Would you rather we took the opportunity postwar to conquer and rule the whole w

Would you rather we took the opportunity postwar to conquer and rule the whole world – because it was easily within our power?

We learned from colonialism that we cannot save you – we can only create an environment where you can save yourselves.

Had the middle east not held such reserves it would still be a backwater like much of africa. But as such we needed to defend those reserves for the purpose of completing our project of dragging humanity into modernity and prosperity. We did.

But we can’t civilize the uncivilized. We can only create the environment where they can civilize themselves.

The only places we have been successful at ‘civilization’ has been by total replacement. That includes the total replacement of native europeans by the steppe herders europeans creating what is today european peoples.

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