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South Sudan

Arguably South Sudan is an attempted correction for a divide-and-rule Colonial era balls-up. They (Christians and animists) took the decision that they'd rather be independent and poverty stricken than mis-ruled and abused by the Islamist government in Khatoum. One can hardly blame them.
 
Childlike Empress said:
South Sudan is just another born-to-fail statelet created by The Empire out of geopolitical reasons, like Kosovo.
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Do the people running the place have any responsibility at all? Are they powerless to make any changes for the better?

Is Sudan "the Empire" of which you speak? It seems to me that a lot of South Sudan's problems are a result of policies from when it was part of Sudan.

Maybe not everything is best understood by your anti-Imperialist paradigm?
 
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Mycroft said:
Do the people running the place have any responsibility at all? Are they powerless to make any changes for the better?

Is Sudan "the Empire" of which you speak? It seems to me that a lot of South Sudan's problems are a result of policies from when it was part of Sudan.

Maybe not everything is best understood by your anti-Imperialist paradigm?
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To some people with a sledge hammer, everything looks like a watermelon ...
 
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China controls that pipeline to Port Sudan. The railway south from Juba was/is built by the company of a German school buddy of the statelet's president.
 
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Okay. Can you make the connection between this and our topic a little more clear for me?

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Mycroft said:
Okay. Can you make the connection between this and our topic a little more clear for me?

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"Our" topic, your majesty, is smearing people criticizing the unjust power structure you seem to be so much in love with, and has nothing to do with the topic of this thread, which is the very young country of South Sudan and its woes, in whose, as always, natural resources are a defining factor.
 
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Childlike Empress said:
"Our" topic, your majesty, is smearing people criticizing the unjust power structure you seem to be so much in love with, and has nothing to do with the topic of this thread, which is the very young country of South Sudan and its woes, in whose, as always, natural resources are a defining factor.
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You gotta help me more than that. Are you saying China is "the Empire"? Germany? Or just anything that's not third world?

I don't necessarily disagree that the power structure is unjust, I'm just unable to tell from your words what you think this power structure is.

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You're again loudly failing to address the topic of this thread with your boring attempts at making it about my view of the world. Take what I gave you (information) as a present and stop those silly attempts at derailing the discussion of the topic, bro.
 
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Childlike Empress said:
You're again loudly failing to address the topic of this thread with your boring attempts at making it about my view of the world. Take what I gave you (information) as a present and stop those silly attempts at derailing the discussion of the topic, bro.
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No. I'm trying to understand what you said on this topic. I don't understand why you should want to make that hard.

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MikeG said:
Arguably South Sudan is an attempted correction for a divide-and-rule Colonial era balls-up. They (Christians and animists) took the decision that they'd rather be independent and poverty stricken than mis-ruled and abused by the Islamist government in Khatoum. One can hardly blame them.
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Fair enough. But the ink wasn't yet dry on the independence, and instead of building up the country, they started a civil war between the two major tribes.

Childlike Empress said:
The railway south from Juba was/is built by the company of a German school buddy of the statelet's president.
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Well it is about high time that Sir Cecil Rhodes' little project comes to completion, don't you think?

And for trade, and thus economy, highways and railways are of utmost importance. South Sudan is land-locked and the Nile is hardly navigable upstream from Juba.
 
Childlike Empress said:
"Our" topic, your majesty, is smearing people criticizing the unjust power structure you seem to be so much in love with, and has nothing to do with the topic of this thread, which is the very young country of South Sudan and its woes, in whose, as always, natural resources are a defining factor.
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The power structure never really thought complete independence was a good idea.
 
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