Has anyone in this thread denied or minimized the US' colonial history? No? Oh, right, this is just an empty appeal to whataboutism to obfuscate the fact that you actively apologize for Russian imperialism.
I’m not an apologist for Russian imperialism, other than, I suppose, in the sense that I acknowledge that the Russian leadership and (many) Russian people believe that Russia has a right to play role in the politics of its neighbours, both in order to support the interests of the Russian state and to support the rights of Russians living in those countries, and that this viewpoint is not going to go away any time soon and that I don’t believe this is something that we in the West can change.
That aside, the point of posting the map is to emphasise that the United States and Russia
aren’t that different, realistically. Both are continent spanning empires; both were built on conquest and bloodshed; both countries have historically claimed the right to a sphere of influence; and the elites of both countries have an imperialistic mindset (albeit flavoured differently). Americans, of course, like to pretend that they’re special and elite Americans love to flaunt their country’s supposed ‘values’, but really the only thing that marks them out from Russians is the language that they speak and the size of their waists.
