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Not just Africa. For US/Western Europe even their close Eastern European neighbors are seen as a lesser continent to be exploited.
An Austrian colleague kept boasting how his dad made a fortune buying illegally chopped wood from Ukraine.
That pretty much sums up how most of the western countries are wealthy today, by exploiting less fortunate countries.
Like you said, it's a modern form of colonialism except it's done with money instead of bullets.
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Not just Africa. For US/Western Europe even their close Eastern European neighbors are seen as a lesser continent to be exploited.
An Austrian colleague kept boasting how his dad made a fortune buying illegally chopped wood from Ukraine.
That pretty much sums up how most of the western countries are wealthy today, by exploiting less fortunate countries.
Like you said, it's a modern form of colonialism except it's done with money instead of bullets.