Africa will probably never wake up tbh , sadly 😢

You need more about Ethiopia who always live in myths of not being colonized but it’s the only country in Africa that lives on Aid and loans since long time . What is more colonized state than this . They could’t even payback their debts. What is funny is they say they are growing? What is the definition of growth when you spend money you don’t have

If there is no money to be made, no one will trade.

PUPPETS GOVERNING has allowed the exploration and. Pillaging. The West played a huge part in colonisation Raping Pillaging The Europeans foot on the wealth. The Arabs also steeling gold from the continent.

I'm in Botswana a country of poor people, poor roads,poor health care, poor everything

The question is when will Botswana 🇧🇼 kick these thieves out of my country

The people who illegally accupied south Africa are not settlers they are colonizers

That's why the unification of Africa is going to come against hard resistance from Neocolialist regimes all over the place. God bless Africa

Am akenya. And I see tea export as raw to UK. But if you tell UK to buy value added from africa .they will shy off. They. Extract and destroy the. Land not just mines but pesticides. The. Minute Africa. Stops exports. And find internal value and currency. Value from within a traditional African economic .system. Base on internal value.rational

People don't know. Gaberone is the ancient. Hebron.. yes. This. Was the biblical land 100%black is truth biblical origin.culture..bible KJV Joel 2.& And Joel 3. Not the fake. Isaaerl..up .

Botswana will not be allowed to certify. Diamond and gold. And convert to currency. The colonizer came here to extract for. Himself ..not for Africans or the community..they are imperial.. racist

I guess it’s for African people to correct their history and remove colonial false fabrication history. Abiy First king of Oromo nation over 139 yrs

I always wonder why there’s USA army base in Botswana 😅

Good, I think it's time the west leave Africa to stand on its own.

Botswana native here. I approve this message. Let me sub!

It is my black leaders in BW who are too corrupt now...not putting their feet down ...n.. demand more share from the DeBeers...Debswana Diamond Monopolist ....over latter 30 years.🤑🤑🤑🤑

A lot of industrial diamonds, like the ones used for lasers, tend to be manufactured Diamonds.

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Political system is one thing, cultural faith is another. The West believes in Darwinism, the evilest ideology based on struggle for existence, so people hate each other, and try to dominate each other. therefore winning is everything, beating the others, breaking your opponents' knees is more important than improving yourself. That's why the Americans are in the state of panic right now, because they believe and know their domination has been terminated by China.

Hey Chris, I think a blind spot for Mike may have been analysis of worker struggles throughout the US and the world. If you’re looking for new topics to discuss, I would highly recommend WSWS. They have recently written on the UAW killing the strike of Dakkota auto parts workers and hotel workers striking throughout the US. Worker power is the path to socialism.

The fact that people think Botswana is an ideal in terms of its mining practices is terrible. Africa won’t be free unless these colonialist firms are gone.

They are not socialist countries any longer, they are economic dictatorships against which NO capitalist welfare state democracy has a chance economically !

How The West is Looting Botswana DeBeers & Western Capitalism’s Exploitation of Botswana’s Diamond Wealth medium.com/@hrnews1/how-the-west-is-looting-botswana-a0afdde42044

Great stuff. Peace and love

Because greedy capitalist are never satisfied.

As a ethiopian guy, I dont know why ethiopia join the brics? The ethiopian government plays a dangerous game.

The US doesn't excel in anything meaningful to the nation AT ALL, the nation is being destroyed from within out of corporate greed, not a single true 1st world nation has the domestic problems the US is facing, that says all one needs to know to understand how poorly it has been governed since it's founding. America was never great for all, only great for some

What about October 6,5,4, and on and on for 75 years.

ALL FOREIGNERS MUST LEAVE SOUTH AFRICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE FOR THEM. THIS IS A WARNING EXPECIALLY TÔ THÉ EUROPEANS.

Marxist economists are outpacing liberals ones. That's all.

If the Ethiopians didn’t defeat the Italians in 1886, Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea would have been a one country.

Taiwan, South China Sea, Get out, Xi JP. Get out, CCP.

Tankie nonsense

China is not a socialist country, it's a dictator run country that supports free enterprise.

