• OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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    So your argument is the geographical boundaries mean when a country is split it is imperialism to unite it again?

    Imagine if the confederacy retreated to the keys islands, that’s sort of the level of ridiculous here. The right wing losers of a civil war retreated to an island that was and is considered part of the country.

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      I would go even further. If a country exists and everybody has a national identity, all happy citizens. Then one region decides to become separatist. If the rest of the country doesn’t let them separate, I would qualify that as imperialism as well.

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        Have you read anything on what imperialism actually is?

        I would suggest reading Lenin’s “Imperialism”