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So...WW2. The invasion of Normandy by the allied powers. Imperialism?
They sure as shit weren't there to free the concentration camps.
Okay, so were the D-Day landings imperialism, yes or no?
They were done for imperialist reasons, yes.
What's your point? I didn't make a moralist statement about imperialism.
What were the imperialist reasons?
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
Lol definitely not, Hitler was one of the western allies' best customers of raw materials. In fact, US bomber pilots were specifically instructed not to hit certain factories in Germany that had business ties with US capitalists. Conscientiousness is not something I would ever expect from the people who would go on to do the Korean genocide ten years later.
But 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?
States don't do altruism in a world of states that compete against each other.
Yeah I agree. So does that make all military conflict that crosses a national border imperialism or does it not?
I don't "want to built to" any conclusion. I gave one definition. And your conclusion, according to that definition is correct.
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
Just straight up admitting you've defined imperialism so broadly as to be meaningless