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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It is a colonial backlash that hasn't been seen since the second world war forced Europe to divest of their world wide holdings.
Feels like we are in the midst of a redrawing of of the entire world map of power.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Not all of the world's political ills are rooted in colonialism. People in that part of the world were revolting, having civil wars, and assassinating their enemies back when Europeans were still running around in furs hurling spears at one another.
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Sorry Cliff, I just read these posts back to back and this is a miscommunication in my part. I should've used 'client state' instead of 'colonial' and it changed the entire substance of what I keant to say.
I think we are seeing a power shift that may change the status quo national state relationships between the major powers. Turkey seemingly drifting away from NATO, the Russians reasserting themselves in the Ukraine and along their southern Asian border.
I don't think there has been a Geo political shift like this since the fall of the Berlin Wall but more realistically since the second world war ended.