How America Stole Hawaii - July 7, 1898

On July 7, 1898, the United States annexed Hawai'i using a legal workaround the Constitution's framers never intended, and a documented majority of Native Hawaiians had already said no. This episode holds together the strategic logic, the economic motives, and the organized resistance, and draws a direct line to how nations justify control over strategic waterways today, from Pearl Harbor to the Strait of Hormuz.