AzazelForefatherfnmDribble
Why would you move to the netherlands and not say brazil or mexico? I'm sure some people would find it racist that you would move somewhere with less diversity
You know these countries might actually be fucked up because of continual U.S. and Western intervention rather than being non-white? I bet you think racism ended in America after slavery too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#US_involvement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalajara_Cartel#Collaboration_with_the_CIA_and_DFS
you seem to forgot that in the cold war, latin-america was of very strategic importance and thus a lot of proxy wars happened. Or do you think FARC popped out of nothing? http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/17/19820625.pdf I I agree, americans overthrowal of democratically elected regimes is abhorrable, and the CIA-contra affairs are on of the darker pages of US foreign policy, but lets not forget there were more than one side on this. Or do you think that the recent "leftist" regimes in Venezuela, Argentina and in Brazil's are examples on how it should be? if no-one meddles, latin american states could be way more prosperous and relatively well run, like Uruguay, it's irrelevance being its saving grace. (kinda like belgium )
Lemme tell you something about slavery, one of the reasons Leopold II acquired the congo as his domain, allowing him to eventually cause 6 million poeple to die in indentured service, was becuase Leopold II REALLY wanted a colony, or any expansion, no seriously, this guy had all kinds of plans for prestige, tried to acquire the philippines, tried to assemble an invasion of the Netherlands, and of course the acquisation of the Congo free state on the Berlin conference, which was as you can guess was mainly about Germany, inviting the other great powers to settle on a division, and the Germans were sympathetic to Leopold II's PR campaign, which basically was a "society for the advancment of Congo" and it was also very convienent to have a buffer between the french, english and german colonies in central africa.. Anyways, one of the first things he ordered to do was to establish full control over the region, and for this he had to wage a war vs arab slave traders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Arab_war in 1890. I read the diary of the colonel who was leading the campaign, and it was quite gruelsome, the local tribesmen would "clean up" the battlefield by eating the enemy corpses at the campfire in the evenings, and no trace of the battle the next morning.. Now why did i bring this up and how it connects to your last statement about slavery, the slavery of people by non-european powers was one of the bigger motivations to have boots on the grounds in those territories and thus, starting the era of colonisation. For example, read up on what happened to the barbary coast raiders and France after the USA had to wage a war, with as justification this quote from the two-dollar man
In March 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). When they enquired "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied:
"It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once." [22]
two wars later (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Barbary_War) and the autonomous provinces of the crumbling Ottoman empire, fell one by one to the european powers. Effectively abolishing slavery across the Mediterranean.