What, exactly, was gained from this?

nothing good. niggers are the only ones that benefited from colonization

Eternal prestige

>France getting all the literal who colonies

>steel
>Gems
>plants

It was a pointless dick waving excersice.
>HURR
Yeah, no. African colonies NEVER showed a profit for their colonisers, not even the Congo. They were constant money pits.

>Algeria
>Madagascar
>Literal whos
What could he have possibly meant by this?

>Madagascar
That's the literalest who

A bunch of artificially deflated carbon based rocks

>jewish homeland is literally who
kk

See, if these colonies were run by fascists it would have made a lot more sense. Send in a bunch of colonists, incentivize birth rates and development, and we would have had what everyone really wanted, South Africa everywhere. But instead we let it be run by faggot capitalists who just slaughtered natives for rubber for 50 years and it was a big stupid waste of everyone's time and money.

I wish Italy had discovered oil under Libya, i'm sure it would have pushed Benito into sending more settlers and create something like what you described.

>africa
>nation

J U S T

More Christian converts

In the long term it made it easier for migrants to come to Europe, that's it, Colonialism was Europe's biggest mistakes

Kek
>Muh cape to cairo!
Make way for the prussian bull anglo*d

It's a giant island with a ton of crazy wildlife and the biggest population of voodoo practicioners

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So a literal who.

>blobs your map

Try again /pol/tard. This bait is old.

>Yeah, no. African colonies NEVER showed a profit for their colonisers, not even the Congo. They were constant money pits.

user the colonies paid their OWN taxes and the cost to maintain with was INCREDIBLY small. The entire bill to run colonial Malawi was the cost of the street cleaning bill in Glasgow, Scotland. Imperial power gave no shits about the people so they ran things on the absolute BARE minimum.

Also MANY countries made big profits off them on top of their companies as well.

>See, if these colonies were run by fascists it would have made a lot more sense. Send in a bunch of colonists, incentivize birth rates and development, and we would have had what everyone really wanted, South Africa everywhere

The minute you bring in settlers massacres/genocide/pseudo-slavery WILL occur as settlers will feel entitled to everything the colony has including the property and labour/resources of it's natives. Libya and Ethiopia had massacres in it's Italian rule.

Educatio nwas run by Africans with lal the funding delegated towards the natives having to pay it and poorly funded missionaries in the majority of cases, healthcare was thrown to the NGO's/charitable organisation to do that.

Roads were built by private companies using in lot of cases forced labour.

The colonial machine was an efficient one and that is something people fail to recognize, especially the people who try to loos their colonial rule as burden onto themselves and "not worth it".

In the most part, coaling ports. The advent of steamships meant you could transport stuff way faster than you could with older sailing ships, but you needed a near-constant supply of coal, and ships of that era actually lost range compared to earlier sailing ships. So you needed a series of places you knew would be friendly so you could stock up on fuel on your way to and from more important places of the world.

Kinda antisemitic tbhfam

Companies for sure but for the German state for instance each colony was a liabillity (besides Togo)

Many dead boers

The Europeans tried to bring Civilization, Science and Enlightment to spear chuckers living in mudhuts. It didn't work.
Also, Jews.

Diamonds
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers

Just one more thing to hold over Germans.

>They were constant money pits.

Wo why didn't they just let go those colonies?

>Belgium: rubber, cotton, cocoa
>Britain: Suez, Cape, diamonds, platinum, cotton, grain
>Germany: coffee, sisal, gold, rice
>Portugal: rubber, timber, cocoa, coffee
>France: EMPTY FUCKING DESERT AND VIOLENT SANDNIGGERS
The frogs get cucked even when colonizing

>why didn't they just let go those colonies?
They literally all did let them go except for Portugal, who wanted to keep them for prestige more than anything else.

sure, after how many decades and atrocities?

Naive Altruism. The belief in the "White Man's Burden".

Pathological altruism is the main defect of the White Race

After literally less than a century, they were fucking useless. Even Bismarck recognized that colonies are only good for dick waving and offer pretty much no economic benefit. The only tangible good they got out of it was that, in theory, they got an access to raw materials that technically wouldn't be affected by trade embargos if it came to that.
If you're actually serious about researching it try reading Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes from Paul Bairoch, he explains well why 3rd world colonies had nothing to do with the west getting rich.

>3rd world colonies had nothing to do with the west getting rich.

kek

now that the west is losing control of those colonies is that china and other big players are arising.

Let's hope the Chinese tame the feral negroids.

I told you to read Bairoch, he analyzes hard data instead of Maoist memes and propaganda.

South African diamonds.

The west lost control of those colonies in the 1960s you imbecile.

>Jerry

Lacks the star of David on the helmet

No. China's rise began way before its involvement in Africa.

