Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danelawdave 1/2 I'm not offering a defence, simply pointing out that there has been significant imperial expansion since the 19th century (I could also have instanced Italy, Germany and Japan, and indeed the EU, the continuation of Germany by other means.... — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah ‘Most’. I think you’re clutching at straws if your defence is communist China. I disagree on Taiwan.

Posted Aug. 25, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @danelawdave The expansion of Soviet rather than Russian power after 1941 (the Russian Empire lost significant territory after 1914-1918) was a response to attack. In return for what it thought were guarantees, Moscow then withdrew from vast areas of Europe and Asia. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Most countries stopped imperialist territorial expansionism in the 19th century. Russia will never stop unless stopped.

Posted Aug. 25, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danelawdave 2/2 But of course Italy and Japan were defeated and driven out of their conquests, as was Hitler. And you would probably argue that the EU is not an empire, or German-dominated, because people do that. So I came up with an unquestionable, major exception. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah ‘Most’. I think you’re clutching at straws if your defence is communist China. I disagree on Taiwan.

Posted Aug. 25, 2022