[CW: Death and destruction] How neocolonialism work ( lemmy.ml )

Potatos_are_not_friends , 4 days ago

I can't remember which American jingoism movie it was about Iraq, but it had a scene like this.

The brown people are like, "You Americans are only here to take our oil!"

And the bootlicking soldier was like, "No, we're here to make you rich."

And while it sounds cool at the time, that was a load of BS.

TheControlled , 11 days ago

And then after it's rebuilt, with schools and human rights never seen before, the military trained by the best with the best equipment, they'll fold like a cheap, suit, instantaneously, when rapists and thugs drive in with Toyotas and AKs. Everything got much much worse for the civilians.

The neocoloianialists left, and lost thousands of lives of their own, and their corporate sponsors lost their oil too I guess.

ininewcrow , 11 days ago

And if you don't agree or fight back ... we'll destroy your country some more and make you pay more .... in oil.

kbin_space_program , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

Thats the small minority.

The actual method is through what China is doing with the Belt and Road initiative, what the World Bank, and what European colonial powers did in peacetime.

Get the poor country addicted to updated infrastructure and easy money, then when you need something or they want out to lessen payments as they're on more established, you pull the rug out from under them, unless they agree to some choice terms like giving you small things like minerals rights.

Edit: or They can go to the elite and offer them personal fortunes if theyd only sign off on X resource rights.