Bobby Lee considers American colonization of Hawaii to be a sad historical event.

“Oh, colonization. You're right. Colonization, man. Sad. It's so sad.”

Industrial scale imperialism was a unique creation of the West, rather than a universal human practice.

“it's only the West that has created industrial scale imperialism”

Zionism is a racist, colonial, and expansionist project that currently functions as a genocidal ideology.

“Zionism is a racist, colonial, expansionist, brutal, terrorist project, and I'm not saying that because I'm citing the Zionist pioneers who have said this in their early works when they wrote about it explicitly. And I'm not saying it because of my opinion, it's because the evidence is everywhere yo”

Western nations have maintained a 500-year history of imperialist expansion characterized by the violent dispossession of indigenous peoples for the benefit of the ruling class.

“And so for 500 years Europeans have from Magellan on and Captain Cook and the rest of it and whoever crossed, you know, in 1642 and when they discovered the new Fair enough, when the Pilgrim Fathers landed in Maryland or wherever they landed at Plymouth Rock, they said, "This is Zion."”

Tom Peterson views Portuguese rule in Brazil as a textbook example of extractive colonialism focused on exploiting resources.

“And this really is your classic example of what historians of imperialism call kind of extractive colonialism. So, they treat Brazil, the Portuguese, as a massive cash cow. And they are using it for its natural resources of sugar, gold, and coffee.”

Colonialism and the British Empire provided infrastructure and development that ultimately improved living standards and life expectancy compared to pre-colonial conditions.

“The huge leap forwards in for Africa in terms of life expectancy, in terms of the economy, in terms of science and medicine happened when the Europeans were there.”

The United States received a very small percentage of the total slaves transported in the transatlantic trade and provided better conditions for slaves than other global regions.

“The grand total of slaves brought to the future United States was about half the number brought only to Cuba. 472,372 or 3% of the total. The ones who came to the 13 colonies were the lucky ones. In the context of global slavery, getting put on a ship to New Orleans was really a best case scenario.”

The British Empire cannot be reduced to a single motive of greed or the lust to dominate, as it was driven by a complex variety of factors including trade, defense, and humanitarian efforts.

“it seemed to me certainly as far as the British Empire goes to be completely inadequate to describe it as as driven by either the simple lust or dominate uh or or greed”

The Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire is an extraordinary and pivotal moment in world history.

“It's one of the most extraordinary stories in all history. An adventure story, a horror story, a tragedy, but above all, a tale of incredible melodrama. And that is the story that we are telling today on the rest is history.”

The exploitation of indigenous people and the reliance on slave labor were essential logistical elements for survival during the expeditions of the conquistadors.

“Hey Nate, don't [ __ ] laugh. We're talking about a different time period. And they were handy. You can't deny having 2,000 slaves would be handy to get food.”