https://youtube.com/watch?v=CLfwdjvt85U
I was watching this, and one of the things that occurred to me is the doublethink that leftists have about Africa, and really pretty much every other 3rd world shithole. Germs and steel type shit.
Somehow, Africa and other places don't have territory that's amenable to moving goods around and this is one of the main reasons why they're poor. The waterways aren't navigable, you can't create port cities, etc. etc. America though has tons of waterways and that makes it inexpensive to move goods so that's why we're one of the powerhouses (seen this argument like a hundred times from people like Peter Zeihan).
The doublethink is that somehow this is true but the West still managed to pillage and extract trillions of dollars of shit from these places, where, apparently, you can't get shit out of them and move it around.
The truth is that everyone else is just niggers and anyone isn't a fucking retard figures out how to move shit around, including digging entire canals between continents.