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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/
by xantronix 5mo ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893...
If that's not colonialism, I don't know what is.
- myrmidon 5mo agoColonialism in Congo would be controlling the local government, administrating/allocating mining workers and extracting raw material against the will of the local population. "Buying stuff from poor countries" is not colonialism.