• SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Mostly because all land is claimed by some country or another, and the current occupants could raise enough of an international stink that people come to their defense.

    One might argue that what Russia is doing in Ukraine and Georgia is the modern equivalent of colonialism.