Strypey on Nostr: "It's not actually normal to invade countries and say they don't exist. *Unless* ...

"It's not actually normal to invade countries and say they don't exist. *Unless* you're a colonizing power."

#TimothySnyder, 2022

https://yalepodcasts.blubrry.net/2022/11/16/16-colonization-extermination-ethnic-cleansing/

Even less normal to sign treaties with countries and say they don't exist. You hear that Rimmer?

Snyder goes on;

"So Europeans constantly invaded countries and said they didn't exist, that's the history of the Americas and Africa, right?"

.. as well as Australia, Aotearoa, and most of the Pacific.

#colonization #TreatyPrinciplesBill