@angelastella@social.treehouse.systems
Post #2777960
2026-05-13 12:24 UTC
@madeindex@mastodon.social
It's a thing that has a name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
And yes, the problem these countries face is colonialism, lately under the form of extractivist industrial capitalism. Then they cover up their crimes with all that pseudopolitical bullshit, they cause civil wars and so on.
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@madeindex@mastodon.social 2026-05-13 12:32
@angelastella@social.treehouse.systems Oh wow thank you so much, exactly what I'm thinking about, this will be an amazing read <3 Yeah the external influence in civil wars these days is immense, sometimes even the cause! I was pretty surprised when I first learned that ISIL was in oil production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_production_and_smuggling_in_the_Islamic_State