[password321]

Most of Africa which mostly hasn't been bombed by the West. Billions of charity investment.

[defrost]

The west and the east are still gutting African resources to this day via a bunch of carrots and sticks that rarely include direct bombing by a Western country or China.

Plenty of western mercenary groups supporting traditional land takeover by corporations, funding radical groups to destabilize effective governments forming or growing in strength is still ongoing.

[extraisland]

Much of this is often hidden from the public. This argument that people should be somehow punished for actions of others that they are unaware of and have very little power over is insane IMO.

[crikeykangaroo]

Apparently, they don't teach history properly in Britain as well! No wonder things aren't going so well.

[churchill]

Charity? I mean, it's an open secret that both sides understand that the bulk of the money sent to African countries isn't supposed to be spent on the people. It's a subsidy/bribe to their developing-world elites to keep them pliable and obedient to basically everything they're told.

It's almost immediately laundered back into London & Paris real estate and Swiss bank accounts.

Wait, you thought Western countries were handing out gibs/NEETbux to African countries just because they feel bad for them?

[extraisland]

You are right the majority of people are indeed mislead about where the money is spent.

How are people supposed to get things right when they are constantly misled by both their governments and intuitions?

[jaggs]

Oh come on, Africa has been absolutely stripped of all its huge commodity, mineral and material wealth by the west for more than a century.

[password321]

Africa is not a unique victim. Plenty of parts of the world have had mass enslavement, wars, genocide, pillaging, colonisation and are on their way up.

Even North Korea is more well developed despite being an isolated communist state run by a mafia.

[rich_sasha]

I recommend reading "the Heart of Darkness" about some pristine unbombed idyllic stretches of the Congo river. Written by a totally English person as well, Joseph Conrad.

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Actually, no, by an immigrant from Poland.

[derelicta]

Western politicians and their capitalist economy required colonialism and imperialism. To this day, Westerners can't stay where they are without meddling in the affairs of others, and then they complain about it. But worry not, the economic development of Africa and Asia will soon render Europe and Amerika into very isolated and uninteresting parts of the world.