As disgusting as this is, is it really surprising when most of media is referring to a child rapist and sex trafficker as ‘disgraced financier’.

Not exactly cannibalism but mummia (powdered mummies) was popular in Europe from the 12th to 19th century.

As someone who has drove through Brampton at various points in the past four decades this is such a wild exaggeration it’s almost comical.

This article touches on core factors and discusses the elimination of regional variances in insurance premiums within Ontario: https://www.thestar.com/business/brampton-is-the-most-expensive-city-for-car-insurance-in-ontario-here-s-why/article_816b6b40-d767-596e-bdba-50e83c41af6d.html

Netanyahu, Putin and other great war criminals peace loving statesmen of the 21st century.

I don’t disagree entirely but I also don’t see it as binary (one or the other).

The impact of European colonialism and neocolonialism have present day ramifications via colonial legacy institutions and the so called international ruled based order which was designed to maintain Western hegemony.

Western/European intervention in Africa did not end with the colonial era (see: neocolonialism)

Several great powers have emerged from the Global South. China is one example. There will be more. I don’t support imperial actions by any state actor.

We can criticize the ongoing impact of exploitation during European colonial era while also criticizing present day imperial actions by China, Russia and the US today.

Never said anything about it being exclusive but the scale of modern European colonization is very clearly unprecendented in human history and its caused ongoing challenges in the Global South to the present day. Neocolonialism works to perpetuate the imbalances caused by colonialism. Democracy and rule of law in Europe have a global foundation. Highly recommend the book Dawn of Everything which dives deeper into how philosophies of the indigineous peoples in the Americas contributed to enlightenment thought. I’m not in support of a narrative of guilty peoples or special races. I have nothing against Europeans or their states, past or present. But we have to look at history honestly in order to move forward as a society. Brushing it under the rug, which has been the approach of many colonial powers (see Britain’s Operation Legacy), will bite back sooner or later.

Institutions carry the consequences of colonialism from the past into the present. It’s also important to recognize neocolonialism which acts to perpetuate the imbalances that the colonial era produced.

If you’re interested in learning more I’d recommend the works of Nobel laureate in economics Daron Acemoglu and the field of post colonial studies.

If we’re being literal, Elizabeth and then Charles haha.

Jokes aside, the impacts of European colonialism did not end with world war 2 and the resultant imbalance is intentionally perpetuated through neocolonialism.

Edmund Burke famously described societies and the institutions that sustain them as a "partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born.”

In other words, institutions link the past, the present and the future, carrying forward both progress (industrial development, individual rights for some) but also the manifestations of exclusionary frameworks (slavery, segregation and colonialism).

If you’re interested in learning more I’d recommend the works of Nobel laureate in economics Daron Acemoglu and the field of post colonial studies.

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An imperial power that remains a global hegimon giving back land that it sees as valuable… hmm…

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First path is align with great power #1.

Second path is align with great power #2.

Third path is non alignment / continuing to pursue multilateralism amongst middle powers.

He wisely never refers to the US or China directly in the speech.

He went on to imply non-white people are not capable of producing functional civilization (I assume by ignoring most of human history) and then went on a rant about Somalia.

An anti-colonial Europe. Never thought we’d see the day. Guess it’s different when it’s your soverign territory that’s the potential colony.

While we can agree Russia has been failing as their initial unsuccessful strategy was to take Kiev in one fell swoop, it’s fairly widely agreed upon among Western intelligence agencies that their current strategy is a grinding war of attrition. So we shouldnt perceive them going slow as a sign of weakness. It’s their strategy. Whether it’s a viable strategy time will tell but it’s clear they don’t care if they have to put hundreds of thousands in the meat grinder or if it takes a decade, as long as they eventually achieve their goal. Part of their calculus is that democracies are inherently not as good at long term planning as autocracies.

The ruling class in such countries are almost always hand selected to protect American interests in the region. They’re compensated under the table to sell out their countrymen.

I wouldn’t agree that it was at wall street’s expense. American companies went into China willingly and agreed to those terms, eager for potential cost savings in return. One of the most notorious examples is Zuckerberg going out of his way to learn Mandarin, looking for any advantage to get Meta into China. China has played its cards quite intelligently, utilizing the foundation of unchecked greed in American corporate practice to build itself to its current position while the US government either fell asleep at the wheel or erroneously assumed that China would eventually assume the role of US vassal, like South Korea or Japan, as it became prosperous.

I agree that unchecked capitalism creates circumstances where the strengths of the free market gets subverted by monopolization and regulatory capture.

‘Best position in the world’ for US corporate interests. The fact that the wealth accrued from that is not distributed equitbly in the US is more of an internal issue rather than one related to trade policy.

Neoliberalism is meant to work to work in favor of American companies. When you mention a laborer in SE Asia making a pittance in exchange for terrible working conditions and benefits, it is American companies that are saving on costs and those savings show up on their balance sheets.

The issue is that the average American sees none of that and at best gets lower prices. The rest goes into the pockets of a few.

This is a feature of unregulated capitalism in the age of globalisation. If a country tries to push back (generally through left leaning movements / revolutions), the US government steps in to protect US corporate interests by staging a coup and installing a puppet.

What they’re really saying is that colonialism is good for colonizers.

It’s very unlikely that other NATO members would take military action against a US campaign on Greenland. They would almost certainly sit there and watch and then try to approach the conflict diplomatically. Many of these countries have US military bases on their own soil.

How are we defining rest of the world here because China, India and Africa make up nearly 50% of the human population and things were really not great, especially for the first 40 to 50 years after WW2.