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cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5938935
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/sleekpaprika69 on 2025-05-29 01:09:43+00:00.
Foreign loans means they were being fucked by Empire. This is colonialism.
Nobody was arguing that colonialism didn’t play a part, even though the article does mention that the loans had pretty favourable terms.
Loans are exploitive by definition.
What these countries need is reparations, a transfer of wealth from all that was stolen from them.
I mean aren’t those countries made up by the former colonialists, they should probably be paying the og natives