alt.politics.british

Bert Hyman wrote:

> dapra1@comcast.net (dapra) wrote in
> news:NLmdnSHikZjUUqDanZ2dnUVZ_q6mnZ2d@comcast.com:
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>>The aggressive imperialism of the West of the last hundred years,
>>France and GB, and now the US, is the main reason.
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> You mean the period when the colonial powers shed their empires?
> That kind of "aggressive imperialism"?
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The shedding was about after W.W.II, mid century. The US picked up the
baton. Of course not everywhere, only where it needed.

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> The US has never had an empire.
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It depends on how you define empire.