“Populations of color would have to wait until, under the mandate of the imperial powers, they reached the “maturity” needed for self-government. When would that be? Nobody could say.”
And we still can’t say, other than to note that they still haven’t reached it.
Still, what can be expected from the Atlantic, but leftwad crap?
Yeah, I picked up on that too. The author notes that self-government is good, but he can't bring himself to see that Western society, that which self-governs, is superior to societies "of color" (whatever that means) that have never done so.