Did Haiti achieve what his goal was?Toussaint would’ve had a sound battle strategy while operating in tandem with diplomatic state craft leveraging his opponents against each other to achieve a favorable political settlement.
Compare that to whatever the fukk Hamas is doing.
Yes and no. Was Haiti free from foreign rule? Yes. Was Haiti able to establish a functioning liberal government with peerage from one of the world powers to protect itself from France’s economic blockade that devastated the economy? No.
I don't fully agree with your posts here but I see where you are coming from
His fatal flaw was he wanted to be French and ended up dying in a French prison for that desire to be French.
No one is supporting Hamas. You lot keep bringing it up as if that's supposed to be the "gotcha" moment. fukk Hamas. A genocide against Palestinian people on top of the apartheid state since the Nakbah---remembrance day is today--- is what people are pissed over.
I’m asking people to think critically about the outcome of this conflict and what the realistic end goal is supposed to be.
I see what you mean but bruv that state assisted apartheid south africa with its nuclear program to do God knows what with especially when they engaged in war with Namibia. And they were adament supporters of south africa apartheid. I have no illusions that this will end badly. Not that one should give up but still
He was a good military leader but his betrayal of Toussaint, massacre of all whites on the island (destroying any possibility of trade relations with world powers) and inability to establish any semblance of governance before being killed pretty much doomed Haiti from the start.
You can be pissed but what’s the plan? Norman Finklestine told y’all(I don’t necessarily mean you) to cut that flag burning death to America and Israel chanting shyt out as it’s not playing positively to the liberals. You gotta eliminate these extremists who have no plans or strategy besides undirected rage out of you want to win.
that's cool and all, but after Adams we continued with slavery until a civil war.
Why would he push for the murder of all whites in Haiti? Not saying its right, but understandable.
You keep saying that, when no one is saying we side with Hamas or support what they did on October 7. The real question is why is the US supporting genocide against Palestinian people after supporting over a half-century apartheid.
Again, you keep saying this, but Israel and US are on record now of not supporting a two-state solution. The US has constantly voted against it in the UN, and the nutjobs leading Israel obviously don't want that.
So what? Again intelligence not emotions. Half of America was free and anti slavery. Toussaint was appealing to them. Also the bougiouse are the cornerstone of any functioning society. They are educated, politically connected and less prone to extremist and reactionary actions. Toussaint was educated and knew how to talk to white people of that era.
France wouldn’t be able to tell them “run there shyt” if they had 5,000 French civilians in the island and trade alliances with Britain who were literally going to free all there slaves 4 years later.
The U.S. supports Israel because it’s a strategic ally in the region same reason the U.S. supported Azerbaijan ethnic cleansing of Armenians(that conveniently nobody cared about despite it being 10 times worse than Palestine) because Azerbaijan opposes Iran.
It’s easy for the U.S. and Israel to vote against a two state solution when Hamas is the governing body of a major part of that two state solution isn’t it? That said I give it 10-20 years. It’s inevitable. Who is going to oppose a two state solution when Biden and his era kick the bucket?
“Death to Israel, from the river to the sea, glory to our martyrs”Lmaooo, what I look like telling kids to stay in school when this is what passes for a Bachelors in History?
and that half wasn't willing to do anything about it until the other half declared war.
We live in America. I don't think that's true at all. In fact the west, innit.
Didn't agree with it, just understood it.
And this is why the US always finds itself in bad situations and some how have to support the baddies.
Hamas only became the governing body of Gaza in 2006, with Netanyahoo backing. There were many more years before that and Hamas isn't the governing body of all of Palestine.
