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Objection@lemmy.ml 3 hours agoRight a power drawing a line on a map claiming land and then enforcing that claim via violence totally isn’t colonialism.
That’s every state that has ever existed or could theoretically exist, lol.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Oh right the old everyone kills their neighbors defense so all genocide is a-ok.
Yeah no, I hold the modern world to a higher standard than that sorry.
Feels like you are finally admitting to the imperialism at least
Objection@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Not even remotely close to what I said.
Not even remotely close to what I said.
“States existing” is neither imperialism nor colonialism lmao.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Did modern day switzerland (post ww2 seems like a good line but I’m open on this) draw a random ass claim on parts of France and fill the river with skeletons? That’s certainly not in any history book I’ve ever seen
Objection@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Moving the goalposts. What you said was:
“Switzerland” is just some lines drawn on a map enforced via violence. So is “France.” So is literally every country.
Why would the line have to include territory that was part of another country? That’s not what you said, nor is it what China did.
As I said, Tibet had already been a part of China for 200 years. It broke away much like the Confederacy broke away from the US, and like the US, China reasserted control and freed the people from slavery.