Just over 30 years ago, in the summer of 1991, President George H.W. Bush touched down in Kyiv to try to tap the brakes on the Soviet Union’s spiraling dissolution. Speaking to the Soviet Ukrainian ...
You can’t have an independent nation without a sovereign mindset of its citizens. A truly independent nation must have well-defined elites that ensure the direction of that nation, both domestically ...
We normally think of colonizers as large countries, and the colonized as smaller and weaker nations. But this is not always the case. Colonization does not require occupation. It merely requires the ...
A generation ago, Christopher Columbus was a hero. No longer. Even my preteen kids can tell you that Columbus’ followers brought disease and death to many New World natives. But as the forerunner of ...
The king of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, apologized in July 2023 for his ancestors’ role in the colonial slave trade. He is not alone in expressing remorse for past wrongs. In 2021, France ...
British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe said on Thursday he was sorry he had offended some people by saying the country had been "colonized by immigrants", after Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined a chorus ...