• huppakee@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Yes, western countries never built hospitals. You are totally right.

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      5 days ago

      I’m sure the guy who believes Adrian Zenz’s bullshit knows more than all the global south countries which country has helped build infrastructure there

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      In Africa? That is actually correct. Western countries do not build hospitals in Africa. The most they do is build pharmaceutical production facilities that are later bombed by their airplanes.

      The West only built hospitals in Africa before WWI when they were treating the continent as full-blown colonies. The hospitals were built in colonial trade centers for colonists, not for the indigenous people. Neocolonialism does not partake in this practice, it is premised on neoliberalism. It, at most, issues debt with anti-worker and anti-sovereignty strings attached that ends up damaging thr country’s infrastructure further. It is important to understand that the OECD countries do not, generally speaking, operate by capital investment in infrastructure of imperialized countries. They are parasitic.