I think to me it means if you lie or stab your friend in the back in the end or sometime soon you something bad will happen. He uses the wired famish which kind of means starve but I think what he means was you'll be in immense pain later on.
Meaning you should be thankful for you friends and not be an a-hole.
Making a thing or person American.
It was a chain reaction. Long story short, the countries were pulled into the war because of agreements they had with their allies. This treaty is what caused the countries to enter WWI, to protect and defend their allied countries who were already in the war.
President Theodore Roosevelt thought that the sinking of Maine was done by the Spanish fleet in 1898 February 15th.
He thought that if US doesnt fight back, they are no better than cowards.
He then ordered George Dewey to attack the Spanish.
But later realizing the Maine was sunk by a mine.
Basically this war is a revenge done by the Americans for their pride and the battleship Maine