[lbo-talk] Kees van der Pijl

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 3:54 PM -0400 6/27/03, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>Thus, the shape of the new order that develops in the aftermath of a 
>foreign intervention depends, for the most part, on the local 
>factions, their intersts, agendas, power nd other resources, and 
>abilities to operate in the new geo-political environment.

Sure, but it's still better not to be colonized by Europe and/or the 
USA at all, though.  Japan has done better economically than all 
other Asian nations, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, 
because it never became a Euro/American colony and was subject to the 
fewest malign foreign interventions in the age of colonialism.
-- 
Yoshie

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