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The West are colonizers and always have been and always will be until the colonialist mindset is uprooted. Gaining independence isn’t enough, because colonialism is a disease that stays long after.

And you do not know history - European expansion was fueled entirely by predations by the Muslim / Arab world which had previously colonized portions of Europe and threatened as far as Vienna. That experience was burned into the European consciousness. Learn history -

No, I'd say the Romans were pretty effective Empire builders before Islam was a thing. And before them the Greeks, Macedonians, Egyptians... Wait, but then there were empires in Africa way before we ever got there, and in Asia too. It's as if greed for discovery and conquest is a human constant.