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Originally Posted by biguc
Bengal Subah was produced 12% of global economic output before the British got their hands on it. It takes time to come back from having your economy decimated and millions of your people starved to death. Look at the mess you've left in Mesopotamia. You slimy Europeans can try to wash your hands of it, but you're the ones who left your mess everywhere. Show a little responsibility.
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How long until you can stop making excuses? 100 years? 1,000?
It's getting old. And thinking about colonialism as only negative means you probably know nothing about colonialism.
I would take colonialism over what was previously the course of empires; complete and utter domination and integration into their empires.
But let's ignore all of human civilized history because we can blame Europeans for current problems!