Charles Edward Magoon

So you have the Spanish state and the Spanish troops and the, the, uh, the, the homegrown insurgency trying to fight for independence, wearing each other out for three decades.

Finally, when the US judges that the moment's right, they swoop in, and then they just take it over themselves.

Yeah.

After, after the Spanish-American War, the US takes the Philippines, and it takes Guam, it takes, uh, Puerto Rico, and makes them into of... more or less official colonies.