can just have fun industrialising/colonizing.
                It was not pussying out, it was an incredible wisdom amongst euros, wisdom gained by years of bloodshed, that allowed for the stability at home to become so dominant in the rest of the world. It is no coincedence that when they finally start duking it out again in the world wars they instantly lose much of that dominace...
                >Many occasions where one country could have won it all
                Like fricking when? post one great power that could have beaten the others, and held on to those gains... Its fricking impossible, just ask france, germany or the soviets

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Be white.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    send a terminator back to prevent the birth of Teddy Roosevelt.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Need at least 3 T-800s for that

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They could have not started it in the first place

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They didn't start it, William Randolph Hearst did.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Send the España class ships through the Magellan Strait and avoid Suez like the plague.

    Mutts were outgunned at land at sea but the Spanish government fricked it up (as is tradition) leaving whole garrisons alone just for the sake of being moronic, and sending the fleet to fricking nowhere.

    If anything saying that mutts won the war just because of being mutts isn't exactly wrong: the timing between Cuba and the Philipines was perfect and left the Spanish fleet (with some amazing pre dreadnoughts) idling in bumfrick nowhere

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Edit: the España class was built like almost a decade after the war, I was thinking about the Pelayo and the Carlos V

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    "The History of the Gatling Gun Detachment" by Lt John H Parker is available in the public domain, on gutenberg.org and similar sites. Parker took part in the Spanish American War himself. It is a really interesting and also entertaining book.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      spoonfeed link pls

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Be God fearing red blooded America
    Manning Hotchkiss Gun
    Sweeping Spanish deck clear
    Manage to keep boner in trousers

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Brrrrrtttttt before brrrrrrrtttttt wy00rppas cool

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    not sink the Maine

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not trade all their Aztec gold for expensive European commodities.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's actually the opposite. By hoarding their gold (Spain placed laws forbidding the exporting of gold) Spain artificially depressed its economy massively increasing local inflation and slowing their own economic growth, The best course of action would have been to export the gold that they didn't natively need for minting or goldsmithing for goods and use those goods to further build up the domestic industry of their nation. Money is a spook, what matters is goods, and goods stop having value when you have too much of them. If someone offered you three new cars you would probably accept it, if you don't want them you could just sell them off, but if everyone had as many cars as they wanted of the quality they wanted those extra cars are worthless. Gold plate is no different, at best excess gold sits in a warehouse waiting for the government to run out of money so it can be used to purchase goods abroad when if you immediately spent that gold you could frontload on its value.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >inca silver not mexican gold
      >most of it went to fund wars with the hapsburgs and ottomans
      >the rest went to china
      >the artificial depression was in response to real inflation of the course of over a hundred years
      yes, in hindsight they should have founded the "castille & aragon east india company" but if they won the war, then they would have still possesed VOC anyway.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    1. Become Britain's ally and build a strong army with their help
    2. Take over Europe and wait a few years
    3. Invade America

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They lost at sea, so a better navy.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Sold us Cuba back in the 1850s.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Just imagine.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Delicious.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      pre WWII political cartoons were so SOVLful

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/K7xzmeD.jpg

        Sold us Cuba back in the 1850s.

        They were based.
        >list of preferred creditors

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          pre WWII political cartoons were so SOVLful

          https://i.imgur.com/K7xzmeD.jpg

          Sold us Cuba back in the 1850s.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          frick, gun grabbers were a thing back then

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            https://i.imgur.com/ES6ESty.jpg

            Yeah, but you'll notice that the police are also a target.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Are you shocked? That time of American history was beyond full of moral shitflinging.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              that's an english cartoon, who we now know to posess no freedom

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Anglomaniac dudes

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They did win. We have Puerto Rico, dirty ass Spanish bastards take it back.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Even though the Maine likely blew up from her own coal dust and magazines. The Spanish could have just sacrificed a couple cuban officers and some treasure to appease the Americans.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      there was no explosion dipshit. the newpapers comissioned an illustration by an artist who wasn't even there, and he drew fake smoke and fire.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The Maine did explode you vatnik.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not blown up our ships and start the war

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    gassed more israelites

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing. It's literally impossible to beat America in a war. We have Providence on our side and are naturally superior by the grace of God, which is why America has never lost a war.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    In the long term Spain won. America started a war to get the dregs of the last bastions of Spanish colonies

    >Philippines (LEL)
    >Guam (KEK)
    >Puerto Rico (JUST)
    >Cuba (the only thing they did right was let them go immediately)

    If America started the war a century earlier they would have acquired South America and Mexico couldn't even beat Texans.

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