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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (49 children)

Can someone show me on a map where "the west" starts?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It's less a geographical or hemispheric distinction, and more a political one.

This page on imperial core is good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Should Greece really be on that list? The only criterion where it's not grayed out is "Awarded Parts of China to Japan", which actually means "signed the Treaty of Versailles after WWI". And unlike many of the other countries that signed it, Greece did not get anything to itself from it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Agree, especially considering how much the EU has screwed over Greece in recent years. Not really an exploiter of global south labor via finance capital, which the US, GB, France, Germany, and the Nordic countries, definitely are.

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