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4 points

The UK hasn’t invaded anywhere in almost two decades, what are you waffling about.

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57 points

Yeah, invasions are out of fashion. All the West does is make a country’s development contingent on their willingness to let the West exploit their natural resources and labor and then cut said development if they fund a social program or coup them if the “locals” are uncooperative. All after gutting these countries for hundreds of years via colonialism. You don’t need to do an invasion when you can just put a noose around the neck of a country.

Oh and the West still does invasions look at Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. And UK special forces have been in Syria, the Sudan, Nigeria, and others as recently as last year.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/23/uk-special-forces-have-operated-secretly-in-19-countries-since-2011

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Average neoliberal Pirate. Your bloodthirsty country should return all the gold and art that was stolen from all around the world.

PD: Read about neocolonialism.

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Yeah neocolonialism the thing Russia is attempting right now. If you oppose neocolonialism you should oppose Russia.

Or do you just hate western countries for fashy past grievances reasons?

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Hey, Space Neoliberalist. If you ever touch some real theory (instead of reading Harry Potter and The Washington Post), like Lenin. You would know that this is an inter-capitalist conflict (you know what that means?). If you think that USA is helping in good faith (and not in the interest of colonialism exploitation in the long run), you are an idiot.

“fashy past grievances reasons”

So denouncing the crimes of the west is fascist now?

-“Hey USA shouldn’t have supported dictatorships in Latin America with their Plan Cóndor, or helped in the coup against the democratic elected Salvador Allende. Or dropped two atomic bombs in two civilian cities, or having the highest incarcerated population doing slave labor, or burn with napalm villages, or puting children in cages in the border, or….”. I could be all night talking about USA crimes. A whole month with the Nato members crimes.

-”Shut up fascist.”

Is always projetion with you liberals. Scrath a liberal, and a bloodthirsty nafo fascist bleeds.

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Holy shit at least look the fucking word up in a dictionary before you try to turn it around on someone else you buffoon

Even if you were going to butcher the term ‘colonialism’ THAT’S the one that’s relevant if a country is being occupied militarily.

WHY DO YOU SPEAK AT ALL. YOU NEED SO MUCH READING AND LISTENING BEFORE YOU STOP SPEAKING NONSENSE. INVESTIGATE WHAT YOU SAY AAAAAAAA

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Neocolonialism understander has logged on

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Nah, I’m good cheers.

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38 points

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How dare you call me a murderer? I haven’t killed anyone in almost two years!

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Except that in this case they are saying that while killing someone.

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AKSHULLY right now I’m just repeatedly stabbing a man. We can’t know for certain if he’s actually dead until I’m done.

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Tell that to Yemen.

Also ‘we haven’t invaded anywhere in the very immediate past (though the genocidal war criminals who perpetrated our last invasion are still important and celebrated public figures)’ is a pretty fucking weak justification from a country insisting on being world police.

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32 points

we as the west

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Absolute brain worms claiming this as a talking point

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23 points

Have you heard of scotland/wales/northern ireland?

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Scotland were willing participants in an act of union what formed Britain you absolute melt.

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Don’t worry, it’s not like half the people in Scotland want to leave the UK. That could never possibly happen! Imagine! Voting to leave a huge unpopular imperialist neoliberal organization! Utterly preposterous! Could never happen in a million years!

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Noticing you didn’t defend the other two instances

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19 points

We were literally in Libya bombing civilians and training al quaeda cells just 12 years ago

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8 points

They were in Afghanistan until 2014

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/war-afghanistan

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