• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    24
    edit-2
    18 hours ago

    The Federal Republic of Germany is non-imperialist, since it’s imperialist predecessors ceased to exist and a new nation was formed

    • @edgemaster72
      link
      English
      35 hours ago

      Historians hate this one weird trick!

    • @Droggelbecher
      link
      English
      19 hours ago

      Genius strategy. Just rename your country and change its constitution etc, your new country will have committed zero atrocities! Never mind that you’ll continue to profit from the predecessor country’s imperialism.

    • @PugJesusOPM
      link
      English
      1918 hours ago

      A likely excuse!

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      10
      edit-2
      18 hours ago

      Well, the FRG (BRD) is the legal successor of the German Empire. The GDR (DDR) always emphasized, it/she is not.

      • Krik
        link
        fedilink
        English
        615 hours ago

        That is so but the German Reich as an entity still exists but completely lost his people and all state organs, institutions and public authorities. Technically is still has land, that is occupied by FRG and Poland today.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Germany

        There are some Germans that think they can declare themselves citizens of the German Reich. But that can’t be as there are no authorities of the German Reich anymore that can conduct immigration processes.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        317 hours ago

        Assuming one accepts the USSR and its bloc as inherently non-imperialistic.

        If so, though, good news: the DDR still exists. There’s an uninhabited island off Cuba that Fidel Castro gifted to the DDR, which has not passed into possession of the Bundesrepublik.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          3
          edit-2
          16 hours ago

          The Ernst Thälmann Island (Cayo Ernesto Thaelmann) was only named after the KPD leader, but not gifted to the DDR in terms of its territory. While, the English Wikipedia article is not distinct in that point and mentions the island being “gifted”, the German one is very clear, that only its name should honour the substitute saint of the DDR Ernst Thälmann while the territory remained part of Cuba.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      116 hours ago

      Just ask Greece how non-imperialist Germany is. /j

      Also: Economic warfare is a form of warfare, too.