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  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    A collection of imperialist states that have decided to share the profits of imperialism, is, by most honest people’s definition, an imperialist state itself.

    Right. Therefore the UN is imperialist. The WHO is imperialist. Caritas is imperialist.

    And of course the EU has mechanisms to enforce ‘anti-imperialism’ on its member states. It doesn’t accept states with slavery, it coordinates sanctions against states that invade other countries, it coordinates sanctions against states it believes are not democratic, it can punish its own members for violating EU law.

    Which EU laws are being violated by France? Which member states are being invaded by France? What fundamental rules of democracy and the rule of law are being broken in France?

    Yes, those are defensive mechanisms the EU has to keep peace among the member states and to support member states in case of an outside threat.

    But the sanctions are not “the EU has enforced sanctions against X” - that’s what the media calls it, sure, but that’s not how the mechanism works at all. The EU creates a resolution, and members states are supposed to comply and include the resolution in their own laws. But there aren’t any enforcement tools for the EU to actually make them - case in point, Orban’s Hungary ignored the sanctions against russia and continued to trade with them. The only thing the EU was able to do was withholding money from them.

    Not a single EU member state protested against the France-led war on Libya which resulted in the violent death of a democratically elected leader and now a failed state full of warlords fighting over the remains while EU-backed and endorsed terror groups (Seriously look into Khalifa Haftar) funnel oil to Europe.

    OK, two things to unpack here.

    1. Khalifa Haftar? So you ARE talking about Opération Harmattan! How in the world is that in any way “EU imperialism”, mate? The 2011 intervention was the UN not EU. Here’s a wiki article about the resolution. 0 members (with famously “imperialist” countries such as Nigeria, Gabon, Colombia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina) voted against. AND it was aimed at Gaddafi’s forces, so no idea about what “violent death of a democratically elected leader” are you talking about.

    2. The EU mostly financially supports the Libyan coast guard, in hopes that it will stem the flow if migrants. Hardly a “terror group”.