The fingernail of that old gentleman has far more dignity than the scum on the left. These are the true images of the Israeli depravity. They don't belong in the human race at all.
Africa holds 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land, 30% of global mineral reserves, 12% of global oil reserves
And yet the continent imports food.
This is not natural poverty. This is structural poverty,
Democracy only spread because it was the best system for producing compliant trading partners.
A democracy has elections. Elections require parties. Parties require financing. Financing requires capital. Capital has interests. So by design, every democracy in the world has a built-in mechanism that ensures the people with money have disproportionate access to the people with power.
You don’t need to bribe a dictator and hope he stays in power. In a democracy, you just fund both candidates and own the outcome regardless.
This is why US spent the Cold War toppling democracies that elected the wrong people Mossadegh in Iran, Allende in Chile, Lumumba in Congo and replacing them with dictators who were more “stable.” Stable meaning: predictable to capital.
The genius of it is the aesthetics. Democracy looks like self-determination. It has flags and anthems and moving inauguration speeches. People will die for it. But the operating system underneath is remarkably friendly to concentrated wealth arguably more so than overt authoritarianism, which at least makes the power visible.
The most honest political scientists will tell you: what actually spread after 1989 was markets. Democracy was the packaging.
And the packaging worked so well that the people inside it genuinely believe they’re free which is the final, most elegant feature of the system.
A cage you can’t see is the strongest cage ever built.
China proved that a poor, humiliated, colonized people can reclaim their destiny within a generation.
Africa has everything China had and more.
The only missing thing is organized, conscious, disciplined people.