But that's kinda what everybody is trying to say in answer to you.

Sure, there's probably an argument to be made that the imperialist projects of those countries' past doesn't exist anymore but the benefits from those times didn't go away. And it seems important (at least to me) to maybe not forget it. :edgeworth-shrug:

Like, if those Nordic countries were required to pay back the ill gotten gains from their past imperialist projects, would the labor/socialist movements been able to win their fights?