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O…k… All of this because I asked what your point was…

So you didn’t have a point, got it.

It’s seems incredibly unlikely to me that Ukraine will cease to exist as a country, even without American support I can’t see it being annexed entirely.

It will, however, probably be forced to make some fairly brutal concessions to Russia, including territorial ones.

My intention is to determine what your point is

What is your point?

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You, my friend, are defending colonialism and I am opposing your view that colonialism is okay

Calling it “imperialism” is just as bullshit as calling it “colonialism” and for the same reason.

Ok. That wasn’t the only text there.

When he dies in the not too distant future, he’s either going to be completely rehabilitated, or he’s going to be painted as the only bad Republican.

Here

Pleas explain how conquest of Tibet and settlement with Chinese, invasion of Vietnam, and the treatment of Uyghurs is not imperialism.

Because the definition of colonialism is not “something I disagree with that an enemy of America did”. Are you going to try to argue that the invasion of the confederacy was colonialism? Are you going to argue that D-Day was colonialism? Are you going to argue that the treatment of Japanese American’s in WW2 was colonialist? How about you do it? Why is you being a colonialism apologist not colonialism? Why is me stubbing my toe not colonialism? Why is any adversary to West doing anything ever not colonialism?

HIstorically, China is the oldest empire that’s still around on the planet.

Lol. “China was an empire five thousand years ago, so anything it does now is colonialism.” Oh well I guess anything Egypt does is colonialism, anything Turkey does is colonialism, anything Peru does is colonialism.

You’re literally incoherent now.

You’re right, my apologies.

I stand by the rest of what I said though, you’re still trying to make a pretty major false equivalence

What are you even talking about? I never said anything like that.

Yes, you did. You’re whole point has been that actually bombing and invading people is no different than not doing that; it’s all “colonialism.”

It’s an example that’s relevant to the region and China.

Yeah, and you had to go back half a century to find one, and it still wasn’t close to what the US did to Vietnam. It also wasn’t colonialism, for that matter.

Haha, everyone is a fascist now?

No, just colonialism defending ultranationalist white chauvinists like you.

Yeah, the French colonies, such as French Guyana, are not okay

Great, conversation over, not reading the rest of your comment now that you’ve admitted your previous one was spurious.

Oh, you’re literally reduced to “no u!” now?

Well I wouldn’t expect a colonialism apologist to be honest. Oh wait, is me calling you dishonest also colonialism? Is it colonialism when I stub my toe too?

You’re a ghoul.

he Koreans, Taiwanese, Japanese, Pinoy, Vietnamese, Malays will be surprised to hear that.

Oh my mistake, I didn’t realize I was talking to the collective lemmy account of the people of Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Pinoy, Vietnam, and Malay.

Oh wait, I’m not. I’m talking to an arrogant westerner who feels entitled to tell non-westerners what their opinions are, and to tell them that actually they would be no worse off if America was bombing them and taking over.

You are aware that China invaded Vietnam after the USA left?

Notice how you have to go back half a century, to an example that is not nearly as bad as what America did.

You are ignorant of the regional policies.

No, you’re just a denialist about how brutal western colonialism actually is. You’re not ignorant of it though, you’re an apologist for it, desperately trying to redefine the word so that extermination, violence, conquest, and exploitation in the tens of millions seems no worse than China building some shacks on an island

Nope.