The proper response to this is that all those countries seized their resources from foreign invaders and internal parasites with the state apparatus and chartered a path of self determination that led to improved lives for the majority of their people and maybe we could learn a thing or two from that. Maybe include that anyone losing their minds at the mere mention of these places (or using them as dog whistles) is engaging in bad faith and should be entirely disregarded.
I don't think she actually knows and/or cares though. She is like every other social democrat after 1917 who only wants to build a release valve on the empire so that it does not explode.
The proper response to this is that all those countries seized their resources from foreign invaders and internal parasites with the state apparatus and chartered a path of self determination that led to improved lives for the majority of their people and maybe we could learn a thing or two from that. Maybe include that anyone losing their minds at the mere mention of these places (or using them as dog whistles) is engaging in bad faith and should be entirely disregarded.
I don't think she actually knows and/or cares though. She is like every other social democrat after 1917 who only wants to build a release valve on the empire so that it does not explode.