I was implying that Saintandy666 may have thought these were "guilt" payments, or at least using the idea of colonial guilt as means to justify the payments in his own mind.
My opinion is simply **** em', if they say they don't need it don't give it to the ungrateful idiots. A country with the level of famine, lawlessness and inequality on India's scale doesn't need nuclear weapons or a ****ing space program. It needs to get its priorities right.
How you can say colonialism is "just how it was back in the day" is laughable dune. While the world can seem over PC at times, its difficult to argue that the rules we live by today are of a better "human standard" than 100 years ago. Mistakes have to be made to learn what is right and what is wrong. We wouldn't dream of "colonising" somewhere now, what we called colonising back then is called invasion today, dune. Germany and Poland...Argentina and the Falklands (its sad that we even think we have a claim to them IMO)...Iraq and Kuwait. Its exploitation.