Europe is quick to denounce Trump’s imperial fantasies while defending its own colonial past and present.
Condemning Trump’s imperial ambitions rings hollow from powers that still rule overseas territories and excuse colonial violence, from Africa to Gaza.
Al Jazeera columnist.
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On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron appeared before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – the annual Alpine gathering of the global elite – to declare that now is “not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism”.
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