• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    24 hours ago

    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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      21 hours ago

      Lol definitely not, Hitler was one of the western allies’ best customers of raw materials. In fact, US bomber pilots were specifically instructed not to hit certain factories in Germany that had business ties with US capitalists. Conscientiousness is not something I would ever expect from the people who would go on to do the Korean genocide ten years later.

      But 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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          15 hours ago

          Just straight up admitting you’ve defined imperialism so broadly as to be meaningless

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          21 hours ago

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

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            14 hours ago

            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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              14 hours ago

              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