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      11 hours ago

      We (the west) helped them become who they are. We relocated all our production there because they were cheap and didn’t mind throwing a bunch of poor people into the grinder. Arguably, the fastest and most efficient way for them to get out from under our thumb was authoritarian rule. Democratic rule would’ve been torpedoed by the US or one of its European vassals in favour of an authoritarian one we installed.

      The world could’ve looked very different had the US not meddled in a lot of countries. Here’s an entire list that probably has about 70 countries on it.

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        had the US not meddled in a lot of countries

        Hold on a sec, you can’t get off the hook that easy, Europe

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          Democratic rule would’ve been torpedoed by the US or one of its European vassals in favour of an authoritarian one we installed.

          Literally the sentence above it

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            That sentence still makes it sound like you think the US has been unilaterally directing western colonialism, but European nations have independently taken the initiative on that quite a bit