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Poland from a Persian Tourist's Perspective [269]
First point, debts are permanent in their case and it'll take forever and a day to pay them back.
Also, they don't have the resourcefulness of Europeans, esp Poles. Poles can work wonders with many things, soups out of nothing sometimes.
Two world wars, don't give me that. If not for America, we'd all be speaking German now.
Africa has suffered AIDS, deprivation, squalor, all manner of tropical diseases, a lack of sanitation, tribal wars, terrorism (Nigeria), famine, drought, gout, ebola, massive in-fighting and brutal debt repayments to name but a few.
Let me introduce you to the EU, Dariusz. Butter mountains, lakes of wine, surpluses galore. Poland is providing the cabbage heaps and vodka reservoirs ;) ;) We have plan B's and C's, they don't. We have tinned food, frozen foods and all manner of other options that they don't have.
Look at the effects of drought, though. Catastrophic! We have a couple of heatwaves (2005) and all manner of people died.
Yes, they were given those things in Norway but did they want to use them? Were they trained? Again, you are imposing your vision and standards on them. Where was the supervision?
OK, look at Gaza. They have HUGE shortages of water. Ask yehudi, even Israel has to import water from Turkey. What are you gonna do without water for production methods? They simply don't have the full set of resources.
I agree on the next point, they are wild. I can't speak for all leaders there as I only know a few. They punt cash away on nonsense and deny the people some stratification in society and basic standards. Where is Africa's equivalent of America's Constitution or Europe's ECHR?
They are stupider in that way, yes. Saudi Arabia, despite its vast wealth, is a THIRD world country, FACT! (I dare you to check it up) Wealth is but one measure. There are 4 more criteria. Africa is lagging behind them even.
I agree and I'm not going to defend what they do. Putting people through tyres and burning them alive was their preferred method of killing. Or stoning just behind that. I read a book also on voodoo and black magic. If my memory serves me correctly, his name was Richard Kellerman. He wrote a book on South African abductions and negotiating ransoms.
As for Saudi Arabia, they have received help but from a self-interested West. Other European corporations have crept in. It won't be long before America turns to Canada anyway. Canada has huge oil reserves. This is why the big union is being proposed between Mexico, the US and them.
Iceland and Greece need major bailouts. There was a proposition last week, an olive branch, but Iceland rejected it. Greece is in hot water and their exit strategy is not entirely clear. They are bankrupt with major changes needed in their infrastructure. African countries go on. Plodding, yes, but not fully bankrupt.
It is not for us to tell them how they should be. Some try to help, like Livingstone. They simply don't have the networks and know-how of the West.