Oh my Sweet summer child. Europe's attitude to imperial policies which it is still engaging in is "we may have gotten rich from feeding your children to dogs but a bit of Beethoven at a lavish gala and a few nice words on paper make it all better!" Europe manages to be even less altruistic than the us, who are at least more open about what the cia did for big businesses and willing to admit Slavery existed.
As for "investment" it is basically corporate imperialism which screws over the developing world (and when they protest they typically get slaughtered by death squads). Meanwhile inequality is growing to such an extent that it rivals the gilded age and we are apparently told by some priest caste interpreting a few spreadsheets that the mammon of the numbers decrees we should be grateful for the scraps tossed from the table while the planet undergoes another mass extinction. Look at how neoliberals heaped praise upon praise for jair bolsonaro who will probably commit several genocides and destroy the amazon but because he is pro market they will fawn over him. And here's a question, when the environment comes crashing down, do you think that the political and business elites will care about billions dying from the ecological collapse caused by
their business practices?
Here is neoliberals
Death Squads slaughter indigenous peoples/Local Farmers for the benefits of a few billionaires: PART AND PARCEL OF A FREE MARKET, GET USED TO IT! BE GRATEFUL FOR THE SCRAPS TOSSED FROM THE TABLE!
People protest this: [sobbing] why do you hate the global poor?
Oh man where to even begin...
Yes, 'Investment' is screwing the developing world, so much so... very much so...
Indonesia GDP
Malaysia GDP
It's in the title
Disposable income in China.
And if you have a problem with the numbers sourced from qualified people, then whatever. I couldn't care much, I'm just seeing that these 'neoliberals' people always, ALWAYS hate on in the west always tend to like, bring visible results back home. They are many things, but a priest caste is most definitely not one of them. In fact, I'll reason that they are actually some of the best and brightest people we've ever seen, who's work tend to goes unnoticed because the effects tend to be very gradual in the developed world, but the results very much speak for themselves in the developing world.
Secondly, I never endorsed nor support Bolsonaro, and I have no idea why you bring that up. Almost seems like a Red Herring to me.
Thirdly, the people very much care about the environment, the governments VERY VERY MUCH care about the environment. They care so much this happened.
And that chart's outdated, Nicaragua and Syria joined the climate agreement in 2017 last time I heard. So only the US with Dorito Mussolini is now singularly opposed to the Paris Climate Agreement. You can argue that the climate agreement wouldn't do much, but this very much shows that the 'global elite' who sends 'death squads' or whatever care very much about the environment not crashing down on them.
If this is part and parcel, then I'll gladly take the 'scraps off the table' or whatever. You are just repeating tired political slogans from the 80s and the 90s.
Obsolete thought-process here. The most recent effort by a major European great powers to centralize and make their mark in a forceful, activist way were Nazi Germany (and look what happened) and the Soviet Union. Excluding the Russian Federation, which hasn't gotten to the point of Nazi Germany or USSR but has been engaged in some incredibly suspect acts in recent years.
And don't even get me started on an anti-colonialism rant...
*yawn* try again man.
European states are still nonetheless very much centralized countries, especially so compared to countries like the US and India. And look at what happened to them. They are by far the most prosperous region in the world right now.
And I am from a former colony of a European Power, so I don't think an anti-colonialism rant is warranted, or needed.
EDIT: I screwed up, edited out the Indonesia and Malaysia GDP charts. 1000= 1 Trillion Dollars. The previous chart I used is GDP per capita, which is still a strong indicator of both countries' economies, but It's not GDP. Disposable income in Chinese Yuan.