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To: dfwgator

“Were the French “invited” into Algeria?”

While I agree that the history in Algeria doesn’t help matters, Sweden has similar problems with their new arrivals, but has ZERO history of colonialism.

By the way, unlike other colonies, North African colonies were created less for exploitation but far more because the Mediterranean was infested with pirates from that area (oil came much later). We even had to send the boys to Libya, which is still referred to in the Marines Hymm.


6 posted on 07/04/2023 6:49:57 AM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: BobL
While I agree that the history in Algeria doesn’t help matters, Sweden has similar problems with their new arrivals, but has ZERO history of colonialism.

Yep, that's the head-scratcher for me.

12 posted on 07/04/2023 6:58:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BobL

“Zero?” I think not. Including New Sweden in Delaware/Pennsylvania. It would appear they just weren’t very good at it, since they kept losing or seeking what they gothttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies.


34 posted on 07/04/2023 7:47:39 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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