>But one thing the world can do for the Big 5 is to try to provide them with military stability. While Pakistan and Tanzania are largely stable (despite Pakistan’s frequent coups), the DRC, Nigeria, and Ethiopia are plagued by near-continuous warfare between fragmented ethnic groups, with the occasional religious movement thrown in.
This is the mindset that caused the rise of the far right. People like this have their heads so far up their asses that they can't see the problems in their own land and need to meddle in others.
“Basket case countries” who “can’t manage themselves” and immediately points fingers at global south countries and goes on to talk about everyone providing military stability…
I would love to be so confident as to write this kind of weird stuff with a straight face.
Exactly, this seems like a fear mongering hit piece bashing mostly African countries.
India already has far more people than these countries he mentioned, and I fail to see how it can be described as a well run country; it has more poor people than the whole of Africa combined.
Initially the Malthusian panic was about a world running out of standing room. When that did not pan out, now it is about a fear of brown/black people multiplying with abandon and overrunning supposedly well run countries. The majority of people who have migrated to, or sought asylum in, Europe in recent years (since the upheavals of the Arab spring) have been middle Eastern, not African.
Yet people persist in promoting a narrative of a supposed invasion of the West by Africans. so much so that its become the main geopolitical issue in the minds of common people there, fanning the flames of extremist far right sentiment.
He does have a point about trade though. More trade and less "aid" will help. Aid is a form of control, and the amounts given are a pittance anyways.