You seem incapable of copying and pasting AOG, unless it was deliberate.
I said :>
"One of the things 'Progress' is about is an improvement in conditions, by technology, education and other factors, but this 'progress' has *not improved conditions for everyone* to the same extent e.g. Third World compared to Western World. ( why is this mystery rarely discussed ?)
This appears* self evident but did not come about without various reasons.
Colonisation was one of those reasons. Military adventurism was another."
- your reply "It has been discussed many, many times both by laypersons and academics."
So can you tell us the conclusions reached by these mamy.many discussions and who discussed it ?
anotheroldgit :: "Ah, that old chestnut once again, it's all the fault of the west. Take Africa for instance, where would that be if it hadn't been for the West giving them our technology, our education advatages, and our system of government and laws?
Even now after all these years of being free from Colonial rule, and the countless bilions we have ploughed back in, they still cannot supply themselves with clean drinking water, and when they have a well which may be many miles from their village who do you think has the job of collecting it, the women and children"
Ah, selectively trying to put words in another's mouth.
Yes Colonisation and Military Adventurism are two of the MANY reasons.
Take Africa indeed aog, a failed Continent with standards of living way below your stolen, artificially high pampered standard. You do realise/read about/listen to MSM about the dire poverty, internal and proxy wars, brutal repressive regimes, that exist in that continent
that has been subjected to 'mauraders'.
Go read some genuine history, those headlines you relish in the MSM press have indoctrinated you, as they were intended to.