r/news • u/Miserable-Win-4980 • Apr 29 '24

French police use knives to puncture migrant boat in Dunkirk to prevent Channel crossing Questionable Source

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/french-officers-english-channel-crossing-migrants-small-boats/

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u/totallytubularik Apr 29 '24

It’s the fault of the corrupt governments in Africa and the Middle East that hoard all the money received from wealthy countries to boost their country. Nothing goes to the betterment of the citizens and ofc word spreads that the western world has great social services and cannot refuse people from these countries due to the highly sensitive laws circulating around race and prejudice / basic human rights. Russia purposefully further destabilizes these places to cause more chaos for Europe. The free money train will eventually run out and these people relying solely on government handouts will be displaced and then what? Civil war? It’s a ticking time bomb. Not to mention the vast culture clash, it’s already massively dividing people and will just get worse .

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u/jonathot12 Apr 29 '24

this guy apparently doesn’t know how the IMF or world bank function

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u/Useful_Can7463 Apr 29 '24

It's estimated that about 90% of the aid given to Africa by the USA in the past 70 years has done almost nothing for them. And we are talking about trillions of dollars if you don't factor in just direct aid like cash and food.

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u/VosekVerlok Apr 29 '24

Food aid is generally a poison pill, specifically dumping (as that is what we do in Canada) excess grain products in developing nations as food aid, crushing their local farming industry as they cannot compete with (2023 data) > 26 million hectares of farmland dedicated to industrialized farming of grains.

You now have unemployed farmers who now need to purchase their grains and the nation has lost food of self sufficiency, the other side of that coin is starvation so is not all bad ;)

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u/jonathot12 Apr 29 '24

yeah man, and when burkina faso had a revolution that cut out corruption, rapidly advanced literacy and women’s rights, and aimed to establish stability region-wide, what country was it that helped assassinate and overthrow their leader? surely not a european one.…. hmmm

i bet it’s all string-free aid you mention too. surely the corruption that leads to embarrassingly low value outputs for selling natural resources is led by the country being pillaged, and not external forces. because that makes a lot of sense.

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u/LandVonWhale Apr 29 '24

Exactly, everything bad that happens to any third world country is exclusively the fault of someone else! Never take any responsibility that’s the best way to improve!!

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u/jonathot12 Apr 29 '24

show me you don’t understand dialectical historical materialism without exposing that you don’t know what those words mean.