Check out 1dime podcast about ''Envisioning Socialist Futures: Planning the Economy ''

Ruto the Conman if your watching, this is a fate awaiting Kenya

If i can add something more you may have forgotten to mention, central bank in Ethiopia ia 100% owned by government and no private bank can print money. That may privant an Oligarchy from developing in Ethiopia if the country manages to maintaing good governance. Argentina*s problem is its central bank is privatised as it is in the US or UK.

I use the word enlightenment with purpose; Modern Western enlightenment took place 3-400 years ago and the US contributed practically nothing to it The fall of post Roman Western civilization began 200 years ago and was effectively ruined in the World Wars; US foreign power from beginning to end has been nothing but a post civilization cancer on humanity, it has accomplished great feats in technology but has contributed nothing to Humanity, its Constitution is nothing more than an amalgamation of enlightened philosophy brewed in Europe; it was the last to end slavery in its boarders, and did so bloodily and and incompletely, maintaining criminal work lines, brutal factories and foreign slave supply lines; Even its contribution to capitalism has been nothing more than veiled reactionary neoFeudalism Historically speaking, the Third Reich was a flash in the pan and the US was the fire down below, apart from some innovative footnotes it is nothing more than a devil’s advocate driving Humanity forward

Properly socialized people eagerly consume good advice and obey rational authority Like so many Western problems, treating agriculture as a nonprofit/public service would make things so much easier; There are vast untapped ‘exoeconomic’, to coin a term, opportunities for urban agriculture, alleyway sanitary food waste chicken runs, vertical vegetable farming… Thankfully the oversized footprint of Western civilization represents a tiny fraction of the human population and is set to collapse like a house of cards with elimination of the US$ as reserve currency, nature has a way of dealing with crap like us; We will come around, behind India and Africa in line with the Chinese enlightenment The future of Humans is not so bad as it looks from here, our leadership is over, we don’t have the solutions, all of this is following the East which is good

The kicker is when African country decided not to loan from the IMF the US government get upset and they end up on American bad side. We all know, what happen when a country fall out of favor with the US.

IMF actually did help Ethiopia this time, Ethiopian need to shut there mouth and work hard , help each other ,, that is the more than Dollars !!

Smarts and hearts attached to money become the root of all evil. What the world needs is consultation with hearts that still have wisdom because they still have love. Wisdom does not dwell in the brain only in the heart. "The love of money is the root of all evil." Only a gigantic calamity will either awaken them or wash them away.

Lol.. socialist? China is more capitalistic than the USA. Sweden does not even have a miminum wage

