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Imperialism addiction

 Since the end of the cold war, we witnessed a series of events in which revolutionary policy changes were justified with a recall to imperialism. We first experienced the Russian attacks on Georgia, followed by the ones on Ukraine and hybrid war fare. In the meantime, we saw the Brexit in which the longing for being the centre of power was stronger than the rationale of being part of a huge and nearby market. Recently we can add Trump and his MAGA policies in which the already enormous space of the United States is to be enlarged with Canada, Greenland and a decisive say in the whole Western Hemisphere. Even states with a neglectable number of people such as Isreal openly aim for a Greater Israel, again based on historical imperialistic justifications. These four actors do not hesitate to use violence to reach their ambitions, be it literally such as in the case of Russia and Isreal or through exertion such as the US and in a lesser form the UK and even France. The arguments of ...