Nemeski to [email protected] • 6 days agoTrump says he wants Ukraine's rare earth elements as a condition of further supportapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1161arrow-down14cross-posted to: world
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minus-squareAbsentBirdlinkfedilinkEnglish11•6 days agoBritain picked fights with the French, the Spanish, and Austria, then expected their colonies to foot the bill.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 days agoIsn’t that kind of what colonies are for? Extracting money from land you took from the people who lived there before?
minus-squareAbsentBirdlinkfedilinkEnglish4•5 days agoIf that’s how you treat people you shouldn’t be surprised when they ‘cause a fuss’ and kick you out.
Britain picked fights with the French, the Spanish, and Austria, then expected their colonies to foot the bill.
Isn’t that kind of what colonies are for? Extracting money from land you took from the people who lived there before?
If that’s how you treat people you shouldn’t be surprised when they ‘cause a fuss’ and kick you out.
I agree, on both levels.
My empire my rules