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re: history question for the OT: what was so bad about Rhodesia?
Posted on 4/11/23 at 11:52 am to AUstar
Posted on 4/11/23 at 11:52 am to AUstar
quote:then why the frick didn’t the us and Britain help Rhodesia and South Africa out against the commies? It also makes no sense as to why we let the chicoms take over all of Africa currently
Yes, of course. Same in South Africa.
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Posted on 4/11/23 at 4:00 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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then why the frick didn’t the us and Britain help Rhodesia and South Africa out against the commies?
Not only did the US and RSA not help Rhodesia, they sold them out.
When rhodesia wanted to break free of England and declared their UDI England, the US, RSA, UN, etc. denounced it and did not recognize it.
The Rhodesian PM, Ian Smith, was ready to issue voting rights not based on race, but on if you paid taxes (over 1 million blacks did) with his one taxpayer, on vote system.
Kissinger went to the RSA government and said either you start embargoing Rhodesia or we’re going to do the same to you.
Posted on 4/12/23 at 4:39 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
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then why the frick didn’t the us and Britain help Rhodesia and South Africa out against the commies? It also makes no sense as to why we let the chicoms take over all of Africa currently
Because we, in the US, believe strongly in equality; it’s one of our core values. Rhodesia was organized on inequality based on race.
It’s unfortunate, but there is no way to right the wrong that was Rhodesia without turning the country over to a backwards, uncivilized majority. They had to take some giant steps backwards in order to start again the process of evolving. That’s what is happening now, and it might take three or four hundred years.
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