• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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      Not a historian, but from the top of my head: driving back Germany from having too much power in Europe, assisting the British allies and/or preventing the soviets from conquering too much of Germany and turning it “socialist”.

      Do you think the US entered a war, because Hitler was a bad guy? O.o

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        11 hours ago

        So what I’m getting from this definition is that any military action across a national border for any reason other than, i guess, pure moral altruistim, is imperialism. Is that the conclusion you mean to build to?

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            Just straight up admitting you’ve defined imperialism so broadly as to be meaningless

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            11 hours ago

            Yeah I agree. So does that make all military conflict that crosses a national border imperialism or does it not?

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              4 hours ago

              I don’t “want to built to” any conclusion. I gave one definition. And your conclusion, according to that definition is correct.

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                It’s “anarchists” like you why people call it anarkiddies. Read theory then you won’t sound as stupid as you do in this thread