Yeah but this kind of corruption was unheard of. Even in the post Civil War era that was super corrupt they wouldn’t take open bribes from foreign leaders like this certainly not before the Civil War either. Obviously from the Spanish-American war on we have had the Empire thing going as Mark Twain predicted all this shit would happen.
I mean, you know the US actively helped to overthrow democratically elected governments to aid US businesses already back then, right?
Yeah but this kind of corruption was unheard of. Even in the post Civil War era that was super corrupt they wouldn’t take open bribes from foreign leaders like this certainly not before the Civil War either. Obviously from the Spanish-American war on we have had the Empire thing going as Mark Twain predicted all this shit would happen.