Yeah… tons of bribe money will do that to the governments of weak nations - it's almost like Cuba had the correct idea.

Last time I checked, big foreign corporations are still looting and pillaging all over Africa as if independence never happened… I wonder why?

edit: This includes Shell, a Dutch corporation, btw.

Laughs hysterically in South African… where we now have no choice but to use gas for almost everything because our electrical grid is collapsing due to IMF-approved neoliberal shitfuckery.

Bullcrap. Since when does genocidal European colonial-settler states have "natural rights" to the land the are perpetrating genocide upon?

And what would this (alleged) "third option" be? This?

When was this nationalist hokum ever in date? Nationality has always been a piss-poor substitute for actual cultural identities… that's the whole reason classical liberal nation states had to be forced onto people through state brutality.

What about confronting it's colonial present? Last time I checked, the colonialist world order that underpins the wealth of the Global North hasn't ended.

Many haven’t fully come to terms with it.

No… they haven't. Colonialism is not the past… it's the present. And the Netherlands still benefit from it to this very day.

You can’t easily point on who‘s the good and who’s the bad.

Hint: It's always the side perpetrating genocidal settler-colonialism that's the bad-der one (by far), okay?

they only ever say positive things about Donald Trump

Sooo… it's just another right-wing astroturfing project.

Maintaining a settler-colonialist state in the face of people who aren't just armed with spears takes a lot of money, I guess.

Regulated capitalism. Prosecuting corruption.

Right, regulate capitalism… by regulating the capitalists that have all the money and can buy the regulators any time they feel like it.

Sounds legit.

but we do owe them an apology once all the information is out.

No - we don't owe a serial killer an apology if turns out they murdered ninety-nine people instead of a hundred.

the polite thing to do is apologize for thinking badly of them

No, there is nothing "polite" about "apologizing" to a genocidal settler-colonialist state.

basically the UN is a forum for dialogue and we need the big players to be part of it.

Allowing the five biggest arms manufacturers on the planet to decide "security" issues is no different than allowing the five biggest drug cartels in the world to decide "health" issues.

The Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive put Army Group Center in an increasingly precarious position even as Russia continually gained ground in Byelorussia.

And don't forget that during this time the ubermensch were also losing control over the Balkans…

Russians trying to rewrite history,

TIL… western historians deliberately glorifying the US and Britain's role in WW2 = "Russians trying to rewrite history."

When the USA joined the war it was already clear the axis had lost.

While I agree that that it was the Soviet and Chinese people that absorbed the greatest part of the Axis' powers warmaking ability (which western historians are apt to ignore), it's not true that the Axis had already lost the war by 1941. It's accurate to say that the US joined the war at a moment when the Axis forces had hopelessly overstretched themselves.

The US has never opposed fascism - Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were colonialist rivals threatening US hegemony and influence and nothing more.

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I gave the most recent example

Do you have another one? As demonstrated, your previous claim is a pretty dodgy one.