A brutal war since April has left at least 10,000 dead and displaced 6 million but remains a mere footnote on the international agenda.

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    11 months ago

    Weren’t wanted is an understatement. France and the UK were robbing whole Africa dry. Africa would have been extremely developed by now if their population saw some of the money the west was stealing from them.

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      11 months ago

      Well, let’s see how things will be different now that it’s china and russia extracting wealth from them.

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        11 months ago

        Not much, but it’s pretty easy to get the locals riled up to overthrow the current government.

        China might do some minor projects to get them into debt like our IMF has but it won’t amount to much either

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      11 months ago

      France and the UK were robbing whole Africa dry.

      Were robbing? France still controls the currency of like 7 or 8 African nations. America gets most of the blame for foreign meddling but the French never stopped colonialism. Fucking assholes