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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kenneth Mohammed

Emboldened by Trump, the ‘liberal’ UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses

A group of people in white coats wave small Cuban flags in front of a banner in Spanish that reads 'Thank you Cuba!'
Cuban doctors are greeted in Honduras last year as they arrive on a humanitarian mission. The US secretary of state recently claimed Cuba’s doctors were ‘trafficked’. Photograph: O Sierra/AFP

As Donald Trump rains chaos down upon the US – dismantling the rule of law, trading in rage-fuelled nationalism and bullying the rest of the world – his ideology is now being eagerly imitated not just by the expected rogues of global politics, but by supposed bastions of democracy.

These democracies now wear a mask of civility over that old colonial impulse: to control, divide, exploit.

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