That's exactly what the Dutch did with Surinam for instance (And with Indonesia, which was in many ways far, far worse and which caused massive bloodshed). They

That's exactly what the Dutch did with Surinam for instance (And with Indonesia, which was in many ways far, far worse and which caused massive bloodshed). They pretty much left the place in shambles with no credible path to stability. I think to some degree it was petty revenge for the loss of the colony, as in 'if you think you can do without us then we'll make that as hard as possible for you'. They could have done a much more graceful handover, instead they abandoned their responsibilities overnight and pretended that any fall-out was the locals' problem. Interestingly, at the time when this happened there was due to the fact that Surinam people were considered to be citizens a massive influx of Surinam people to NL, the ones that saw the writing on the wall and realized that there would be a less-than-optimal situation post dutch pull-out. This then - predictably - led to exactly the same levels of xenophobia about the Surinam people coming to NL. The kind of stuff dutch people at the time were saying about them does not bear repeating here, suffice to say it was pretty horrible. Now, a good 40 years later they've integrated into Dutch society, and you don't hear anybody anymore about how they were going to cause the end of our 'way of life' That honor simply shifts from one group to the next. The only ones so far that seem to escape such scorn are the Ukrainians, but I suspect if their numbers would rise further that that would happen just the same, already Wilders has been trying out that fiddle to see how well it plays. But he's playing with fire on that subject and he knows it, we have not forgotten his response to the Russian downing of MH-17.