@1_otex Lmao by the time you bridge 10% of them the federal will be gone. If you know how much it costs to build roads or foundations on supposedly dry land here ehh.
This is actual psychosis.
He learned several months ago that dumb has a B when he told someone his brilliant idea for “dumocrats.” This left him a severe narcissistic injury. So he has constructed, through sheer repetition, an alternate reality where “most people don’t know.”
@mykeels Lol, some historians say so. I mean they're probably wrong but it's not entirely impossible. Mythical figures can rise from basically nothing. Look up "John Frum" for example.
Hardly anyone ever thinks of Brazil as a petrostate, even though it has a similar population to Nigeria and produces 2 - 3x the crude oil.
This is because the people of Brazil are more useful to the global economy than the oil beneath them.
"Mineral rich" is not a compliment.
Dangote got special concessions and influenced national policy causing rife poverty . Oil majors pay as much as him while offering better compensation for staff and better CSR than he can ever dream of
@King_Alfreds_II Clearly OP was talking about having intellectuals at the head of the head to provide direction while still being capable of a meaningful threat to the establishment.