Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "The PROBLEM with OVERSEAS FRANCE (the remains of the Empire) - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@Ibrahim Özgür Sucu "This channel is run by Brits" - nope, the channel is Spanish. VisualPolitik EN is just the English language version of the main Spanish VisualPolitik channel. The presenters here don't write the script, they're simply repeating what the Spanish version says.
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How much of that GDP per capita is due to subsidies and welfare from Paris, versus the production of the actual local economy?
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@compassroses Australia and Canada weren't just colonized, they were settled. They're practically keeping in touch with their own people living abroad when it comes to them (and many of the others). Very different from places that aren't so Anglo
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@Goodmans93 That's what independence means sure, but that isn't what reparations means. He mentioned both in his comment.
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@Goodmans93 Lol sure. Try telling that to a divorce court when they order you to pay settlement or alimony, see how convincing they find it. You don't get to drain people dry and then just walk away like it was nothing.
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Rather than territory what Putin would really like is for France to take control of NATO and fully Europeanize it, which would mean kicking the Americans out. Don't need no more buffer space as long as America is far away.
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@oo--7714 Britain uses its overseas territories to facilitate tax evasion, France to grow bananas. Britains' overseas territories grew rich by helping to steal money from other nations, while Frances' territories are poorer but at least far more honest.
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@hmmkin6729 "rich developed daddy who develops the place" - he doesn't develop the place, he just sends money. The economies of these territories are still as basic as ever, they just get generous subsidies and access to the European market. That isn't development, that's just being indulged by a sugar daddy.
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