From The Global Graveyards of Growth

How the Death of Colonial Ambitions Leads to Untold Riches

Colonialization From Ocean to Ocean — The Battle Plan to Plunder and Burn a Continent made in Berlin [Without Consent from Those Who Lived There — from Thought and Co.]

Let’s put it this way: while the death of colonialism is celebrated, it usually leads to massive wealth growth for the empire that went abroad to die. The Palestinians are experiencing the unraveling of British colonial collapse, from when the Monarch recklessly handed Israel over really neither the Jews nor the native Palestinians in a clear and decisive manner. Two other places also are experiencing the aftereffects of long, long, and long terms colonial ambitions: Afghanistan known in the West as the “graveyard of empires,” and Africa known as the “heart of darkness.”

But the monolithic and maniacal ambitions of towering empires is a celebration often muted in the lands of conquered, where their global military and economic expansions have “gone to die,” as the brutal costs of decades long campaign has left a trail of misery and theft in the countries now destroyed. Some though, the empire deaths continually result in a rebirth of wealth in the empire builders, as though they were rewarded for stopping. An end to their conquering ambitions renews the conquerors, who are unable and unwilling to make reparations with those they conquered, blinded by a false belief still in their hearts that those they defeated were somehow worthy of colonization they received.