Cognitive dissonance? The European and especially their settler counterpart’s beliefs are quite consistent when it comes to pillaging from, plundering from and preventing true independence of Global South countries.

Imperialist undertones is when you jeopardize several negotations, enact and maintain sanctions, station military outposts that encircle the “enemy state”, take out 100+ school girls and not-just-any leader of a state, all halfway across the globe.

Just very lowkey stuff, quite hard to miss.