The foreign ministers of the US, Germany, and Ukraine told the world at the Munich Security Conference, "Neutrality is not an option" in NATO's proxy war against Russia, criticizing the Global South.
I remember thinking the same myself once. An ill educated teenager, I wanted to learn more. I picked up Niall Ferguson’s Empire. From his website:
… Niall Ferguson’s acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity.
I won’t tell you the subtitle. Okay, you’ve pulled my leg, I’ll tell you. It’s Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Took me some years to undo the damage that book did to my critical faculties.
Colonisers brought civilization, Yogthos. You should already know this 🙄
Lots of westoids genuinely believe this too.
I remember thinking the same myself once. An ill educated teenager, I wanted to learn more. I picked up Niall Ferguson’s Empire. From his website:
I won’t tell you the subtitle. Okay, you’ve pulled my leg, I’ll tell you. It’s Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Took me some years to undo the damage that book did to my critical faculties.
Yeah, that’s some quality propaganda right there.