• theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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    Again, can you maybe read your links? It exclusively gives examples of immortality of the US?

    Also on a diff note:

    It claims that the poverty of the peripheral countries is the result of how they are integrated in the global economic system. Dependency theory derives from the Marxist analysis of economic inequalities within the world’s system of economies, thus, under-development of the periphery is a direct result of development in the centre.

    Which rlly sound like some nationalistic bs from someone who is butthurt from being colonized, doesn’t it? I am sure europeans rowed over to africa in small boats to claim colonies!

    The economic dependency is another fun segment for implying that the smaller countries don’t want the larger one’s investment in return of soft power!

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      Again, can you maybe read your links? It exclusively gives examples of immortality of the US?

      It literally doesn’t, scroll down.

      The economic dependency is another fun segment for implying that the smaller countries don’t want the larger one’s investment in return of soft power!

      The investment is in maintaining systems that keep resources flowing out as cheaply as possible. Yall aren’t sending dictators arms out of the goodness of your hearts.

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          Neocolonialism was used to describe a type of foreign intervention in countries belonging to the Pan-Africanist movement, as well as the Asian–African Conference of Bandung (1955), which led to the Non-Aligned Movement (1961). Neocolonialism was formally defined by the All-African Peoples’ Conference (AAPC) and published in the Resolution on Neo-colonialism. At both the Tunis conference (1960) and the Cairo conference (1961), AAPC described the actions of the French Community of independent states, organised by France, as neocolonial.[39][40]

          The politician Jacques Foccart, the principal adviser for African matters to French presidents Charles de Gaulle (1958–1969) and Georges Pompidou (1969–1974), was the principal proponent of Françafrique.[41]

          The works of Verschave and Beti reported a forty-year, post-independence relationship with France’s former colonial peoples, which featured colonial garrisons in situ and monopolies by French multinational corporations, usually for the exploitation of mineral resources. It was argued that the African leaders with close ties to France—especially during the Soviet–American Cold War (1945–1992)—acted more as agents of French business and geopolitical interests than as the national leaders of sovereign states. Cited examples are Omar Bongo (Gabon), Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Ivory Coast), Gnassingbé Eyadéma (Togo), Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Republic of the Congo), Idriss Déby (Chad), and Hamani Diori (Niger)

          You know the shit your companies pull, say nestle using slave labour in south america, would not fly here?

          Nestle is Swiss.

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              Third heading down, “former colonial powers and Africa”

              Ferero international S.A. is an American company, whiches largest majority owned by Blacrock

              Blackrock owns 4%. The majority of its shares are held by the Swiss. It is headquartered in Switzerland.

              We’re getting in the weeds, the point is that Europe’s actions maintain an incredibly unbalanced trade with Africa; colonialism never ended, it just took on a different form. America does this too.