• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    By that logic the American patriots in 1776 shouldn’t have taken on the British Empire.

    Well, my bad, Trump and logic don’t mix.

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      3 days ago

      If i remember correctly the Americans had a lot of help from the French who wanted nothing more than reduced british influence in the world.

      Almost as if we should be pumping Ukraine full of military hardware to reduce Russian influence on the world

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      Well, the indigenous wouldn’t have been so thoroughly genocided if they hadn’t. The primary contradiction leading to the war was the British forbidding further westward settlement and the colonizers were not okay with that.

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        3 days ago

        That is true but also irrelevant to the point of “small nations can take on larger ones”.

        Closer to that would be to say that of course it made sense for the indigenous people to fight the European/American colonization and Genocide every step of the way even if they were dwarfed by their power.