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>How would you suggest the UK "stops the small boats"? Instead of financing the wars that create the poverty that these people are fleeing from, use that finan
by boffinAudio 5y ago
>How would you suggest the UK "stops the small boats"?
Instead of financing the wars that create the poverty that these people are fleeing from, use that financing to improve services in their society and create better standards of living.
Its not like the English don't have a long history of colonialism and imperialism to pay for. The debt is due. More should be done to make up the damage done by hundreds of years of exploitation by English lords.
- matthew40 5y agoHanding out cash does not solve any problems. Cf. Afghanistan. You don't just build a modern country or civilization by dropping some helicopter-dollars, that's not how it works. Unless you tell me you want to send doctors, engineers, school teachers, etc, there, to "civilize" them, but i thought you were against colonization ?
- pacija 5y agoWhat do you mean by handing out cash cf. Afganistan? Last I heard Afganistan's billions of cash reserves were seized by USA. You mean handing out Afgani cash to US oligarchs does not solve any problems? I can agree with that.
- matthew40 5y ago"Half a billion dollars of aircraft that flew for about a year. A huge $85 million hotel that never opened, and sits in disrepair. Camouflage uniforms for the Afghan army whose fancy pattern would cost an extra $28 million. A healthcare facility listed as located in the Mediterranean Sea. These are part of a catalog of "waste, fraud and abuse" complaints made against the United States' reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan -- an effort totaling $145 billion over 20 years -- made by the United States' own inspector general into the war. But the in-depth audits detailing these findings have, for the most part, been taken offline at the request of the State Department, citing security concerns." https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/asia/us-afghanistan-spending-waste-intl-cmd/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/asia/us-afghanistan-spend...
- boffinAudio 5y agoYou can't honestly be comparing the heinous wastefulness of an out-of-control military industrial complex' spending, with the civil desire to instead be funding schools and water treatment plants and hospitals and universities, and roads and bridges and clinics and other civil institutions targeted for destruction in the initial hours of the Wests bombing campaigns against the people caught in our targeting reticles...
- matthew40 5y ago
- Veen 5y agoIt's fascinating that you specify "the English". As if the Scottish, French, Spanish, Turkish, and many others don't have a history of colonialism. Plus, your argument seems to imply that English people today must pay for the actions of their ancestors, which is quite a strong claim.
- arethuza 5y agoTo be fair, Scotland did try and be a colonial power - but was incredibly incompetent at it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
- smcl 5y agoIt's kind of interesting that the area is to this day pretty rough, devoid of big settlements and the single reason you can't drive the length of the Americas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap Though to be clear I agree that it was incompetence that scuppered the scheme, reading little snippets on the scheme itself the colonists were woefully ill equipped for the task of creating a settlement.
- arethuza 5y agoMy favourite bit is that the organisation set up to handle the English "bail out" money eventually became RBS which, a few hundred years later ended up requiring yet another epic bailout from the UK government.
- Chris2048 5y agoWhich wars are you talking about?
- boffinAudio 5y agoSomalia, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan .. and now Ukraine. The UK military-industrial oligarchical system has its fingers in all of these heinous pies. Yet the UK social system is not prepared to subject itself to the indignity of a single war refugee finding solace from the Wests' incessant bombing...
- Chris2048 4y agoThe UK is bombing Ukraine?
- boffinAudio 4y agoIt is certainly delivering weapons specifically for the purpose of making Ukraine into a living hell.
- Chris2048 4y agoFor invading forces you mean? The ones making life hell for the native population?