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Originally posted by smooth
The point I'm making is that the two factors, communist forms of government rising up in all these underdeveloped nations rich in resources but not wealth, and old world colonial powers getting their asses handed to them abroad while they were trying to rebuild domesticly post-WW2, are actually linked.
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agreed, but you're stretching to apply this to the US involvement in SE Asia.
supporting an democratic ally who possesses colonies against a communistic upheaval hardly qualifes as colonialistic. especially considering that the expansion of the USSR was the major foreign policy concern of the time.
call me crazy, but in order to be a colonialist... it seems like you'd have to try to establish actual colonies.
the word that describes what you're talking about may not be positive in nature, but it certainly isn't related to colonialism.