Wars are bad because during wars many bad things happen. We are reading that Ukraine’s leader dodged a huge poison pill that could have wiped Ukraine’s economic future for generations: “During the Munich Security Conference, a U.S. Congressional delegation presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a document requesting access to 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral reserves. This proposal was made in the context of U.S. military support for Ukraine. President Zelensky declined to sign the agreement, citing no opportunity to review the document and the absence of explicit security guarantees.”
He will likely review it and sign a version later (does he have an option?). During the Biafra War, Nigeria signed a couple of such and continue to pay for the consequences till today. Sudan is signing versions in its war as we write. There are only 3 countries in this world that can wage wars for 24 months without external support, and they are the US, Russia, and China. Those countries have large industrial capacities, raw materials and inputs that can sustain the production of weapons for years. The UK, Germany, Japan and France will operate but will run out of capacity within 18 months.
So, when you read that our African countries are fighting, pay attention as someone has requested for rights to oil wells, minerals, etc. That is why even when new leaders come, nothing changes because when you see the “agreement”, you become normalized.
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It is an illusion to think the world is fair and balanced. In 2015, Britain finished paying off the debt it incurred to cover the payments to slave owners who lost their slaves due to the abolishment law of 1883. Under that law, Britain took a loan from banks and paid those slave owners immediately, and for more than a century has been paying banks for the loans. Understand that no one compensated the victims (yes the slaves).
Indeed, it is what it is: I wish Ukraine good luck as it goes through this paralysis.
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