Africa consumes more than $135 billion in aid yearly. That is more than 60 atomic bombs which could be used instead to just put them out of their misery. Why haven't we nuked Africa yet?
Africa consumes more than $135 billion in aid yearly...
Alexander Ramirez
Andrew Sanchez
It is in the interest of everyone else to keep Africa underdeveloped so they can plunder its natural resources. China and France in particular are really keen on this.
Jacob Lopez
Read more about USAID you fucking faggot.
Adrian Lopez
Sage
Really though, read more about USAID before posting shit like this.
>OP might not be able to read
Dylan Martin
Telling me to read something isn't an argument you dummy. Also, why is this such a sensitive topic for you that you had to post twice?
Parker Russell
A lot more money leaves it thrn enters it actually.
Adrian Thomas
This is incredibly fucking stupid as China is investing huge amounts of resources into African infrastructure and development. The Chinese see the potential of investing in African countries but aren't hindered by criticism calling it "imperialist" or "expansionist"
Benjamin Turner
Bad thread and you should feel bad for shitting up this board
Henry Wright
Had colonidstion been allowed to continue after WW2 by the US and USSR Africa would be a paradise up to European stsndards now.
>waah muh niggers
Nolan Edwards
>Had colonidstion been allowed to continue after WW2 by the US and USSR Africa would be a paradise up to European stsndards now.
Not at all.
Chase Green
>Africa consumes more than $135 billion in aid yearly
and nothing about that seems systemic and organised to you?
Zachary Ortiz
I kind of agree with you but not really. The infrastructure built by colonial powers was only there to promote the colonial power over the region. It was relatively minute compared to European infrastructure. I think if Europe pulled away from from Africa in the same way that the US disengaged from Japan we'd be looking at a very different geopolitical environment
Robert Collins
It also happen that they are sending their army there to "protect" their interest.
Hey, you don't invest billions in a country with a high political instability without taking some measures.
First China backed coup in 3...2...1...
Adrian Martinez
because it is imperialist and expansionist, its a colonialist strategy and its economicaly expansionist, its just that today they dont need armies, they just go to the local goverment and give them a deal, they build infrastructure cheap and get resource extraction concessions for decades
and then the workers revolt because they get tired of getting payed and treated like a chinese worker
Ryder James
China has invested for years and they haven't done that yet abd the military numvers un the continent are small. Also chinese soldiers lack experience very much
Brody Smith
How is it though?
Nathan Nguyen
hey you can call it neo-imperialism if it suits you its a clear obvious pattern
its not like they are the first or last to do it
Isaac Adams
Because we are not sociopaths
Thomas Davis
Patronage is not imperialism
William Myers
youre right its totay different, the similarity is coincidental surely
Landon Reyes
Tell me when has China ever pulled a post-independence France in francoafrica
Angel Walker
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Christian Foster
He's right though
With colonies, you have to upkeep in armed forces, government structures, bureaucracy, civil infrastructure etc etc, all to extract a few resources.
Then when something bad happens like a famine because you plant cash crops instead of food or you poison the water with your industry or you smash a rebellion, you are the bad guy for the rest of the world.
If you are just "investing" in the same country, all you have to do is to make sure to local government is happy with you (give them some cash, modern weapons, expensive cars etc.), build up industrial infrastructure and send home resources and profits.
If something bad happens (the same things as above) it's not your problem but the fault of the local evil dictator.
It is so much more profitable than classical imperialism.
Jack Campbell
Ahahaha get a load of this retard.
China isn't "investing in Africa" you fucking half wit. They are actively taking control from the inside. Buying up all businesses and land and propping up African figure heads to do their bidding
I can't believe people are this fucking gullible
Eli Fisher
Chinese investments aren't even that high though. Many countries beat them in total investments on the continent OR on a couple try by country try basis.
Jordan Martin
The Chinese only recently started their takeover in China. Give it 10 years
Ethan Morgan
You forgot about India too. Kwame Nkrumah called it "neo-colonialism" and he was damned right about that. Remember what happened to Joseph Sankara?
>Retard alert
bbc.co.uk
Look up "Joseph Sankara" and "Kwame Nkrumah".
Eli Garcia
China's been investing for decades your. Dumb jackass
Jackson Peterson
>implying
Why don't you stop getting your info from propaganda and actually read up on the issue
mckinsey.com
Christian Wood
>mckinsey
>not propaganda
Kek
Grayson Martin
Because bleeding-heart liberals disapprove of pest control. Africa reavhed European levels of prosperity for Europeans under European rule.
Justin King
>sankara
France
>Nkrumah
CIA
I don't see your point, if anything from the evidence you provided it makes the Chinese look like a more responsible stakeholder than Western powers
Ian Adams
>Africa reavhed European levels of prosperity for Europeans under European rule.
They basically had to basically beg whites to cone to Africa because no one wanted to come
Logan Rivera
>What is South Africa
>What is Namibia
>What is Rhodesia
>What is Algeria
Over 10 million whites came to Africa of their own free will. Educate yourself
Isaac Walker
By giving mass handouts and favouritism.