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What’s wrong with anti-imperialism?

12.06.2025 00:31

What’s wrong with anti-imperialism?

A proper anti-imperialist is critical of ALL countries with imperial ambitions.

The problem I have is with the hypocrisy. Right here on Quora there are a ton of self-described anti-imperialists that absolutely despise America for being “imperialist” but continue to fellate Russia and China as these beacons of virtue.

Anti-imperialism is great when you call out ALL bad actors equally. America bad? Sure. But China bad, too. Russia bad. Iran bad. Be fair, be reasonable and analyze your own blind spots. Otherwise you’re not much of an anti-imperialist — you’re merely a willing propaganda mouthpiece for the other side.

How do people move on so quickly? I’m still sprung over someone I was dating and he found someone else so fast. I feel hurt because I’m still head over heels over him while he’s out enjoying his life with someone new

There’s one Indian Quoran in particular who has about 15 million answer views a month and his entire spiel is sucking up to China, how wonderful and perfect it is, how amazing it. He’s also very much pro-Russia, when Russia is a classical imperialist country in almost every definition you can think of. There are many such authors, here. Many of the young commenters will say America is “bullying” Cuba or North Korea with sanctions but say nothing of China bullying neighboring countries in the South China sea…

Nothing, when done right.