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    10 months ago

    But assuming that one has to be dominant, which would you choose of the ones that are realistic possibilities?

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        10 months ago

        So you are okay with living under extreme censorship? Not being able to talk about Tienamin Square, etc? Okay with being complicit in atrocities like Tibet, and inevitably Taiwan if unopposed?

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        10 months ago

        Who is that? Certainly none of the countries that could actually take up the mantle. And I fear that any country that could would finally become imperialist. If we say that the top 3 competitors are US, China, and Russia, there’s only one that hasn’t actively attempted conquest and annexation of their neighbors.

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          All 3 have, what are you smoking? The US is one of the most imperialistic nations on Earth. That’s not to say Russia and China aren’t either, but to pretend the US didn’t forcibly annex territories is to wash away the centuries of genocide and Conquest as “okay” because it was done successfully and more than a few years ago.

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            10 months ago

            Do you consider things which happened hundreds of years ago to be of the same weight as things that are happening as we speak?

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              Do you consider things which happened merely decades ago, even up to hundreds of years ago, have lasting impact on generations that follow?

              If you successfully do Imperialism, such that the colonized can no longer resist, does that erase the sin?

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                10 months ago

                I don’t, but if given a choice between living under a power that’s actively attacking and subjugating its neighbors and committing genocides and one that’s not, I’ll take the one that’s not.