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maybe we do something else bad now, but we no longer do the particular thing known as colonialism
by yters 6y ago
maybe we do something else bad now, but we no longer do the particular thing known as colonialism
- free_rms 6y agoAfghanistan, Iraq? And that's before we get into proxy wars.
- yenwodyah 6y agoNeither of those countries are being colonized, by any definition of the word.
- NegativeLatency 6y agohttps://www.wordnik.com/words/colonized https://www.wordnik.com/words/colonized > adjective politically ruled by citizens of another country. Seems to fit this definition
- kube-system 6y ago16 years ago, one of those countries met that definition for a period of 14 months.
- ceejayoz 6y agoIf the Ba'ath Party and Taliban had taken back control after those 14 months in each respective country, are you under the impression the US would've gone "welp, we tried!" and left? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Ba%27athification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Ba%27athification
- bobbyz 6y agoIf puppet governments don't count as colonialism, then the British were not very colonial and the Japanese did not colonize Manchuria.
- sangnoir 6y agoAre Guam and Puerto Rico not de facto colonies?