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

  1. In other words, as Margaret Thatcher once said, it "ran out of other people's money."
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  2. Good riddance.
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  3. Vietnam is an ex-French colony but ditched French for English upon reforming the economy.
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  4.  @paarmenion3635  <Well French Guiana is the wealthiest region of the entire sub-contient> Only because of French subsidies and the Euro being the local currency as it has little going for it besides that space shuttle-launching station.
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  5.  @Freedmoon44  Quebec is not that rich. <while Louisiana can barely be considered french speaking anymore and is one of the worst states of the USA to be in due to New Orleans, its still relatively decent.> Because all of the French have long assimilated. Louisiana is the 2nd poorest state in the continental US.
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  6.  @krips22  <Which former Spanish or British colony are doing great in Africa? (Yes, let's compare what is comparable; besides, South Africa is a very different case, for obvious reasons) > Botswana (ex-British colony). Equatorial Guinea (ex-Spanish colony) = highest GDP per capita in the continent but 75% of the population is poor and is a functional kleptocracy as the ruling Nguema family controls all of the country's wealth.
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  7. Equatorial Guinea may have one of the highest GDP's per capita in Africa, but 75% of the population is poor and is a functional kleptocracy.
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  8. The external factors just the final nail in the coffin. The internal facts did the most damage.
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  9. Just ask Ethiopia.
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  10. Exactly.
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  11. Good question.
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  12. That doesn't work. And Europe was plagued with conflicts despite the nations being ethnically homogeneous.
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  13.  @rn6312  Like it is in diverse Ethiopia?
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  14. Not really. The Soviet system was corrupt beyond redemption to the point that the only way to reform it was destroy it altogether.
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  15. No. Your own dysfunction and mismanagement did you in.
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  16. They have separate autonomous cantons for themselves.
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  17. But it was PR disaster that exposed the USSR to the outside world and locals.
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  18. The supposed phobia is justified.
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  19. LOL. Gran Colombia was never really a threat as it was disorganized and all but already divided.
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  20. Especially without capitalism, foreign aid or tyranny.
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  21. Hardly.
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  22.  @acacius9903  LOL. The Chinese are just doing to Africa what Europe already did just as Mao planned.
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  23. And why most of its former colonies are dysfunctional and enjoy limited prosperity.
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  24. Ego. And some still don't get along with each other due to past wars.
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  25.  @radomirratkovic9014  There is no such thing as benevolent leaders.
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  26. You tankies sure love to give the USA more credit than warranted for the USSR's collapse.
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  27. That fake economy was never sustainable to begin with. Hence the US and Soviet aid.
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  28. Pretty much.
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  29. Exactly.
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  30. Nope.
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  31. UK got out of that business a long time ago. You mean France with its economic control over West Africa with the CFA franc.
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  32.  @nomecreona3829  The USA is a former British colony. Try again!
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  33. It's Asia's Poland.
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  34. Because Donetsk is part of a country that want nothing to do with Russia.
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  35. In other words, Yugoslavia was personality cult.
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  36.  @nicholasmaximus3412  Except "real" communism has been tried. In Somalia after its one-time Soviet-backed puppet got ousted.
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  37.  @nicholasmaximus3412  Pretty much.
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  38. Ceausescu tried that in Romania only to hasten his own demise.
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  39. Fascism is an offspring of socialism.
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  40. Exactly.
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  41. Bolivar was right in his prediction that Latin America would be doomed as a dysfunctional mess.
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  42.  @kerriwilson7732  Exactly.
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  43.  @tajenoorkhan7217  But in terms of GDP per capita, Brazil is below the DR.
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  44. One problem, though. the USA is not among the top 50 in crime, but Brazil has the 7th highest crime rate in the world.
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  45. And then the economy started failing.
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  46. @Fabio Eduardo His own ego and power-lust did him in.
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