Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The New Tourist" channel.

  1.  @flintb6559  The USA send megatons of food to Africa over the years. As a younger man in the '70s and '80s, it looked like Soviet Communist tyranny trying to extend its power. It was easy to see the USA as the good guys. It was even easy to turn a blind eye to assassinations and coups that BOTH the USA and USSR were engineering in the region, for the upper hand in the Cold War. Looking back, I feel like the leadership of both nations was more keen on winning than on morality. They both felt their ideology was so superior that anything they did in its furtherance was, by definition, a good thing. That mentality was punished in the USSR by their fall. I think that mentality is why the West is failing, today. Now, an old man, I see how Western hegemony managed to extract many resources from Africa, without ever bring true liberty and prosperity to Africa. It was easier to deal with despots who gave us what we wanted at the point of a gun. I'm not sure the Russian influence is necessarily a good thing, but I know that the USA's influence is toxic. Our intel and military are stilly playing dirty tricks and engineering coups to this day. That's not America. That's ruling-class elites.
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  2. Why? Because the country's leaders can skim millions off the top of any foreign aid. China does the same thing in the USA, because elected officials in the USA are so corrupt.
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  3. They've still got a long way to go. But waking up to the shenanigans of the West is an important first step. There will be others lining up to exploit African resources if they succeed in ridding themselves of Western parasites. I think that financial and military aid is also a form of meddling in internal affairs of a country. This is how foreign nations exploit African nations. All they have to do is bribe one or two top people, and that nation starts doing the bidding of the foreign country, and keeping the people down becomes POLICY, to help keep the corrupt leaders in control. It's still unstable, because the vast majority of the people know they're being cheated. But from an exploiter's point of view, the setup is very stable. They just bribe the next leader. Heck, he's probably already on their payroll! When a leader starts getting "uppity," they pull their support and start funding rebels! Very easy to overthrow a government that's obviously cheating its citizens! It's a story as old as nations. Over time, the Roulette Wheel of Leadership comes up "enlightened" and I see African countries making great strides in short periods of time. They can turn things around in a hurry, if the rest of the world will let them, but the rest of the world rarely does. The best leaders don't last long enough, and there aren't enough of them at the same time. But I think progress is slowly being made. You see some needed infrastructure going up, here and there. Canals, highways, rail systems, dams, ... Africa presents some unique engineering challenges, but is rich in people and resources. I think China sees the potential. I think they're pretty predatory, but at the same time, I think Belt and Road could benefit everyone.
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  4. Refuse all foreign aid and build smart. There are (mostly) geographical obstacles to overcome. But direct foreign aid, government to government, is nothing but a corrupting influence, propping up all the worst actors. African people are great. But they can't just be falling for the guy with the most (foreign) money in his pockets. Honest government and sky's the limit for Africa, and it's long overdue.
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  5. About time the French got the boot in the region.
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  6. My gold ETF went up 6% in the past month.
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