• Prunebutt@slrpnk.netBanned from community
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      They were done for imperialist reasons, yes.

      What’s your point? I didn’t make a moralist statement about imperialism.

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          Not a historian, but from the top of my head: driving back Germany from having too much power in Europe, assisting the British allies and/or preventing the soviets from conquering too much of Germany and turning it “socialist”.

          Do you think the US entered a war, because Hitler was a bad guy? O.o

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            So what I’m getting from this definition is that any military action across a national border for any reason other than, i guess, pure moral altruistim, is imperialism. Is that the conclusion you mean to build to?

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              States don’t do altruism in a world of states that compete against each other.

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                Yeah I agree. So does that make all military conflict that crosses a national border imperialism or does it not?

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                  I don’t “want to built to” any conclusion. I gave one definition. And your conclusion, according to that definition is correct.

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                    It’s “anarchists” like you why people call it anarkiddies. Read theory then you won’t sound as stupid as you do in this thread