• supersolid_snake
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    18 days ago

    Colonialists and imperialists always say this. Literally king Leopold who wiped out a third of the Congo also said he went there to free the Congolese from tyrants. Also when they say listen to “insert blank here” voices, they find the “insert blank here” that agrees with them. There are tons of syrians, Palestinians, arabs, etc that didn’t want this.

    We need to also start understanding the concept of “native informants” here. There are tons of think tanks, academics, etc here that will sell out their people for a ivy league gig.

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      18 days ago

      native informants

      We have a term for them: collaborators, when it comes to allying with western military, or compradors, when it comes to economic looting of their own country.