• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    9 days ago

    “Become a world power”

    You know, we’ve had that experience before, “everywhere else” would pretty much prefer that didn’t happen again, thank you very much.

    • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      Seriously. Why do people genuinely think this is a good idea? Colonialism and imperialism is bad.

      People should have learned after the US’s faults, and overreliance of it due to being a world power; but people just want to do it again???

      • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Yes and no. Countries like Russia and China are always going to exist. That means places like the Philippines, Taiwan, Ukraine, and Georgia are always going to need a strong ally if they don’t want to be invaded. There are a lot of countries that are going to be very worried now that America has turned heel (Especially Taiwan). Europe has mostly grown out of the need for constant expansion, so having them take on the role of world police wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen.

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          9 days ago

          Yeah, i know ☹️ Life’s unfair. While the idea of one incredibly powerful union scares me (see what they did in the middle east) the other countries are always going to fuck up the balance.

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            9 days ago

            While the idea of one incredibly powerful union scares me (see what they did in the middle east)

            America’s adventurism in the ME was but a blip compared to the literal centuries that the Brits and the French have spent fucking up that area of the world. Does no one study history anymore?

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          9 days ago

          Uh… How exactly is China historically expansionist? Isn’t Europe much, much worse by any metric at basically any point of history you choose?

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            9 days ago

            How exactly is China historically expansionist?

            Tibet used to be a seperate contry. The Uygurs were a Turkic Khanate to themselves.

            Bejing’s aim is to homogenise those regions instead of preserving their culture and integrate them further economically to China as a whole, which would have the benefit of improved economic outcomes to both “parties” and maintain arts, culture and liberties of the people there.

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              9 days ago

              Tibet used to be a seperate contry

              Tibet used to be a feudalist dictatorship where 80% of the population were essentially slaves legally bound to the land of landowners.

              Bejing’s aim is to homogenise those regions instead of preserving their culture

              How many official languages are there in your country?

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                  As far as I know, they Tibetans still speaking Tibetans and practicing their own religion, unlike Okinawans or ainus in Japan who culture and language got wiped out so clean that they couldn’t even sing their old folk songs in their native languages.