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On that we agree. Unfortunately, some local leaders, exploiting that fear to the colonial dictates become their own neo-colonial power. They become the personification of the rapacious empire they teach people to fear.

Worse yet, they present some empires as evil, while others are presented as benevolent. There is no difference between the USA, France, or Great Britain and China, Russia, Iran, Turkey or Syria when it comes to economic interest and exploitation. Ideology is just the façade and it is very sad when political groups in a historically exploited culture serve the purpose of the colonial powers (right or left).