D.B.W.I. The Maine explodes in Havana

I remember a visit to museum in Mobile Alabama. I saw an exhibit on the U.S:S Maine, a navy battleship that exploded in that city´s harbor in 1898. The exhibit included recovered items from the wreckage that included souvenirs from a prior stop over in Havana Cuba. What would have happened if that explosion and massive loss of American lives had taken place in that then Spanish port at time that Spain was fighting Cuban rebels and winning much negative publicity in the states. Would the American public have blamed Spain? How would that have hurt the already tense state of U.S. Spanish relations.?
 
Yeah, but yellow journalism at the time was high. Someone would have asccused them. I doubt the government would respond, but public annoyance.
 

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I don't see how America could be so pigheaded to go to war over a Battleships malfunction. Well in the case they do Spain won't sell the Philippines to Germany, the United States might take it. Cuba might have not won it's own independence and Hell it might also become a colony of the United States along with Puerto Rico which we know was bought by the United States in 1905.
I think that Cuba will wind up with the worst end of the deal With a likely american occupation if a war happens.
 
The reason behind the US involvement in war over that incident was that the US was still a fairly young nation. They still had to prove themselves on the world stage with colonization and whatnot, of course we don't call it that.
 
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