“Cloak their intentions” indeed behind jewels and staffs in coronation ceremonies, golden carriages and proper British manners and finery you may be familiar with. The word colonization actually means “Military Invasion and Longterm Occupation” and Repression of native citizens on their own soil in what was their own country. To colonize means to invade. It is what we saw Putin do to start the war in the Ukraine. We just don’t apply it to white Western Europeans because they are so “civilized” and “dignified” (by the way, the UK was all Gallic Irish and Scots back in 440 AD before the Anglo-Aryans arrived— please tell your King my Irish ancestors want it back, LOL (sort of.))