Their wars are for profit and control.
And USSR, China etc were different?
And USSR, China etc were different?
List any war after WW2 that the USSR joined for profit. List any war that China joined in the past 40 years.
Invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Invasion of Afghanistan.
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Occupation of Tibet is still ongoing.
Invasion of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan used to border the USSR, and the US had been arming theocratic extremist militias in the region to prevent a socialist turn of the country. The USSR fought these zealot warlords, not the country as a whole, the government at the time was pro-soviet. It’s these very people who are now in charge of the country, and look how that’s working for them. Compare the Human Development Index of Afghanistan, to that of post-soviet Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan.
Occupation of Tibet is still ongoing
You’re right, Tibetan people would be so much better off as literal serfs bound to the land they worked for the local aristocrats, as it happened up until the 50s
Occupation of Tibet is still ongoing.
Not a single country in the world has ever recognized Tibet as an independent country. Tibet has been universally recognized as part of China since it was conquered by the Mongols in the 13th century.
China lost control of Tibet during the Chinese Civil War, and you could say Tibet was a de facto independent country during that time. But not a single country recognized it as independent.
The popular Western concern about Tibetan independence seems to have come out of nowhere in the 1990s.
Also, Taiwan (the ROC) continues to claim sovereignty over Tibet too, and Western nations don’t seem to condemn Taiwan for that.
There’s certainly a case that could be made for Tibetan sovereignty, just as there is for Basque or Kurdish or Khalistan sovereignty. (And also a case that could be made against it.) I just want to point out that the Western concern about Tibetan sovereignty is hypocritical and rooted in propaganda.