Foreign Aid and Historical Perspectives

We find the crap out of Israel, and it’s our proxy, so it’s our business. Thankfully we can finally get to STOPPING this thing for a few minutes.

And that's a problem. We should end all foreign aid. If we hadn't initiated foreign aid, we wouldn't have to have this discussion.

Isolationism isn’t the solution, bur neither is dipping our hands into every single foreign affair. You’ve referenced before how you wish the British empire had never fallen of withdrawn, that’s America right now. IT’s tyrannical, it shouldn’t be there, but if we pull it out suddenly, it only makes the issue worse. We need to maneuver towards allowing their people to choose, but that cannot be done by simply leaving them alone.

Part of the reason I'm glad the British Empire had never fallen is because if it hadn't, none of this work would even be open for us to do. The British Empire was far from tyrannical, and we wouldn't have humanitarian starvation crises in Africa if they hadn't fallen. An uneducated people can never be free and independent, and the word "educated" is about as far from the average African continent-dweller (certainly not ALL, but MOST) as you can get, because they do not have the four things that have made America (and Britain) great

(1) Christianity

(2) Common law

(3) Private Property

(4) Free Markets

Government, like I've said, is an inherently evil institution, and out of respect for, not ignorance of the needs of, foreigners, I am against government meddling with their lives.

The British were a massive government in the first place, they were the problem a large portion of the time. From the Sepoy Rebellions to the Opium Wars, the British were nearly ALWAYS the bad guys. The collapse of that empire was merely another nail in the coffin of Africa’s growth, but what the British were doing is precisely what we do now: exploit without consent, give a portion back, create bigger issues fighting their resistance, leave, watch the chaos destroy them. I’m very few circumstances am I okay with america colonizing others, and the exact same goes with the British,…  Read more because they were nearly the EXACT same. Africa was largely Christian long before the British colonized them, they just converted far more of them with Holy Wars and forced occupation. They lack education because Europe exploited it and hid basic literature from a large chunk of them, then promised different nations the same land and created a dumpster fire of foreign conflicts, afterwards blaming the very people they ravaged. Africa was RICH for a long time, perhaps the richest man in history, Mansa Musa, was what helped draw Europeans who were previously poor to colonizing or making trade-post empires with Africa.

Unless you count the fact that White, Christian Britain was the First Nation in thousands of years of human existence since Creation to not only question human slavery but to take meaningful action against it, abolishing the Slave Trade throughout the entire Empire in 1807 and banning all slavery, period in 1833 throughout its Empire. It then went through Africa in its colonising expeditions liberating more humane tribes from the savagery of cannibals and slave-driving tribes who oppressed them, hunting down and putting to justice slave traders across the continent and doing everything in its…  Read more power to advance natural rights in Africa. Millions upon millions of human beings were liberated from slavery because of White Christian Great Britain, and would still be languishing in it had the anti-colonialists won their wars against Britain. In addition to this Britain advanced free trade and free institutions, education, roads, Christianity, and many incalculable assets in its colonies. It abolished barbaric and savage practices in the Indian Subcontinent such as widow-burning, wherein widows would be quite literally burned alive before an audience of gleeful spectators to die in the most barbarous and humiliating way; and also kept the fragile peace between sparring religious in the Indian Subcontinent from murdering each other. When it disastrously granted "India" independence in 1946, millions of these heated zealots would murder each other – and even now we see the results of religious persecutions since Britain's humane rule ended. You better thank your lucky stars (or better yet come around and thank God) for the Empire, because it quite literally saved human civilisation itself from the evils of Nazism in World War II, in addition to saving Europe from Napoleon's Evil Regime. You would be, if alive at all, a subject of the Third Reich if not for the British Empire. While it did have it faults (It was at fault in our war of independence), which I do not deny, the British Empire was incontestably a good thing on balance. It brought humanity and civilisation to uneducated peoples across the world. It advanced freedom and dignity across the globe and banished the most horrible Tyrannies from the face of the earth.

For starters, that was Haiti, which abolished the trade of slaves and slavery in its country in 1804. Jefferson made sure to try and strange their nation economically though, but that’s besides the point. The British abolished slavery because nations and areas like Haiti were rebelling, and Britain didn’t want to deal with the revolts, nor did they wish to deal with the widespread protest their government was facing. The French and British only ever banned slavery beforehand inside of their nation upon white residents, instead opting for indentured servitude that was, for Al pract…  Read moreical reasons, the same thing. The British government however cared very little about the moral issues of slavery itself, as shown by a rather common trend of British ships taking ships carrying slaves in their waters, killing the leaders, and often selling those slaves into slavery again to turn a profit in nearby nations or colonies.

Maybe I should have said first "notable" nation because of Haiti, but whatever. Point still stands. Apparently you have no understanding of the British Slave Trade – they didn't abolish it to stop slaves from rebelling, the abolished it because of the diligent efforts of Whig MPs William Wilberforce and Edmund Burke ("The Father of Anglo-American Conservatism") who revealed in the halls of Parliament through fiery speeches the evils of the slave trade and fired all Britain up with moral outrage that led to the destruction of the slave trade. Morality and humanit…  Read morey were the factors of principle behind that decision, but regardless of their intentions – Even IF they abolished slavery purely of selfish motivations, as you claim – the Fact still remains that they did, in fact, abolish it, which incontestably was a good thing, and that that inspired many a colonial expedition into Africa.