It's nigger propaganda that postulates that non-African countries can't possibly get rich without Africa, despite all data saying that they could and they do. Africa was a money sink.

See:

58 years. not that much. There is still imperialist influence.

indeed. They have always been on top, except for a few centuries when the yurops got lucky.

Well, no. White man's burden argues that colonization was good for the blacks. We're discussing whether colonization was good for the whites, and in the long run it absolutely was not.

The (((propagandists))) are not the blacks.

Except by some rabid SJWs, nobody is saying that the colonization was good for the whites.

whenever you want resources from white people you can say "muh colonialism" and they have to give it to you

No man the looting of Africa meme is way too strong and pushed too hard for this to be true.

It's not just rabid SJWs, it's the left as a whole at this point.

>58 years. not that much. There is still imperialist influence.
This is the point where you move the goalposts so much the definition essentially become meaningless. Like the idiotic communists who argue that Lenin freed the serfs despite serfdom being abolished for 60 years at that point.

In just 60 years look what Poortugal and Spain are looking like. Those that once were "powerful empires". kek.

>Madagascar
>only known for having a bunch of weird looking monkeys, being a potential storage for kikes and a meme from some vidya about pathogens
Is there a more meme country.

Colonization was absolutely good for some of the countries, in particular Britain. They got good money out of South Africa, they controlled the fucking Suez, and if you include other colonies, the Raj was essential to Britain' ascendancy as a power large enough to be able to fuck around in continental Europe.

Portugal was the first and the last to stay in deep Africa, spanning about 500 years.

Prestige was not the main goal.

The goal was real territorial expansion, given that taking land from Spain is not an option and other euros are bullies. Portugal was the first (and only) european country to settle its capital outside Europe (Brazil) until the Rothschilds sponsored the kingdom collapse.

After Brazil, that focus moved to Angola and only stopped thanks to the "moderate rebels" sponsored by US/RU, which then proceeded to turn the region into a communist shitshow.

It was also good for much of the colonies

Portugal and Spain were already backwards shitholes by the 19th century so not sure what your point is. In 1900, Switzerland or Sweden that had no colonies were far superior in living standards and wealth capita to a shithouse like Portugal with a vast colonial empire.

Not for Britain as a whole, just for a handful of diamond and textile merchants living in Britain. The average Briton was still eating dirt.

By your logic Russia should be the best country on Earth considering they're one of the few who kept most of their colonies.

Finland caught up in 100 years without the help of Africa

Colonialism didn't give shit in the long term, Western Countries were just too powerful for their own good

you mean the USA.

No
Colonialism made Spain Portugal, France and Britain (plus piracy and opium trade) great and powerful.

No, I literally mean Russia. Everything from Kazan to Vladivostok has been colonized, those are not the ancestral lands of Russians.
And the USA is a shithole too.

They're doing good if you ever visit them, I can only speak for Portugal which last year has won/achieved:

+ all the european soccer cups (Ronaldo is #1 globally again)
+ the european music awards
+ the europresidency
+ the UN presidency.

Then proceeded to pay all bills in advance (see the news) and had ZERO muslim attacks since over two decades, despite their violence in Europe and the fact we hosted the highest recorded number of tourists per year.

We won't be big and imperial, still we have a really good life around here. Cheers.

This is the saddest thing I've ever read.

colonialism only brought problems to Spain and Portugal in the long term, they didn't start industrialization till the mids 20th century because of it

you can deny it all you want, it's the only explanation as to why the Iberian Peninsula started losing ground to the Scandinavian Peninsula in the 19th century other than Vargposting

>soccer stars are more important than living standards
This is the epitome of a shithole mentality

why do you have to make us look bad in every board

I'm happy to be Portuguese, too.

law as a result

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>Portuegese language option
>Its the brasilian flag
Oh nonononon ahahahaha

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That reminds me, Ethiopia almost joined the Central Powers in 1916 to gain Italian, French, and British bordering territories, but the emperor at the time got coup'd and it didn't pan out

>shitpost about niggers and jews
>say that anyone who criticizes you is reddit

France got the only region of Africa that produces good food. Coincidence?

France got much of the West African coast, Madagascar, and a good port in Djibouti, as well as land to settle in Algeria.

Antifa thug is triggered.

I'm a distributist monarchist but okay

>ywn live in the timeline where Abyssinia allies with Germany and the KARA BOGA against Entente wh*Toids

Do those pebbles represent black people?

my sides

KEK

This so much
Fuck white pypo

Millions of tribals to serve as target practice for your country's violent young men, in preparation for the wars to come.

with colonialism Spain and Portugal got their 15 minutes of fame. Without colonialism they would be as good as any balkan shithole.

>The mighty and legendary Empire of Mali
>Literally Who