thecodont, yes the connection to the wider world is clear. The other significance of anti-colonialism is where he has allowed drilling, the countris he has given or loaned money to for drilling and the idea that it’s payback for what the US and the UK did in other countries.
I think D’Souza presented a very valid case. There’s also the part about Lolo going to work for big oil, what she said to him and what happened then. Anti-colonist!
His “anti-colonialism” is emotional and reactionary. He isn’t thinking about technology and cultural exchanges that can lift up the economies and standard of living of all countries. For him it’s “payback time” for the brown- and black-skinned people against their “white oppressors” — never mind that those “oppressors” introduced paved roads, utilities, clean drinking water, a legal system, literacy, industry, better agricultural methods, more food for everyone, etc.