• Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 hours ago

      Hey, let’s compare definitions.
      In my books, it’s when a big country tries to take some land, usually rich in resources, murder those parts of local population who disagrees with that, and make the rest into a workforce, taking all the resources into metropolis.
      Now, given that, what parts of Russian relationships with Crimea, Donbass, and Lugansk regions don’t fit this definition? Well, apart from the fact that Russian military force is a military farce and they fail at all their plans except one when they murder local population.
      Or do you think attempted colonialism doesn’t count? Because it’s not for the lack of trying, you know

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      23 hours ago

      Colonialism is when a country I don’t like does a thing I don’t like somewhere else. Imperialism is when any country attacks any other.

      There, who needs books when it’s that simple, tankies?

      • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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        It’s only Colonialism if it’s from Colonial region of the world, otherwise it’s sparkling war with the exploitative and/or genocidal purposes, and then it’s OK if it’s the country that I like. You wouldn’t understand, lib.