You’re Demonstrably Incapable of Self-Rule if Your People are Running to the West

YOU’RE DEMONSTRABLY INCAPABLE OF SELF RULE IF YOUR PEOPLE ARE RUNNING TO THE WEST.

Either fix your problem at home, hire us to fix it for you (it’s quite easy if you’re honest to fix a society). And if you do neither, out of defense, we must start a new program of colonization and modernization out of our own self-defense.

It’s not our burden. It’s our defense.

You have no right to externalize your failures.

And we have no right to externalize our failures (democracy and equality)