This is so unhinged.
TIL War Thunder is "slightly woke" because one of the many JSDF attack helicopters has a female crew.
Like in real life BTW.
And also raging about some Dutch gang members being Black in Hitman. Why would the original colonial power have impoverished black people around I wonder.
It's pure entertainment.
Where in Europe?
In case you're asking this in good faith, Crimea has been the victim of Russian settler-colonialism, so the people livinh there are the invaders in a lot of cases.
It's like calling a referendum on Gaza conducted by Israel the will of the people.
Also known as JAQing off
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The problem is that existing power structures will try to transfer their power to the new system, and it isn't that hard for them to do that. A new anarchist communistic structure will have to fight the CIA and the US military's various fragments, if it goes as it did in the Warsaw Pact.
I doubt that the Catholic Church is big enough in the US for them to have that much of an influence on who the next pope is. There hasn't ever been a pope from the US.
I think it's highly optimistic to expect that, if anything it's going to be more like the collapse of the Soviet empire, with weird successor state nonsense, some civil war, guns and violent crime everywhere, and those already in power going on a free for all kill each other and loot everything spree.
Currently sixth favourite only, so barring some big upset, not likely to win.
The problem I see with the West addressing this is that for that to happen, we have to stop viewing the West as a single unitary thing, both in terms of nations and of social class. You can't blame the whole collective West while expecting them to join your side of the neocolonialism debate.
And the flip side is that the whoel subject cannot really be talked about without looking at geopolitics as a whole. Neocolnialism is practiced by all major and some minor powers today, and it is the exact same dynamic playing out in Ukraine that is playing out in Palestine, with the small difference that Ukrainians had a headstart of a mostly functional country in the first place so they can defend themselves from their aggressor more effectively.
Calling for the US to stop backing genocide only makes your argument anti-colonialist if you oppose other attempts of colonialism, like Russia trying to retain its colony Ukraine. Russia has been propped up just as much by its colonies as the US, except they never really made it to prosperity. TBH the current best hope for a great power that is independent enough not to be another colony to emerge, that does not directly need its colonies to even survive, is if Ukraine joins the EU. In that case, I think there may be a future when the French get out of Africa like how the British got out of much of their colonies.
My point here is that the statement that "the US-led West is the biggest exploiter and beneficiary of neocolonialism" might have been true between like 1990 and 2010, but before that the USSR was just as big a contender, and today's China and Russia are also trying to either set up their new colonial empire, or trying to reclaim some semblance of their old.
Not to mention that the "US-led West" has died with the re-election of Donald Trump.
I'm just going to point out that while communism has its problems itself, no, this is capitalism alright.