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With the development of the "Industrial Revolution" the need for labor force is replaced by that of raw materials, thus giving boost to imperialism. In the second half of the XIX century the great colonial powers share out the rest of the world, starting the formation of vast colonial empires that cover more than half of the lands above sea-level.
Definitive restitutions on the horizon
On October 19, 2018, just a few weeks ahead of the scheduled delivery of the Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage, the Benin Dialogue Group, formed by some museums of Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Sweden and by some representatives of Nigeria, announced a neocolonial style agreement to loan to Nigeria the treasures looted in 1897 during the conquest of the Benin Kingdom (now Nigeria), so as to not to have to return them effectively.
The end of the Empire
..."Blind obedience to a neoliberal globalist ideology, combined with Trump's damage to friends and enemies alike, has led to European leaders and Middle Eastern allies finding themselves in a precarious situation that risks throwing Europe into chaos in the coming years or even months, with a financial debt crisis also looming more than ever.
Macron, May, Merkel, Netanyahu and MBS will continue to offer resistance and try to hang on; but the writing is evidently on the wall."...
So writes Federico Pieraccini in "The West Is in Disarray, and It Will Only Get Worse" the article that we have decided to propose you about the end of the empire.
Compensations
"Between colonizer and colonized there is room only for forced labor, intimidation, pressure, the police, taxation, theft, rape, compulsory crops, contempt, mistrust, arrogance, self-complacency, swinishness, brainless elites, degraded masses."
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 1955
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