Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recently made some bold claims about the United States’ actions following Georgia’s recent parliamentary elections. According to Maduro, the U.S. has been interfering in the country’s internal politics in a way he believes is reminiscent of colonial powers of the past. Here’s what happened: In Georgia,
India’s Foreign Minister, S. Jaishankar, recently spoke at the 2024 NDTV World Summit, offering some powerful insights into how global power dynamics are shifting. According to Jaishankar, the world is no longer dominated by just a few Western countries. Instead, non-Western nations like India and China are rising in influence,
Colonial exploitation included heritage theft, in which India’s wealth of heritage, antiquities, and artifacts were exported to the colonizers’ home bases. They shamelessly adorned their own museums and galleries with these treasures, and this practice continues unabated to this day. The whole idea of establishing a colony was to exploit
Ceri-Anne Fidler, in her doctoral thesis, describes how food was used to oppress Indian sailors on colonial ships. “The lascar was always sallow. It didn’t helpthat his name anagrammed rascal. He carrieda whiff of scurvy, a hint of rats in the hold,hulls battered by typhoons.” These words from a poem
Colonial powers take advantage of people they perceive to be weak and subservient in the name of sanctions, geopolitical interests, or the alleged “rules-based order.” This is colonialism 2.0 and how the US and UK take what they want from lesser powers.
