Africa is shit because of the Africans and it's self-evident if you're not working backwards from some vague notion of tabula-rasa style humanist egalitarianism.
Colonization, famine, whatever did not produce the rape statistics in sub-saharan African nations.
The day I learned that, as far as we know, within the known universe the single most rare thing is wood I realized ALL of our petty squabbles and differences are just nil.
We all breathe the same air, drink the same water, live on the same planet. Its not an option we HAVE to do everything we can to help ALL humans cause we are special in this bitch and clearly meant for more than making craters on our incomprehensibly perfect planet that sits just far enough from our sun to give us liquid water but just close enough to not cook us alive. WE CANT EVEN FIND AMEBAS IN THE VAST STRETCHES OF THE COSMOS BUT THERE IS 14 BILLION OF THEM IN YOUR OLD TACO BELL CUP (mom said to throw that out days ago btw)
The issues your describing are real and not made up but are we so bitchmade we arent up to the challenge of fixing it? I grew up learning about a country that kept an entire CITY alive via C-47 airlifts, a feat though IMPOSSIBLE by all the contemporary greatest minds of the time. BTW I HIGHLY reccomend you dig into this topic (Berlin Airlift) if you have time, its seriously up there with the WW1 Christmas truce as one of the single greatest moments in mankinds history.
Actually fuck it, you know what, we will do it live, sit tight kid im about to give ya
The Bullet Points!
>Is June 1948
>Germany look like this
>
>Notice how its split down middle but the capitol is also split between the powers despite being entirely within soviet zone
>Berlin looks like this
>Currency issue (both sides issue their own currency, fucks everything up im VASTLY OVERSIMPLIFYING)
>Stalin blocks roads into West Berlin (reference maps, allied supply convoys needed to make daily trips in to deliver food and fuel cause berlin was bombed tf out)
>100 miles from the allied zone, 36 days of food left, 45 days of coal. Allied troops are surrounded and outnumbered 62-1
>3 Options in from of Truman
> 1. American forces could withdraw but that would signal western democracys are unable to counter soviet aggression
>2. Stay in Berlin until the starving populace forces them out and accepts Soviet rule out of desperation
>3. Send an armed convoy (on the ground, think armored column with supply trucks in center) to open roads, almost guaranteed world war
>Trumans cabinet universally recommends withdrawl
>He famously says (with big brass balls) "We stay in Berlin period!"
>Cant "block" a transport plane, lets do it by air!
>All American generals think this is crazy impossible
>4,000
tons of food and fuel
a day is needed MINIMUM to stop city from collapse
>This translates to 1,300 flights a DAY, every hour more than 50 planes needed to unload its cargo
>Royal air force though its possible, just spent 5 years surviving on half a old loaf of bread
>Under pressure from Truman US generals agreed to try
>First flight begin June 26th
>Soviets threaten to shoot down the planes but thats and act of war, we call their bluff
>Anit aircraft guns stay silent
>Pog, but not enough crew or air planes, pulling air wings from as far as Guam
>Still not enough, 2 weeks in only delivering 1,000 tons a day, a quarter of whats needed
>Sant overstate how perilous this all was
>Single old airport, Tempelhof, WAS A GRASS FIELD that needed patching between landings
>Apartment building blocked the main landing corridor, when coming in your wheels were 17ft from buildings
>BTW they are transporting coal and flower dust, both of which are highly explosive
>Despite shortfalls in delivery the story of this caused morale to soar in Europe
>War time grudges were set aside as blitz survivors in London send care packages to the beleaguered city
>RAF mechanics dident even wait to be called up, en masse they hitched flights in to repair the planes of a city 3 years ago they were bombing
>Germans who used to be hostile to allied pilots who had leveled their citys began to offer free beer as thanks to resting pilots
>Despite all this the chaotic operation wasent meeting quota
>Pentagon fucking ults and casts General William Tuner, a taciturn man who loved him some charts (1000% autistic)
>Under his watch planes took off in PRECISE 3 min intervals 24/7
>Flights would stack in 5 different altitudes in a column formation
>Each plane was unloaded in 30 mins or less
>Brilliant fucker hired German mechanics and just had the manuals translated to German rather than try and teach them english
>His shakeup works on august 4th the airlift hits it goal for the first time, 4,500 tons
>Amid this joy Tuner finds out one pilot is making unauthorized cargo drops
>Pilot Gale Halverson was dropping small handkerchiefs of candy and sweets with an accompanying parachute to the german kids who would gather at the gate of the airport to watch the planes come in
>In a shine of brilliance you dont often see anymore he orders the "candy drops" expanded to ALL pilots and sends Gale Halverson on a press tour back home to show the public what the might of America can be when wielded diplomatically rather than violently
>PR victory was needed because winter was coming, its what the soviets have been stalling for
>It was not a gentle winter either
>Fog was so think there are many, many reports of people working at the airport being forced to crawl lest they be struck by and unseen prop
>Aircraft landed in 0 viability with iced up engines
>They collided midair
>They smashed into mountain ranges
>Exhausted pilots fell asleep at the stick multiple times
>Meteorologists circling high above in b-29s alerted ground control of 15 minute breaks in the weather that would allow flights to get through
>Somehow, they did
>On New Years Eve 1948 Allied forces delivered over 6,000 tons of food and fuel, a new record!
>Stalins strategy had backfired
>Rather than prevent a West German State, he had fueled it
>Far from revealing allied weaknesses, he had allowed them to take the moral high ground
>Demonstrating their commitment and turning Germans from an occupied people into comrades
>The soviets had been outmaneuvered
>On the morning of May 12th 1949 the first roadblocks were removed and American supply convoys once again moved freely into Berlin, that road would never be closed again
>In 15 months of operation the airlift delivered over 2.4 MILLION TONS of food and fuel, saving Berlin from famine
>79 Allied Pilots and aircrew lost their life and the world would never be the same
>Stalin's willingness to starve civilians marked a turning point and united Europe together, convinced such a threat must be checked
>1 month before the end of the Airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formerly signed into being
>1 month AFTER the airlift West Berlin became a independent nation followed by East Berlin
>Europe was split in half
>2 months after that the Soviets test the first atomic bomb
>This marked the beginning of a new kind of war
>One of political influence, fought by great powers over proxy states
>A war of threat and restraint
>One where governments see JUST how far they can push each other without starting a full scale conflict
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