AKSHUALLY feudalism would be dynasties renting (defacto owning) land from the king. Kings historically didnt control a lot of land directly. Absolutism which laid the foundation for the modern nation state, was the consoldation of most land in the hand of the king.

Brexit was also very much driven by London profiting massively from financial services, while the rest of the country rotted away. Rural vs Urban, English vs British all were components.

I remember the time ChapoTrapHouse was trying to gaslight its audience into thinking the Brits did Brexit as solidarity with Greek workers or because it was mistreated by the EU. Despite the UK being amongst the top pro-austerity countries alongside Denmark and the Netherlands.

He had enough friends/servants/sycophants.

I know someone who is still using a friend’s former accounts, despite that friend going radiosilent and vanishing into a foreign country years ago.

Only part of it. Colonialism needs a Colony to be established. The name comes from ancient times when greeks would leave the metropole (mothercity) and establish cities to trade with the metropole. Though unlike the general understanding of modern colonialism, the ancient greek colonialism never really resulted in an expansion of the metropole - the colonies acted as rival independent powers with only vague cultural kinship. Same with Crustumium which was an early roman colony and would also go to war with rome.

Its closer to just tribute or raiding.

New Mexico is littered with dead bodies. Its basically a Deep State colony. NM political leaders are deeply tied to Epstein.

The years leading up to the split in Die Linke was spent trying to get rid of Wagenknecht because she was too anti-NATO & anti-EU (the whacko queerphobia was never an issue) and was scaring off the “normies”. Of course since popular sentiment immediately after the invasion of ukraine by russia was pretty against russia, it was very easy for Die Linke to purge anyone not pro-west (anti-zionists were also pushed out, since the “left are the true antisemites” and “we need to talk about the antisemitism problem on the left” tropes have been widely employed for DECADES).

All of that is the reason, I am very suspicious of folks who argue for trying to appeal to “normal” people by toning down on anti-empire speech- which was/is a common take in the left-influencersphere still.

Yes. They are a colonial extraction force used by Rwanda, and the US brokered a peace deal to basically stop M23 at their momentum. I assume Prince gets released in exchange for M23 being allowed to occupy the Kivu region of the DRC.

It would be nice he gets a small justice, but he’s likely safe.

Yes Yemen, Palestine, NK and Vietnam paid/pay an ENORMOUS price for their defiance. You know just the destruction, mass slaughter and violation of everything their populace knows.

They trust trump and imperial media more than any news from china or other AES countries. As if the US didnt spend the last two months manifesting Venezuelan puppetry.

Die Linke “gave” up any anti-imperialist position to become more “electable” and be “normal” (ironically the supposed working class that this move was catered to, is hardly anti-russian at all) - this is the end result. I told party members at my local branch all the way back then that being anti-russian inside Germany wasnt a revolutionary position. Of course they knew better.