Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Knowledgia" channel.

  1. Because internal corruption and dysfunction did most of the damage.
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  2. But countries are destroyed from the inside with turmoil, decline and regression and corruption. External forces are just a final nail in the coffin.
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  3. How long has the US existed as an independent country?
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  4. Like the Soviets?
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  5. South America is just a rich man's Africa with more or less the same post-colonial leadership consisting of kleptocrats, oligarchs and megalomaniacal revolutionaries.
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  6. That ran out of Soviet and US money.
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  7. But those places were of no real consequence.
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  8. They're just Spanish in name only.
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  9. @Fabio Eduardo As Venezuela is now officially the poorest country in South America.
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  10. Also high crime.
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  11. But it didn't. Gran Colombia collapsed to personal egos.
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  12.  @tarik6990  Due to the beneficiaries and descendants of the old communist guard in charge.
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  13. Namely Albania and other Soviet client states.
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  14. No. Because Gran Colombia's leaders couldn't keep their own egos and personal ambitions in check.
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  15. But was undone by political infighting.
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  16. And self-serving leadership.
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  17.  @HC-wo2tz  But it has been run into the ground by socialists.
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  18. Socialism birthed fascism.
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  19. <Socialism actually helped the ussr become the second strongest power in the world. > And then it fell as fast as it rose. <And the USSR fell because of corruption not communism.> A feature of communism and central planning. <And after the ussr fell there were polls where people overwhelmingly voted that they were much happier in the USSR> Namely regime bootlicks and the illiterate.
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  20. The CIA didn't exist in Bolivar's time.
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  21. And are better off as independent nations.
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  22. 3:30 Sounds like Africa post-Scramble.
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  23. His ego destroyed it.
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  24. Wrong! Simple answer: personal ego and corruption. Gran Colombia imploded on its own.
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  25. <If I had to go to Brazil I would like to visit the South.> Where the Nazis fled to and found refuge.
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  26. USA defeated Britain. Mexico defeated Spain. And Haiti defeated France.
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  27. But the ego of Bolivar and local elites did it in.
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  28.  @vk6832  Interesting!
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  29. Communism is every bit as imperialistic as capitalism is often accused of being.
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  30. <They strongly supported separatist from Slovenia and Croatia.> That happened to be the most prosperous regions in Yugoslavia and got sick of having their hard-earned money taken away to prop up the poorer regions.
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  31. One of the better-off countries in Central America.
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  32. The African descendants who make up 66% of French Guiana's population?
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  33. Yes you can as Ukraine and the Baltics were forcibly annexed into the USSR.
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  34. Pretty much.
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  35. China with factory-workers. North Korea with manual laborers. Cuba with doctors.
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  36. The US had nothing to do with Gran Colombia collapsing. Internal infighting did it in. The leadership couldn't check their egos.
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  37. Exactly.
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  38. And there's even less to be proud of with being colonized. You just saying that, because you came out on the losing end of it being the colonizer's *****.
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  39. They lost it to the British.
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  40. No. The British didn't have to do anything. Gran Colombia self-destructed on its own.
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  41.  @CcsRespira  Sure indeed. Latin America was never known for having its ---- together or leaders that weren't power-hungry egomaniacs.
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  42. How fitting for Portugal to be the 1st to get the Slave Trade off the ground and be the last to abolish it?
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  43. Simple. They were the final nails in the coffin for a collapsing regime.
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  44.  @bcnmanhattan5022  Look at Asia with China, bot South and North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, etc.
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  45. Plus a declining economy.
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  46. LOL. Cuba, a Spanish colony, was one of the last countries in the Americas to abolish slavery.
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  47. LOL.
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  48. With brute force.
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  49. Like Lenin and Stalin.
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  50. LOL. Why? There is not one single successful ex-French colony to date.
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