AnAfrican

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by AnAfrican 11y ago
Who's oil ? Syria's ? Syria's production is close to Belarus's production and behind Cuba's. And even before its decline it was behind Ukraine's production. It's not a big enough player for anything. Espec
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
GP was saying that stability was probably welcomed. Even the Syrian Government Army could be welcomed after one spends some time with a different militia taking over a place and collecting taxes and enforcing new rules EVERYDAY. Even if som
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
warlords in the DRC vs local government in the DRC. except for outside recognition of legitimacy, the line can be thin. (and it is, since people jump from one to another easily)
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
there's not that much oil to control in Syria
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
I don't have any different sources. I read them differently. You read "the US made plans to make/support relebellion and the sectarian aspect". I read "the Syran regime already has these vulnerabilities that could
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
You'd punish a whole country for the actions of a rebel warlord that the government is actually fighting ?
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
>Without this foreign interference Assad could have crushed the rebellion and the country would be in a more stable situation today. Why are we supporting the side that will divide the population along sectarian lines, against a governme
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
If i'm not mistaken, he also became Disney's biggest individual shareholder.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
And stadiums. and hotels. and presidential palaces. and airports in the middle of nowhere. and presidential palaces in the middle of nowhere. At the end of the day, any method will have its cons.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
I don't know why you're downvoted. I agree a hundred percent. People from stable democracies tends to underestimate how afraid people can be of chaos and how easy it is for some goverment to associate democracy with chaos. When a
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
I bet most multilingual people didn't have to become mulitlingual.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
It's not really clear to me: Are they saying that the jump happened in a large metropolis ? Or that Kinshasa was the first large city in which HIV became an epidemic ?
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
I've always thought the argument was purely political. Any social program is easier to sell in an homogenous country because the opponents wouldn't have the "these people would benefit" argument. Beyond that, I still fai
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
That's very simplistic. Here's a great case : It is often said that the West picked Mobutu over Lumumba because the lattest was seen as a threat to mining interests. Yet Mobutu nationalized the mines, then nationalized and redistr
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
>Rather than electrify the whole country, Ethiopia has concentrated on providing power and transport links to its industrial parks. That tends to be the tough part. Hard choices.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
The Soviets got into those countries after the Nazis. They had no Soviets to get rid of by the time they welcomed the Nazis.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
It would be accurate for Gabon and debatable (but not inaccurate) for Angola. Basically, we think about these blocks: - West Africa - North Africa - East Africa - Southern Africa - Central Africa Now some countries are "on the border
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those areas are much emptier. and I guess the fact SEA is mostly islands doesn't help either.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
Post-Colonial Institutions are the perfect successor of Colonial Administrations. The nature of the beast is often misunderstood. The main horror of colonialism was not foreign control. The main horror of colonialism was its absolute author
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
As a side-note, it's always weird to me to see place like Gabon or Congo called "West Africa". It's clearly on the West Coast but within Africa, the West starts after Cameroon.
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
housing prices going up usually means there is a boom
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by AnAfrican 11y ago
In my country, even legitimate transfers by commercial entities have to be "authorized". The idea is to try to keep some money in our economy but at the end of the day: - the process gets rigged anyway - it's costly to enforc