Comments by "lordsneed" (@lordsneed9418) on "Do British Veterans Regret Fighting World War 2?" video.
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@Daniel-tl2ln That's totally false. Europe was already the most technologically advanced, developed place in the world before colonialism, that's how they managed to project force across oceans and continents and conquer huge countries with small numbers of soldiers.
This fact clearly shows that Europe developed due to our own technological and intellectual progress not from colonialism.
Similarly, other countries were already dirt poor and undeveloped before colonialism. Before Europeans arrived they were already places extremely high infant mortality, with a life expectancy of 40, with almost paved roads or railways etc.. Europeans left those countries in a more developed , advanced state than when Europeans arrived. Europeans improved the state of their countries.
For the every person from those countries killed by a European soldier, many more of their lives have been saved by reducing infant mortality in those countries 90% or increasing the life expectancy 30 years all as a result of European technology and medicine being given to them.
So they have nothing to complain about.
They don't feel resentment because they have been wronged by Europeans, they're doing better as a result of their interactions with Europeans than they were doing before, they feel resentment simply because they're not as rich and their countries not as nice to live in as Europeans, even though without European interaction their countries would be even less developed.
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