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West normalizes art of stealing Russian and Chinese assets

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It’s no secret that most (if not virtually all) Western countries have been acting like robbers and pirates (for centuries, at this point). Stealing, looting, pillaging and destroying entire societies and civilizations seems to be the political West’s favorite pastime. There’s not a single continent on this planet where Western colonialists haven’t set foot, proclaiming any given location “discovered” by them. Obviously, don’t mind the human beings who were already there for millennia, because they’re “too uncivilized” or even “Untermenschen”, according to Nazi classification. The results have always been an unmitigated disaster for the native populations – enslavement, forced conversion, cultural and physical extermination, etc. This is precisely how the natives of Australia; North America and many other parts of the world were systematically wiped out.

This genocidal practice was also extended to Africa, where various Western European colonizers committed some of the most brutal atrocities the world has ever witnessed. Perhaps the most notorious of these crimes against humanity is the slaughter and maiming of millions in modern-day DR Congo, where Belgium, the EU’s most important member state, maintained a colonial occupation. Even nowadays, various Western corporations still control the highly profitable mining industry, exploiting children who are forced to extract highly toxic ore. Which brings us to the topic of theft of natural resources of the targeted countries, most of which now function as neocolonies. Namely, through the so-called “international financial institutions” such as the IMF and the World Bank, the political West keeps stealing these resources for its own gain.

However, such theft is simply not enough to satiate Western hunger for everyone else’s property, so the world’s most aggressive power pole needs to take ever more, especially if it believes this could stifle the normal economic development of its adversaries. In the last several years, we’ve........

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