>>60903063An armed and uneducated generation raised on war and piracy will not do well in developing the skills to manage more organized nations.
I'm going to get a little brutal and political, but there are all these people who want to talk like 19th-century imperialist conservatives, but there are none anymore. Like Rudyard Kipling types. I think guys like that understood that knowledge of primitive tribal systems and knowing the predictable outcomes is what allowed hired guns to navigate them so easily. That's why South African mercenaries in Executive Outcomes were so effective in these bush wars. But I think some of these new players in Africa like the UAE understand that. The structure of a thirsty young military being ridiculously easy to bribe and a complacent aging dictatorships makes couping for outsiders ridiculously easy.
As Americans we forget that fratricide used to be the common method of determining who rules royalty, tribal or inbred power systems. The definition of royalty in which the line of succession is based on breeding, not talent or public support. Tribal structure and self preservation is our basest instinct. What could possibly go wrong?
There are also people today who want to talk like communists, but are they? There was a movie in the 1930s called The Emperor Jones starring Paul Robeson (who was, essentially, a communist) based on a play by Eugene O'Neil (who wasn't, but hung around them, and was friends with John Reed, the American left-wing journalist who died in Russia during the civil war). It's about an escaped black American prisoner who kills a man in a dice game who flees to a fictional Caribbean nation and sets himself up as emperor with the help of a white businessman and becomes a brutal tyrant. Some read it as a satire of Marcus Garvey, who was a kangz-style black nationalist at the time with various reactionary ideas about returning to Africa, and he denounced the play for implying he was an opportunist and a grifter.