How is it different from Asian imperialism? (Genghis Khan, Imperial Japan, Soviet Union).
We must judge nations by todays standards, not by that of centuries ago.
Imperial Japan - 14th century
The Soviet Union - They mostly annexed poor territories. I am not sure, how much wealth they extracted but 2 bads don't make 1 good.
In comparison, European Imperialism started at 1400 ended just 70-years ago.
Till then the world had a global currency, industrialization had started. Heck, we even had structures representing modern companies, banks, and the stock market.
So, yea something which ended roughly 70 years ago is too old on nation timescale?
According to your argument, is it ok to rob your grandfather, so that your father and you are born in near poverty and judge you by your success today?
No one can deny, Europe has robbed other nations of their prosperity.
As did Asian imperialism. Look at Japan just about 70-years ago.
> No one can deny, Europe has robbed other nations of their prosperity.
No one can deny, Asians and Arabs robbed other nations of their prosperity.
2 wrongs don't make 1 right.
>> No one can deny, Asians and Arabs robbed other nations of their prosperity.
Scale vastly differs. You should be checking how much Europe extracted out of Asia/Africa before bringing Japan into the discussion.
I bet most Europeans are not taught about Europeans atrocities committed in Africa/Asia at school. That's why you are not able to even perceive scale of exploitation correctly. Europeans killed 4 million people deliberately engineering famine in South Asia. Pretty, sure they've removed these things out of their textbooks but feel free to do your own research. These things are less than 100 years old.
Yes, Japan/Europe are both rich today so are those Arab nations too.
What about the countries who they robbed?
Also learned about the 35 million Chinese people the Chinese government killed via famine in a couple year period.
The west has no monopoly on causing suffering.
That they now claim national sovereign status seems immaterial. Thats like saying that it was ok for the Delhi Indians to slaughter the Mewat because they are now the same nation. They weren't then.