Do you think the UK responsible for poor countries being that way?

They colonized half of the world, strip their lands of natural resources and they distablized their governments left open for dictators to grab.

I think the UK should help fixing the countries they ruined.

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Pretzel · 70-79, M

If you look at world history it's always been the powerful ones using the ones less powerful.

the UK doesn't have the bucks it used to
same with the US

Spain, the UK, the US, the Dutch, France - they all hadi their designs on Africa and South America.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if people would stop with the greed?

SomeMichGuy · M

@Pretzel I'm not sure how the US had an land empire in Africa (or South America)...? In fact, the one place in Africa associated with the US (Liberia) was one of two countries which remained free through the "scramble for Africa" by the European powers.

FYI, for Africa, you omitted four of the seven powers: Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Germany (the lattermost so late to the game that some feel that this helped to ignite WWI). [I remember that, in Africa, the Dutch had mostly had settlements/bases in outposts just dotted on the coasts, like much of what the Phoenicians did in the Mediterranean.]