If the UK has to pay reparations, will other countries?

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If the UK is made to pay reparations where will that leave other nations who were or indeed still are involved in slavery?

1. Germany could afford it.
2. It came directly from those who perpetrated and given to the country to the benefit of those who suffered.

Yeah I'd say its different.

@Danajune11 you've been told already that many people view the post WW1 reparations demanded of Germany as a colossal political error with massive unintended consequences for world. So yes I think we (and the French and USA) were wrong in that.

Go back and read my original sentence. The whole sentence, without missing any words.

Thats a good point. Germany have at least been trying to make amends.

The UK hasn't done anything

I did not say it was OK. I actually pointed out that many believe that the reparations paid after WW1 might have been a cause of WW2. I'm trying to be factual. Stating a fact, as a fact, is just that.

Will Armenia receive any reparations?

How about Serbia? Will Ukraine be compensated for the thousands of women sold into slavery?

Who's 'many people?'

Do you mean the posters on here who want to use it as an example of why not to pay reparations.

Do you think that they're possibly a little biased?

Because they don't want to pay reparations

The Washington DC based paper ''The Hill'', have written articles on just this.

There are certain states cough China Cough Russia who benefit from the UK and the Commonwealth coming to blows or facing other division.

I'd say its probably the entire purpose tbh.

I can't find a definitive total value, but looking at various sources, the UK, since independence in 1965, has poured millions (billions?), into, for example, Jamaica. In general assistance, aid, technical, health, education, policing, climate, additionally recently debt relief.

To insist on further financial reparations, for a crime committed more than 200 years ago, is frankly absurd.

Many historians.

Historians actualtl say that a variety of things led to workd war two.

Right Let's look at a different instance of reparations then.

Germany have been paying reparations to Jewish people.

What's your thoughts on that

Indeed. Actual historians.

Objecting to a glib solution that will do more damage than good to the people demanding it is not the same as refusing to acknowledge the wrong done.

You have to have a very poor knowledge of history to not be aware of the role of WW1 reparations leading to WW2.

This is just ridiculous. I think the whole debate is full of bad actors.

You're still benefiting from it today.

My opinion is I think the UK should at least give a long and detailed apology for the hurt they've caused other countries.

Reparations are probably not likely as the UK can't be forced to give them. And will just refuse.

But a detailed apology would go a long way to soothing anger

As I said much earlier Germany paid reparations to Jewish people who had been directly affected by the Holocaust. That happened immediately after WW2. In much the same way as if any individual suffers an injury/loss and sues the individual or organisation that causes that injury.
And, yes, I do understand that the causes of any war are complex, probably because I do have some knowledge of history.

Ah the last recourse of a bully!

Calling someone else mentally ill.

I've reported you.

So are you saying that we'll be so mad about paying reparations we'll all immediately go out and try to get a slave each, or that we'll start WW3?

I would watch the current series of David Olusoga's excellent A House Through Time to see how the humiliation and bankrupting of Germany after WW1 contributed to many young and educated Germans supporting the Nazi party. It is fascinating.

The African slaves transported during the transatlantic slave trade were supplied to the European ship owners by African kingdoms who traded captives from rival kingdoms. They became hugely wealthy on the proceeds. Though they were later colonised by Europeans who stripped this wealth from them.

Yes, this.

I think China should be paying compensation for covid, but how you would even start with that mess, and then it would bankrupt them and they bankroll a lot of US debt so they'd call that in and the US would go under and then probably the whole system collapses and/or we all have to learn Russian.

Plenty around these parts who could get the ball rolling, da?