The USA/collective West can only "win" if the rest of the world "losses" (zero sum reality of the globalized world). The group that can divide all others groups, and avoid them from uniting into larger entities, will rule over all the others.If one understands what happened to China during their "Century of Humiliation," means that one then already has the template to understand what is happening today. One can use the historical "template" and apply it in the same manner. *What happened to China during that era, is how "divide and rule" worked in the past, and still works today.* Create or deepen a political problem, and then wait for the little minions benefiting from the outside POWER of imperialism to come asking for "help." Use their "plight" (artificially enhanced) to meddle, or "leverage" (power dynamics) crises into "eternal problems," sit by and do nothing as problems foment into violence, revolutions, and wars, or carry out other forms of privatized interference (corporatism) under government protection, or without. Whatever works, details really REALLY DON'T MATTER. Once "fomented troubles" rise out of hand, claim to "just want peace." Then use the little minions as favourites *(favouritism = a technique within the "divide and rule" strategy of power)* to destabilize an entire region, steer them against other weaker entities, and/or employ them as instruments of power (the "tools" of power dynamics), or create overseas regions as a staging area far from the home base (the "unsinkable aircraft carriers"/like colonial-era Hong Kong), etc. *Whatever works for the desired region to be divided/conquered or where CONTROL and domination is required for the economic systems of gain.* _There is no way that current day Chinese leaders will not have learnt their very own historical lesson, and allow their very own history to repeat/rhyme, and allow such outside meddling in the own systems to gain traction, AGAIN for a second time._ *Every nation or state has its own "Never again!"* European citizens today are still suffering from the hegemonial ambitions of some of their leaders, teaming up with Washington DC/the Pentagon. These citizens, usually around 50% of entire populations, suffer directly ("heating or eating"), or indirectly (soaring inflation), these are all "effects," not to be confused with "causes" (see concept of _retro causality,_ one of the most easily misused ways to skew a timeline of events). Some eventually even end up in the muddy trenches. Read Washington chief strategist Brzinzki's "grand plan", or Mackinder before that (1904). The aim was always to drive a rift between Europeans, *to avoid greater European/Eurasian (geographically incl. the ME)* co-operation and trade. Once that has been achieved, keep all the little minions "down," and grow off their weaknesses in the zero-sum reality of the temporary status quo. Note that "resources" cannot be produced with the snap of a finger. Creating new resources, are long-term effects of strategies, steered by the same powers. It is the CONTROL these control freaks want and steer towards, using their (temporary) GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION of POWER. With re. to how tools are used: Robert Dickson Crane served as foreign policy advisor to President Richard Nixon from 1963 to 1968: "At that time I had read a little about Islam, because I thought Islam would be the strongest and most durable ally of the United States against Communism. Because both of us, Nixon and I, saw Communism as a world threat ..." Note how they openly admit how they use "tools" (strategy) to "steer" (plan) against others, when it is useful to themselves. *Note also, that a "plan" and the strategy to effect the plan, are two different things.* Note also how *your* "enemies today," as a collective (Islam) were the systemic "good guys" in a different past. They were the "good guys" because they (Muslims as a collective) were useful at the time, as the USA implemented, to goad the SU into invading Afghanistan, where they could then be "combatted by proxy" similar to the Ukraine post-2022 and today, and there is MORE than sufficient evidence for this. Outsiders intent on playing the game, use the revolutionary spirit, in order to hop onto useful dissent, strengthen it, and insert levers which they can pry open to gain own advantages. Beijing is certainly 100% aware of this, so everything you are witnessing today is a political EFFECT, not a political "cause" as some leaders wish to mislead us towards. Everything you are being told about Berlin, in stages after 1894, 1904, 1907, and 1912, with gathering momentum, were EFFECTS, not CAUSES. That was, based on observation, outside powers with the intention to "divide and rule" Europe, by encroaching/encircling the major continental power, which has never changed throughout recent modern history. The ONLY factor which changed over the last few centuries, was the "major continental power" which had to be CONTROLLED by the outside power who wanted a competitive advantage. The historical parallel, is the "Chinese Century of Shame"-historicity, and is well-known at least to the 1.4 billion inhabitants of China today. Certainly, they also do not wish to become "carved up" and ruled over by outsiders again, for a second time. The template therefore predicts a similar outcome, that of *the more encroachment/encirclement, the more likeliness of the "breakout attempt"* in some possible future. *Obvious solution for a more stable world, stop the encroachment/encirclement.* Both historically (post-1900) as well as our recent history (post-2000) there seems little incentive for those with the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE to do so, but rather the repeated attempts to search for tools to do such encroachment/encirclement FOR the outside power/s intent on gain. Empires do not become dominant because they hand out candy and bouquets of flowers, as most realists are fully aware of, therefore the wise advice to always keep a just/wise "balance of powers. If not, fail. Power flows to where the attention goes first, in geopolitics, in the form of political policies. These can be studied by looking at the *events* themselves, not what another human being tells you (incl. this essay, which doesn't tell you anything, but implores you to start focusing on the well-known events themselves, from which one can then infer the underlying hidden policies, strategies, or objectives). If you live in East Asia, beware of the "dividers". The hawks will come looking for "buck catchers" and the doves will disguise it as the "helping friends"-narrative = i.e. the template of modern western imperialism. Hawks and doves working in close unison, although stated as being opposite poles. They WILL come to you, same way as they came to the Ukraine, following the 1990s.

no points arguing, the homeless romantic is right. Animal agriculture is not sustainable. Were all just hipocrites using retarded capitalist pricing of meat, which should be 10x as expensive, as it is now.

They might be centrally controlled, but they are free markets

More carbon emissions = more intelligence