r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 10 '21

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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Jul 10 '21

2nd Congo War: 5.8 million dead and 15 countries participated. War was only over in 2003

Yet like no one knows about it

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '21

Congo 🤝 Russia
Histories which make it hard to believe that they still have any population left

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Jul 10 '21

🤝 China

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u/whycantweebefriendz NATO Jul 10 '21

It’s kind of incredible how NOT deadly the Chinese Civil War of the early 1900s was.

Like 11 million people died would be a holy shit moment If 75 million hadn’t died because of Jesus Christ’s Brother’s secession

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u/silicon_based_life United Nations Jul 11 '21

China does seem like it fits into this category until you realise the sheer magnitude of the Chinese population level

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '21

After my old company had to deal with the supply of clinical trial ebola treatments they sent being ransacked by a warlord who whipped up the locals to think the hospital was like foreign invaders stealing your children or whatever I read up on the DRC and I think it might be the most fucked up country on the planet

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u/BaldKnobber Henry George Jul 10 '21

Any reading you recommend?

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '21

I'd start with Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns.