Isn’t claiming territory that doesn’t belong to you as yours the definition of imperialism?
They get around this by using a version of Lenin’s definition of imperialism. Lenin characterised imperialism as, in very simple terms, the way that powerful capitalist countries exploit poorer countries (or straight up colonies, especially considering the time in which Lenin was writing). Of course they use a version of this that specifically defines it as just literally anything the countries they don’t like do, leading to ProleWiki insisting that Russia is not imperialist but Liechtenstein is
Similarly to how ‘reactionary’ just means ‘bad’ to these people. For the record a ‘reactionary’ is somebody who wants to restore a previous status quo. It’s not inherently good or bad.
Reactionary, in political science terms, is the opposite of radicals. Radicals are to the left and reactionaries are to the right. In practice, people on the internet tend to use radical for both, but I wish the distinction was made more clear.
By this logic, Australia, America, India and a ton of other countries are still part of England.
No. America belongs to the 9 Native American tribes that resided here long before any Europeans arrived.
I think you mean the over 500 native American tribes, unless you are putting down something that I am not picking up.
And Skyrim belongs to the Nords!
The moot was stolen by the Imperials! Support Ulfric Stormcloak and make Skyrim great again!
Calling it North Korea and not the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?
- USA belongs to Great Britain
- England and France belongs to the Roman empire
- Poland belongs to Prussia
England belongs to roman empire too.
Oh wait, does that mean US belongs to the roman empire all along?
Guys with moron labia stickers on their pavement princess trucks would love this until they had to wear roman clothing that they’d assume were dresses.
Austria belongs to Hungary or something idk history class isn’t great here
No countries are real. Everything belongs to everyone because our ancestors were there first.
