Just the fact that one discusses this in a way without involving too many emotions shows that one has learned from their mistakes.

Moreover, if the EU firmly holds onto the principle that one country cannot own another, it gives us a significant advantage over other superpowers.

Agree with you! 

Interesting review, but I do not agree with your view on the Krasnov hypothesis: Treason since the 80s would surely result in a lot of compromising material, Trump would never be able to get away from that. There are, in my opinion, many indications supporting Trump’s history with Russian connections, anti-NATO articles, Putin’s more or less open contempt, and more. The regime is still in Venezuela, where the game behind it is uncertain. Greenland is, in my opinion, most easily explained as a job ordered by Putin to weaken NATO.

I believe the Biden administration’s actions are most easily explained by cowardice and kicking the ball forward out of fear of nuclear weapons. I do not believe in a unified agenda, but the conclusion that Europe must step up significantly holds true in any case.

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Kurdish reinforcements are on the way but this is pretty shaky right now.

Abysmal 😡

Yes, and a year ago I took the job.

It is possible to find all different examples of colonialism and its positive – negative sides.

Customer Leopold from Belgium managed to kill 20 million Congolese people in 23 years and the rest had some hand cut off because they were late for work.

Portugal was one of the last countries to leave its colonies and in Angola it immediately turned into civil war and today rampant corruption – where they exchanged something bad for something even worse.

Like in Iran, they voted out a mediocre Shah and got a abyssal-evil dictatorship instead.

But the principle that one should not own another country I think is right – just that it is not applied to China or Russia at all.

And the slave trade is still thriving in MENA.

And there are plenty of dictators who are worse than Leopold was.

USS George Washington ?

Moreover, European colonialism has probably never been entirely evil.
Take, for example, the Hindu tradition of widow burning that the English banned over 200 years ago in India.
Is that malevolent colonialism?
Of course, England had the East India Company, which is something to be ashamed of.

Sure, we had the slave trade in Africa, or wait a minute?
Wasn’t it mostly the USA involved in the slave trade?

That was a bit of history.
But looking ahead, I believe that in Europe, we have learned from our historical mistakes in a completely different way than the USA, Russia, and China have.
This is probably Europe’s greatest advantage in the future.