Kind of funny to watch an affectively polite center-right figure wring his hands about the realization that being on the right means, as it has always meant, that you actively favor things like brutal imperialismhttps://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1422573314934022147 …
The Russian Empire had collapsed, its subject peoples had obtained freedom, and then the Soviets opted to use the Red army to claw those people back in, violently suppress them and then applied the same treatment to eastern Europe. I'm not sure what else to call that.
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This isn't a case of inheriting a functioning empire and deciding to keep it - the Tsarist empire was *gone* and the Soviets actively *rebuilt* it. See also the PRC rebuilding the Qing's empire, to the sorrow of the Tibetans, Uighurs and Mongolians.
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I think the danger here is that there are few enough leftist regimes with any actual power that there is a temptation to no-true-scotsman all of them in service to the 'communism is anti-colonial' line which seems to me to have always been a lie.
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