Would Filipinos have won the Philippine-American had they gained foreign support?

may i recommend:

Why the United States Won the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 by Glenn A. May

search mo sa google scholar.. it's just one perspective yes but..

also:

Friend or Foe? Intercultural Diplomacy between Momoyama Japan and the Spanish Philippines in the 1590s by Birgit Tremml-Werner

this is basically hundreds of years before the relevant time period pero i see this as a good discussion of the starting point of pinoy-jap relations as the age of colonialism progressed

also, the west was just so freakin advanced and overpowered africans and asians really did not stand a chance against them... kahit nga yung tatlong survivor ng era na yan - korea, japan, thailand - they didnt come out entirely unscathed.. if it was just spain.. maybe we can do it; maybe we can do what the south americans under bolivar did...

then again maybe we'll get ganked on.. "we cant have some 'free nation' dancing about in a place where we put everyone else in chain and balls" .. basically i think we'll get ganked on and torn between them.. remember the domino effect and containment doctrine? when they tried to chain france coz they feared the spread of republicanism? or when they tried to cage china because "hurhur we cant have these other asians going red" .. that'd happen to us if we managed to beat spain \the dead last of the overseas colonial powers])

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