Isnt he part of the government that came into power after coup by the us against Khan?

The Haiti treatment does prove adequate in hindsight. Regardless, the strategy has been winning over hearts in the west, which isnt always the best course of action.

US Empire hands over Al-Tanf base to Al-Qaidyria

Yeah a lot of "greening the desert" headlines are actually about regreening former areas that used to be green like 100-400 years ago. Like large parts of the Sahel were lost to the Sahara, even in like 17th century there were european reports about kingdoms that are now lost to the sands. The Kingdom of Yam is an famous example from ancient egyptian times.

Honestly it depends on the country. Many european kingdoms like Germany, Poland or Great Moravia were more like consolidated tribal confederations at first, so the King was more closer to "first among equals" and only firmly controlled "his" tribal base. In cases like England or Castile where there was massive land redistribution (Reconquista & Norman Conquest) it was closer to what you said. Carolingian Feudalism also worked that way, where aristocrats where more like viceroys or mangers with their lands being "easily" revoked if run afoul of the King - back then most peasants were also free farmers and not serfs.

Absolutism was then the transitional state towards modern capitalist nation states. It saw the rise of like the principles of "the states does things" and territorialization with things like border patrol or the idea of a closed space constituting a country.

“taking resources isn’t a colonial endeavor”

I said only part of it. You know I would have loved to engage in your argument if you did not immediately created a strawman to tear down by yourself.

Yes they did in their brexit episode years back, I think it was something along the lines about the EU "beating greece up" which scared the UK into leaving or something.

AKSHUALLY feudalism would be dynasties renting (defacto owning) land from the king. Kings historically didnt control a lot of land directly. Absolutism which laid the foundation for the modern nation state, was the consoldation of most land in the hand of the king.

Brexit was also very much driven by London profiting massively from financial services, while the rest of the country rotted away. Rural vs Urban, English vs British all were components.

He had enough friends/servants/sycophants.

I know someone who is still using a friend's former accounts, despite that friend going radiosilent and vanishing into a foreign country years ago.

Only part of it. Colonialism needs a Colony to be established. The name comes from ancient times when greeks would leave the metropole (mothercity) and establish cities to trade with the metropole. Though unlike the general understanding of modern colonialism, the ancient greek colonialism never really resulted in an expansion of the metropole - the colonies acted as rival independent powers with only vague cultural kinship. Same with Crustumium which was an early roman colony and would also go to war with rome.

Its closer to just tribute or raiding.

New Mexico is littered with dead bodies. Its basically a Deep State colony. NM political leaders are deeply tied to Epstein.