[huffmsa]

> Or maybe I'm just seeing things

No, I've always been befuddled by how both the Dutch and Belgian have basically had their colonial reigns of terror handwaved away.

It's likely that neither nation really acknowledges it or has anyone agitating internally for the nation to own up to it. So like you said, they're rich and a bit amoral.

[mercer]

My impression is that we don't even bother to hand-wavy and justify or defend any of it. We just don't care. It happened. It's in the past. And we didn't personally do it.