None of that is unknown to me and none of it is relevant to what I said.
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Nonsense- it is a direct response and refutation of what you said - your assertion that The Wests wealth and power do not derive from state sponsored resource hegemony.
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Australia, New Zealand and Canada simply seized the land of native peoples and eventually became tribute states to the current global hegemon, USA, serving its 5 eyes surveillance/military and banking networks which are purposed to this day in continuing its global resource hegemony. The Wests relative wealth and privilege is absolutely based upon the subjugation of other territories and this continues. While leadership in technology has been important, it is not the sole factor in creating the relative wealth of The West. There is no way the simplistic notion of free markets and enterprise can be isolated from the crucial and overriding factor of nation state military, resource, institutional and protocol capture and control.