> That has been talked about ad nauseam for the past 10 years.
Imperialism goes way more back than 10 years. It probably has been nauseating for some for at least a century.
> Maybe it's time to remember that non-wealthy countries have more culpability for their own conditions than anyone dares to mention?
Sounds like you've made the exact calculus to rank order culpability. I'm very interested to hear how we all can objectively arrive at this conclusion.
Alternatively, you could tell us a state that haven't been at the receiving end of a war, coup, resource exploitation, economic warfare etc. and still managed to screw up their quest for self-determination.
I'm not an expert in histories of those countries, but could you be forgetting a massively bloody military coup in 70s in the name of anticommunism in Argentina, or a history of complete international isolation and 15 years of civil war between Rhodesia and Zimbabwe thanks to British colonialism?
A decade of destabilisation in both countries could have been the straw that broke the camel's back, sure.
Argentina was already out of the rich-countries-club by the time the 70's had come around, and the bloody military coup you reference is likely the inevitable political instability that comes surely after sustained economic instability.
And as for Zimbabwe, the "civil-war" was hardly a destabilising event for the country, and the international isolation was easily evaded, this is well documented. I think Zimbabwe, once the bread basket of Africa as Rhodesia, is a great example of how self-determination might undermine an improperly equipped nation.
Imperialism goes way more back than 10 years. It probably has been nauseating for some for at least a century.
> Maybe it's time to remember that non-wealthy countries have more culpability for their own conditions than anyone dares to mention?
Sounds like you've made the exact calculus to rank order culpability. I'm very interested to hear how we all can objectively arrive at this conclusion.
Alternatively, you could tell us a state that haven't been at the receiving end of a war, coup, resource exploitation, economic warfare etc. and still managed to screw up their quest for self-determination.