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It sound alike you already know the answer to your question.
If you ask me, though, I don't see why it's not possible for grave suffering to exist in multiple places simultaneously.
Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
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#32At which point we admit that current approaches to helping these countries does nothing and we reach out for other, radical, approaches and ideas?
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The [social] media battle is terrible unbalanced and fights for your focus.
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#34Ah yes, blame the lack of rulers and not colonialism or war.
If anything I’d blame the lack of colonialism as being the root cause of their problems.
Are you perhaps assuming they have no chance of learning to govern themselves peacefully?
I don't subscribe to this fixed mindset. I believe all peoples can learn to do well. It's hard, but possible. So the lack of conolialism isn't the answer, but lack of learning.
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#35Ah yes, blame the lack of rulers and not colonialism or war.
They have been independent since 1956. Other (majority non-European) British colonies/protectorates as diverse as Singapore (ind. 1965), Belize (ind. 1981), India (ind. 1947) and UAE (ind. 1971) managed to build peaceful societies. We need to recognize that the people of countries like Sudan are not children who don't know any better, contrary to European leftists' views. They are fully functioning adults who made a…
On gaining independence in 1956 Sudan endured two civil wars with up to a million deaths in the first civil war and between one and two million deaths in the second civil war.
Colonial governments like the British often (almost always) left a mess behind them.
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> Truth is Sudan has been at war since it was decolonized in the 1950s There have been internal conflicts, but nothing at the scale of the 2023 Civil War. > I suspect all the aid and help over the decades has really just prolonged things It's being fueled by the proxy war between Iran, UAE, KSA, Egypt, and Ethiopia.
Don’t forget Wagner (Russia) is in the mix.