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> even though it was legally bought from Egypt 100+ years ago One might ask - particularly in a colonial history case - if that "legal purchase" was made under
by mschuster91 2y ago
> even though it was legally bought from Egypt 100+ years ago
One might ask - particularly in a colonial history case - if that "legal purchase" was made under fair conditions and not by exerting undue pressure, as it often happened.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 2y agoCultivating unfair conditions and exerting pressure is just good negotiation. The modern Egyptian government doesn't actually want mummies back, they just want to get paid again. They are going to use various means at their disposal to get paid once more. Which is "fair" in the All's fair in love and war sense. Edit: Egypt just wants to pivot a subscription model: https://tutankhamunexpo.com https://tutankhamunexpo.com
- mschuster91 2y ago> Cultivating unfair conditions and exerting pressure is just good negotiation. I heavily disagree. Bullying may work in a short term but in the mid to long term it can have disastrous consequences - we're seeing this play out right now with the US government and all its major allies looking for a way out and divesting from the US. Decades worth of "soft power" building effort and hundreds of thousands of lives lost in various wars (WW2 alone >400k!), for nothing, all gone in the space of a few months.