This seems so obvious and rude, frankly, but I don’t understand how I am able to sit in my apartment with my own food to make and job to go to when some men, women, and children are living in extreme poverty with no clean drinking water. How did this start and how did it continue to cycle to where we are now?
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Europeans colonized and conquered everywhere else on the planet, then subjugated all those peoples, extracted all the wealth possible from those regions/economies, scorched the Earth as they left.
Then spent all of the time from the end of the colonial era up until now continuing to extract any resources from the “third world” countries that they made third world. The US Gov’t, lobbied by fruit companies, fought innumerable wars in South America toppling legitimate governments and setting up corrupt dictatorships to drive down the prices on bananas. I’m sure there’s a comprehensive wiki article on the “Banana Republics”.
Let’s see. Diamond companies extracting and profiteering on conflict diamonds far war zones in African nations. But wait, why are there so many civil wars in African Nations? Well prior to the colonial era many defferent African ethnicities(?)/cultures lived peacefully together. Then European nations colonized Africa and to ensure their power and prevent retaliation and even to encourage cooperation from local people as the Europeans extracted slaves, they told different cultures each was better and “less”, “savage” than the other, turning long peaceful people against each other to prevent them from uniting against the Europeans and get them to capture and sell each other as slaves instead. Slavery ends, the slave trade dries up, Europeans get out of Dodge and you’ve got civil wars and ethnic cleansing between the demographics that the Europeans turned against each other hundreds of years later. And of course European corporate intrests profiting off of the valuable resources in conflict zones. Watch Blood Diamond for Hollywood it’s pretty decent. Also I’m sure theres a great wiki hole to crawl down about this.
Omar Ghadafi was installed in Libya by the CIA so we could set the prices we wanted on that sweet sweet Libyan oil. It’s a matter of publicly known fact that half his generals were trained at US military academies. Why would a foreign dictator’s army be trained by the US? Because he was OUR dictator. It’s just a miracle that Obama was president when the rebellion against Ghadafi began. Obama told him to step down which is an insanely ethical thing for a us president to do. I gurantee you if George Bush was president at the time we would have been sending troops to support the “legitimately elected democratic leader of Libya” against the “communist hippy terrorist rebels”.
Iraq: wasn’t in too great a shape before but just to make sure we launched a preemptive “defensive invasion”???¿?¿¿ and fucked it up more than Hussein ever could’ve dreamed of. And whadayaknow now Western oil companies own all the rights to all the Iraqi oil 🤷🤷🤷
Watch Vice. Again. It’s Hollywood. But it’s not entirely wrong either.
Google pictures of Iran in the 60s, looked just like America. Now look at it. That’s because the CIA assassinated an Iranian president to install it’s own puppet government… And then failed at that last part leaving it to be taken over by religious extremists.
This is all the POST colonialism/slavery stuff.
Oh! Here’s a good one! Haiti!
The only slaving nation to have a successful slave revolt that ousted the Europeans and left the slaves in charge of the who country. Do you know why it’s cripplingly impoverished now? Because all the western nations including the US punished it economically for over a hundred years for overthrowing the whites. Period.
In short the answer to your question is that we’re as well off as we are because during the colonial era western nations conquered the entire planet and destroyed everything they touched to enrich themselves.
Then after colonialism made Europe/US the richest most powerful countries in the world they all continued to hold down all the others I’m every other way they could and are still doing all of that right now.
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