Tag: Imperialism
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Donald Trump: Making old-fashioned imperialism great again
Behind President Donald Trump’s pseudo-pacifist rhetoric of insisting to “stop the killing” lies the soft sell of a new imperialist world order, where borders are redrawn by centres of power and small nations risk losing their sovereignty at the will of stronger neighbours. This is the world that President Trump envisions and is creating with…
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The view from the other side: Cooperation vs Competition
The West is currently its own worst enemy. As Western states frantically go to China whilst competing with each other for China’s friendship, all of them miss the most basic point, that China is not cooperating with us as a genuine partner of goodwill, but competing with us for political and global control. I find…
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100,000+
100,000 dead Russian soldiers and more in Ukraine should be enough to tell Russia, China, the Iranian Ayatollahs, Bashar al-Assad, and any other authoritarian state or dictator that the days of warring imperialism are over and anyone who will attempt it will pay a very high price. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is by now, historically,…
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The imperialism of diplomacy
It is indeed not surprising that prominent rich Americans of the hard right like Elon Musk and David Sacks are in contact with the Kremlin and are propagating its demands in exchange for ending its war on Ukraine. The logical fallacy that one should negotiate for peace with someone who wants to destroy you has…
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Europe’s Modern Dark Ages
Babylon may have been the cradle of civilization but Europe is the cradle of the Modern World. Rule of law, as opposed to rule by autocracy, originated from Europe more specifically in the Greek city-states and the Roman Republic. Today, Europe still stands as the main bastion of Western civilisation. Without Europe, the whole Western…
