I think it's dangerously reductive to call the Second World War simply a *colonial* War. It was the Last Imperial War, especially in the east. It was also a war that was explicitly fought to end Empire: rhetorically, economically and practically.
@laurijosnellman.bsky.socialInteresting: how on earth is it possible to use #WW2 to criticize #pacifism?
WW2 was a massive colonial war and took place against the background of colonial violence (of which Nazism was an extreme case). Gandhi's campaigns helped to do away with #colonialism. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
theatlantic.com
A New History of World War II
A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire.
