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2023-09-22 Africa North
Africa's coup epidemic: Has democracy failed the continent?
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Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-22 08:56|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 Yes of course, "democracy" is to blame along with avocados and studded snow tires.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-22 09:05||   2023-09-22 09:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I only blame Africans. Does that make me a bad person?



/sarc
Posted by AlanC 2023-09-22 09:44||   2023-09-22 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Tribal slaughter, it's what they do. It's what they've always done.

THIS.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-09-22 10:07||   2023-09-22 10:07|| Front Page Top

#4 The USA is not a democracy. We have no business promoting such an awful system.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-22 10:09||   2023-09-22 10:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Which continent?
Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-22 11:17||   2023-09-22 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Coups are a sign of the inability to 'bribe all the players'. When the US, USSR CIS, EU and China were throwing money to the winds the graft was so much easier to spread around ...now budgets are tight and the squeeze is on.
Posted by magpie 2023-09-22 11:33||   2023-09-22 11:33|| Front Page Top

#7 What if military juntas are the best they can do? Who are we to go around the world telling other people how to run their countries? What are we supposed to do about it? Colonize them all over again?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-09-22 13:13||   2023-09-22 13:13|| Front Page Top

#8 ^Democracy starts at home.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-22 13:38||   2023-09-22 13:38|| Front Page Top

#9 In Europe, from ancient times through to the Middle Ages, tribes evolved into kingdoms as the biggest and baddest tribal chiefs subjugated other tribes and acquired more territory. I think some of our leaders, particularly in the State Department, don't understand that this process is still underway in many parts of the world and not just Africa. It is arrogant and stupid to interfere in matters we don't understand when we have quite enough problems of our own.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-09-22 13:43||   2023-09-22 13:43|| Front Page Top

#10 ^Abu, you did notice that some human groups are incapable of shedding tribal mentality?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-22 13:49||   2023-09-22 13:49|| Front Page Top

#11  ^ I wouldn't go that far. It's not for me to judge anyway. All I'm saying is that we don't need to stand around wringing our hands and wondering what to do about it. Let them be. Let them sort it for themselves.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-09-22 14:44||   2023-09-22 14:44|| Front Page Top

#12 ^No critisism intended. You just touched on a point that's important to me.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-22 14:51||   2023-09-22 14:51|| Front Page Top

#13 I keep posting this suggestion on Rantburg:

We should check back with them in a thousand years to see if they've become a bit more reasonable.

I'd say the same thing about the whole frickin' planet if I was an advanced extraterrestrial monitoring the place from orbit.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-09-22 15:19||   2023-09-22 15:19|| Front Page Top

#14 ^Extraterrestrials say "permanent quarantine".
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-22 15:25||   2023-09-22 15:25|| Front Page Top

#15 Step #1: Erase all of the boundaries drawn on the maps by the European Colonial Powers; and Step #2: let the Africans sort it all out in twenty years or so...
Posted by magpie 2023-09-22 16:46||   2023-09-22 16:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Why stop with Africa. Delete all eurine made boundaries in the middle east. Let's light this candle.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-22 16:56||   2023-09-22 16:56|| Front Page Top

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