Jun 12, 2019
The U.S. annexed the islands as a result of the Spanish–American War in 1898 to better fight the Spanish in the Philippines, which is a whole other can of international-sovereignty-violating-worms and is a political debate that continues to this day. There’s a serious case to be made that the U.S. violated a whole bunch of international laws during the annexation, meaning we may never have had the authority to do literally any of the things we did on the island. Hawaiian independence is a very real possibility and there are a lot of people fighting hard for it. #@kingdomhawaii #hawaii #paradise #nocups #nodrinks # https://www.instagram.com/p/BymB4wvHhip/?igshid=11z6f82h14ph8
