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Latvia PM: Let EU countries with no colonial past lead diplomacy with BRICS+ (www.politico.eu)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1898633

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (13 children)

I'd imagine states without colonial pasts weren't more moral, they just lacked the resources and/or opportunities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

So, these days states forgo colonies only because they lack the resources? Does this apply to e. g. slavery as well? I don't like this line of thought.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mostly because all land is claimed by some country or another, and the current occupants could raise enough of an international stink that people come to their defense.

One might argue that what Russia is doing in Ukraine and Georgia is the modern equivalent of colonialism.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And China's belt-and-road initiative is basically modern day colonialism as well. And the 9-dash line.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, all international development is colonialism. 🤡

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

wasps always project

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