• diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s wild how out of touch the EU sounds here. Why would these countries care more about a milquetoast condemnation in a conflict happening across the globe (and that doesn’t involve any parties at the summit) than they would care about their own material conditions?

    Of course they want slavery and colonialism to be recognized!

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      Not to mention even this part:

      While the 27-nation EU wanted the summit to foocus on new economic initiatives and closer cooperation to stave off surging Chinese influence in the region

      So even the non-warmongering part of EU propositions is to completely openly demand that LatAm abandons the important (and growing) trade partner just to remain colonised. LatAm leaders fortunately understood that, since right after that we have:

      several leaders of the 33-nation Community of Latin American and Caribbean States brought century-old recriminations over colonialism and slavery to the table.

      What EU and their press dogs didn’t even notice is the connection between the two parts, and that the issue is not a “century-old”, it’s direct response to their propositions.