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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

By this definition the US would no longer be imperialist, so incorrect, also china is most certainly not doing that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

they do the same thing just in an abstract way, instead of taking land directly, they take influence through war

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

so what is the country that fights these abstract influences from the US? ain't ukraine an US proxy explicitly since 2014?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why is that abstract, but redrawing borders on a map isn't?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I said MORE abstract

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

You said

they do the same thing just in an abstract way, instead of taking land directly, they take influence through war

You didn't say "more abstract".

And even if you did, that still doesn't answer the question.

You didn't give any example of these "abstract ways" either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

You gotta get a materialist worldview comrade, read some Lenin rather than posing a definition and immediately conceding