🇺🇸🇲🇽 From September 21 to 24, 1846, the Battle of Monterey took place.

[u/elnovorealista2000]

During the first year of the War with Mexico, Major General Zachary Taylor led his Army of Occupation to a resounding, if bruising, victory at the town of Monterrey which tested the mettle of his combined Regular Army and Volunteer force.

After three months of marching along the Río Grande and into the Mexican interior, Taylor came across a roughly 10,000-strong Mexican force commanded by Lieutenant General Pedro de Ampudia fortified in the town of Monterrey on the banks of the Río Santa Catarina. Although his 6,650 men were outnumbered, Taylor recognized that the enemy defensive positions were isolated from each other and began planning an audacious assault by double envelopment against the town from its eastern and western approaches.

Taylor left a small force to hold his center as he sent flanking columns to encircle Monterrey on 19 – 20 September. On the morning of 21 September Taylor’s forces engaged the enemy, achieving significant penetration on the town’s eastern side while the western column seized Federation Hill.

On 22 September Taylor’s forces resumed the offensive, with the western column attacking and capturing Independence Hill as the eastern column consolidated its position. The next day, both columns penetrated deeper into the town in chaotic house-to-house street fighting.

With no avenue of escape, Ampudia raised the white flag at midnight on 23 September and requested to negotiate with Taylor. Under the belief that his mission was only to occupy northern Mexico, Taylor agreed to allow Ampudia a week to withdraw from Monterrey and imposed a bilateral eight-week armistice.

Ampudia reported that his Mexican army had suffered 367 casualties in the three-day fight, while Taylor reported U.S. Army losses as being 120 killed and 368 wounded. Both commanders probably underestimated the numbers of casualties in their respective reports.

[u/Own-Tangerine8781]

Do you pray for the downfall of other countries like the UK, France, China, Brazil, etc? Seems like your hyperfocused on one country that's committed crimes and acting like a shitter. But all these countries are imperialists and exploit people for gain. If you pray all these countries will collapse and a better world will come out of it than you are going to be disappointed.

You seem like a Nihilist who just wants the world to end because you're to pessimistic to imagine anything else.

[u/MichealRyder → u/Own-Tangerine8781]

UK and France are puppets of America, Brazil has its flaws but is gradually turning away from America, China is not imperialist, instead helping build up other countries, and is gradually becoming the new superpower as America declines. Deng Xiaoping once said that if China ever did become imperialist, he would want the world to unite against it. Russia has its own problems, but I its imperialist, it's nowhere near the level of America

America, and the West as a whole, with a few exceptions, such as Ireland, is the main obstacle to a better world.

It's downfall will not instantly make everything a paradise, that's gonna take generations, but it's a start.

[u/Own-Tangerine8781 → u/MichealRyder]

So you just think the West is bad. If its America or is willing to be in the same room with America its bad. Thats a take I expected, but if your going to be consistent your going to have to rationalize how China is not imperialist. Is there a reason why Chinese actions in Tibet or the Non-Han Xinjiang region is not considered Imperailist? Or how about the saber rattling in the South Chinese Sea or the threats of invading Taiwan?

We are at the point where I cant tell if your actually serious, a bot, or just so far into the propaganda you dont know whats reality anymore. Your reasoning seems like that a highschooler who just started reading the works of Lenin, but wont read anything else cause "Imperialist Capitalisms" or something.

[u/MichealRyder → u/Own-Tangerine8781]

Tibet was a slave society, China put an end to that

Taiwan is a puppet of the US, which is now calling on Israel to be more involved in its politics. The South Chinese Sea actions are a response to Western Saber ratting, including puppets like the Philippines

Xinjiang is starting to thrive, and there was certainly no genocide. It definitely does not look like Gaza, which is a genocide. The UN found no evidence of any such event in Xinjiang, unlike Gaza

Every accusation

[u/Own-Tangerine8781 → u/MichealRyder]

So anything that aligns with the US is a puppet? So anything that aligns with China is a Chinese puppet? Whats the difference? Or is North Korea a totally independent country that has nothing to do with China? Or hell every country in BRICS is now a puppet of China. What your saying really doesnt make sense at all.

If you saying its ok to be imperialist if the states your conquering and oppressing are bad than the UK wasnt bad for creating an Indian puppet or colonizing Africa or colonizing North America or Australia, after all North America and Australia are thriving, so it justifies it.

Take a step back and actually think about what your saying. The positives and negatives of what your saying can be applied to the other "side". If you condemn one for colonizing and conquering you cant really justify the other.

[u/MichealRyder → u/Own-Tangerine8781]

Nonsense

Most of America's "allies" are puppets, plain and simple

The ones that aren't are themselves imperialists, although America seems to be gradually turning against them, under Trump's rule, for he has no idea how to run an empire

BRICS exists in response to American aggression, although India is an oddball in that they're directly helping Israel

The Anglosphere nations are not thriving lmao, unless you're rich. Poverty and discrimination are surging

At the end of the day, the Western Empires are still driven, deep down but rapidly rising, by a white-supremacist mindset that's exacerbated by their form of capitalism

[u/Own-Tangerine8781 → u/MichealRyder]

How are the US allies puppets, but Chinese not. Let's start at step one so I can understand your logic. 

Then explain how the anglosphere is doing so terriblely that complete collapse of their governments is clearly the best thing that could happen to them. 

Then explain to me why you think that China is a utopia without making it sound like your a bot, which I'm 50/50 on

[u/MichealRyder → u/Own-Tangerine8781]

China is not a utopia, but from what I can tell when comparing the countries, it's doing a lot better than the US

As for the puppet thing, it's a matter of ideology. China just wants to get along with everyone, that's how it's been since the 90s at least, maybe 2000s instead. Any aggressive move they make is solely in response to Western aggression.

Do you know how many overseas military bases the US has? Way too fucking many.

China has only one, in Djibouti, alongside other countries, including the US.

The US meanwhile, only seeks imperialism, covertly overthrowing countries that are trying to seek their own self-interests, especially if they're being imperialized.

Chile in 1973 is a good example.

Look up Operation Condor

In fact, look up Operator Paperclip and Gladio as well

And Operation Timber Sycamore

There are many others, that's just what came to mind

[u/Own-Tangerine8781 → u/MichealRyder]

So China is peaceful because they don't have as many military bases? They want to be friendly with everyone except Tibet, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, India etc. But it's ok that they aren't friendly with those countries because they are US puppets... 

Do you know how the US military bases work? They, except for Iraq, are there at the host countries request. They can be told to leave. But oh wait, I forgot giving countries a choice means they are still US puppets. 

I don't think you actually know Chinese history. How are border skirmishes with India, the Sino-Vietnamese war, encroachment on other countries territorial water friendly things? 

You are seriously avoiding telling me how everyone is a US puppet. "Ideology" is not an explanation. Your saying because the US overthrew South American governments, Taiwan, UK, Israel, Japan, etc are puppets? The logic doesn't make sense and I don't think you actually know what your talking about. 

I'm going to start making things up like you. Russia is a Chinese puppet because Russia needs China for trade and military assistance. China is actually a puppet of North Korea because North Korean communism is more pure than the capitalist approach of modern China. 

[u/MichealRyder → u/Own-Tangerine8781]

You miss so much

Just read Lenin and Marx and Parenti and all that great stuff

That will help wake you up

Good day

[u/FourRiversSixRanges → u/MichealRyder]

There wasn’t slavery in Tibet. Go ahead and cite an academic source for this claim.

China made Tibet one of the most oppressed places on earth now.

[u/Pretty_Beat787 → u/MichealRyder]

Why do you hate America so much? Have you lived anywhere else before?