Tell me why most of the World's oil and other resources are concentrated in totalitarian, fascists regimes like Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and others?
Tell me why most of the World's oil and other resources are concentrated in totalitarian, fascists regimes like Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and others?
A close friend of mine is Nigerian. Nigeria was basically devoid of an economy until oil came along.
Oil drastically increased the income of most Nigerians, not all, and not all the same, but MOST benefitted.
My friend is typical, he is well educated, as are his children, and his great grandfather would be shocked at how well off he is economically.
For years, he avoided living in Nigeria because oil money attracted a series of corrupt governments. Today, he's living in Nigeria, and says it's getting better. Corruption is still rampant, but some leaders are making noise about ending the corruption.
What I see from the outside is slightly different. Nigeria no longer JUST sells oil. They have a small but growing non-oil economy. If you go around Africa, you find Nigerians consulting and investing, not entirely in oil.
The thing is, progress is slow. Nigerians aren't Brits or French or Americans, they are a largely tribal society with ancient and deeply rooted values unique to Nigeria. For a solution to work, it must embrace, rather than ignore or shun, local culture.
It's helped that Nigeria has sort of "owned" their corruption, as has the KSA. Once you own it, you can fix it. Venezuela has always the USA preventing them from finding a "Venezuelan solution", which isn't likely to be what works in the USA.
Russia is a special case, when they dumped Communism, neo-liberal criminals rushed in to commit arguably the largest and most spectacular grift in world history, even larger than the Spanish grift of South America.
Tell me why most of the World's oil and other resources are concentrated in totalitarian, fascists regimes like Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and others?
Maybe because the wealth from resources attracts them and gives the winners the power to rule?
So we let the sociopathic fascists have everything ЁЯдФ
I'd rather we didn't, ,but that is what often happens :(
A close friend of mine is Nigerian. Nigeria was basically devoid of an economy until oil came along.
Oil drastically increased the income of most Nigerians, not all, and not all the same, but MOST benefitted.
My friend is typical, he is well educated, as are his children, and his great grandfather would be shocked at how well off he is economically.
For years, he avoided living in Nigeria because oil money attracted a series of corrupt governments. Today, he's living in Nigeria, and says it's getting better. Corruption is still rampant, but some leaders are making noise about ending the corruption.
What I see from the outside is slightly different. Nigeria no longer JUST sells oil. They have a small but growing non-oil economy. If you go around Africa, you find Nigerians consulting and investing, not entirely in oil.
The thing is, progress is slow. Nigerians aren't Brits or French or Americans, they are a largely tribal society with ancient and deeply rooted values unique to Nigeria. For a solution to work, it must embrace, rather than ignore or shun, local culture.
It's helped that Nigeria has sort of "owned" their corruption, as has the KSA. Once you own it, you can fix it. Venezuela has always the USA preventing them from finding a "Venezuelan solution", which isn't likely to be what works in the USA.
Russia is a special case, when they dumped Communism, neo-liberal criminals rushed in to commit arguably the largest and most spectacular grift in world history, even larger than the Spanish grift of South America.
You have it backwards, crime is attracted to easily stolen money
Yes, and we (in this case, the international community) let them have it (Why?)