Bully china into buying them drugs

Attached: 1522940894704.jpg (640x793, 86K)

how is enabling free trade and movement "being a dick"
ins't it the opposite? only tariffs and selfish policies are a true dick move
>embrace the Industrial Revolution
but the industrial revolution took much longer to reach spain, only happening in basque country and cataluña as you said

It reached us across the ocean, why did it take so long to reach you Euro-Mexicans?

>what about the european union?
The European Union is complicated. On the outside it appears to be everyone holding hands and singing kumbaya, but at its core, its really to secure Germany through trade and stop them invading France. And last year leaked German defence policy papers outlined a contingency plan for when the the EU collapses.

>how is enabling free trade and movement "being a dick"

In the end this was the goal of the opium wars. Opening the markets of Qing dynasty to the western powers. EU, the continental trade superpower that it is doesn't differ from the late british empire in any other way than having less conspicuous methods of expanding and manipulating trade opportunities. EU handles it by sanctions and regulations, British empire did it with gunboat diplomacy, war and the before mentioned less offensive ways.

Attached: 618b84c7.png (819x827, 17K)

The only relatively good colonial country was probably France. All others were 100% evil or retarded or both.

France was no different to any other colonial empire

>All others were 100% evil or retarded or both.
Business is devoid of morals so it is not wrong to call it evil but the world isn't so Black and white.

Name me one true French colony that isn't total fucking shit. Only one I can think of is Reunion which is okay tier at best.

>Name me one true French colony that isn't total fucking shit
I think he meant good intentions. France was well known for its more peaceful approach to natives, and it might have worked building a great overseas empire. But then France got exhausted by war in Europe and had to sell off a whole lot of their overseas territory.

>good intentions

They were fucking horrible in Haiti, not to mention they massacred people in vientnam and algieria. You can't have 'good intentions' when ruling someone over. Even in New Spain the spanairds treated the Indians like second class citizens, though not as horrible as slavery, haciendas were still neo-fuedalism. he french were no better in the treatment of their subjected people, which I can't blame, you'd lose power otherwise.

I wish that it was Ming fighting the British instead of Qing. It could have been more challenging for the western.

>ignores Haiti

There’s a reason why Haiti had some of the most brutal rebellions cause French people were brutal towards the slaves. If you were a slave in Haiti you were guaranteed to die in less than 5 years.

They are better than Spain

Actually spaniards were the first to study economy.

>Much attention has been drawn to the economic thought of the School of Salamanca by Joseph Schumpeter's History of Economic Analysis (1954). It did not coin, but certainly consolidated, the use of the term School of Salamanca in economics. Schumpeter studied scholastic doctrine in general and Spanish scholastic doctrine in particular, and praised the high level of economic science in Spain in the 16th century. He argued that the School of Salamanca most deserve to be considered the founders of economics as a science. The School did not elaborate a complete doctrine of economics, but they established the first modern economic theories to address the new economic problems that had arisen with the end of the medieval order. Unfortunately, there was no continuation of their work until the end of the 17th century and many of their contributions were forgotten, only to be rediscovered later by others.

It was mostly silver, gold wasn’t that important. America used spanish currency during their first decades of existence.

>how is enabling free trade and movement "being a dick"
the EU only enables free trade between europeans
there are massive tariff barriers to africans exporting cheap food into the EU to protect EU farmers, for example.

>why did it take so long to reach you
hardcore catholic twats arent too fond of technology or progress

>european union?
People don't overtly conquer these days. They just do it through economic subversion. Don't think the world has really changed, people still conflict and struggle, it's just limited and expanded in other directions due to liberal democracy. EU is a pretty oppressive beast.

in the 50'ss france and britain were doing some good ol imperialism on egypt teaming up with israel until daddy USA and the NATOs said "bad boy, stop" and they both took their troops home

Are you stupid?

>The only relatively good colonial country was Germany

Fixed!

Didn't you almost genocide a bunch of groups in Africa?

Attached: 0ab.gif (379x387, 83K)

dont know about germany but belgium was cartoonishly evil

>the most and only merciful and compassionate suzerain you can find in the whole human history.

Attached: 1750BE51-51EC-4724-9F5A-4FCD4D481333.png (247x249, 86K)

Anglos are the ultimate bad guys. World will be a better place once we get rid of them

yeah because you basically failed and even then you still managed to fit a genocide into Namibia

The eternal an*Lo always find a way

Attached: 1488329824644.png (599x578, 29K)