Re your concerns about US global domination

Come on now, enough with the hyperbole. The US has been a superpower for 60 years, the beginning of which was marked with rebuilding Europe and Japan insead of enjoying the spoils of war, then turned to creating international organizations like NATO and the UN as a response to Soviet expansion, and then worked to clean up hotspots like Yugoslavia, Kuwait, and Bosnia.

I can't say I approve every US action in that span of time (particularly in South America and Southeast Asia), but the basis of comparison is the Europeans. This is a group of people who, when they had the power to, raped and pillaged the rest of the planet for 500 years, before just about destroying themselves in two wars. Now suddenly they're the moral compass for the rest of the planet?

>>58

The people who live there do govern Egypt, and always have.

When Napoleon governed it he lived there for several years.

p.s., why am I an idiot when you've obviously never read a single book on the subject of modern Egyptian history?

>>59

I didn't ignore the definition; I've been aware of it the entire period I've been writing in this thread. It's just so broad as to be useless.

"one nation exerts political control over another nation, territory, or people" describes every nation I can think of. Syria and Lebanon, Greece and Macedonia, Turkey and Greece, Russia and its client states, China and its client states, China and Taiwan and Hong Kong, the US and most everything, Canada and the inuits, Mexico and the Zapatistas, India and the indigenous Muslims, Pakistan and the indigenous non-Muslims, Israel and the Palestinians, Jordan and the Palestinians, Iraq and the Palestinians... every nation in Africa has its own little minority which it is constantly torturing.

How am I misunderstanding the definition? Do they not maintain these peoples, territories, and nations in a state of dependence? Do these peoples, territories, and nations not suffer and survive at the whim of these nations? So then, is not every nation on Earth a colonial power?

So then, what is the purpose of the term? If one decries colonialism, isn't one simply decrying government?