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So what is the reason of Germanys success? Or Israels or the UK? Oppression of black people?

• krapp 7y ago
  >So what is the reason of Germanys success? Or Israels or the UK? Oppression of black people? You're pretending that my comment was arguing that oppression of black people is the only reason for any success by any population, which would of course be an absurd and easily refuted claim, when it explicitly argues otherwise, as would be obvious from even a cursory reading of it in good faith. You need to put a bit more effort into constructing your strawmen, this one was mostly hollow.
• AstralStorm 7y ago
  Reason for Germany success were the industries built for war with money and resources taken off others. Combined with reasonable work ethic and being on the right side of USA - Russia debate. (Which included things like Marshall Plan.) For a time, Italy was successful too, but they slipped. Why they slipped I'm not fully clear on. Israel got USA support and investment, including military. That's about it. (You can repeat the same for e.g. South Korea, who are an even bigger success. For now.) UK was a success (for a time) based off a huge empire and consequent innovation needed for war and to adapt for living in weird places, and to look like they own the world and not like a dark smudge of coal. Big cultural exports. And lately it's only holding to its financial industry, boosted by the position of middleman between EU and US. No idea what will happen to it now. They cannot be industrial powerhouse anymore to rival China or Germany.