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You hardly need ancient - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was around when the Baltic Sea froze over solid enough that you could ride a sled from Poland to Sweden straight across. And for long enough that inns made of logs were built on ice where people could eat, drink and spend the night. (In...

How strange that no eco-activist has yet linked the end of Ice Age with carbon footprint and human-generated CO2 emissions. Damn that Ice Age industrial / automotive sector, they didn't use renewable energy, nor drive "clean" electric cars. (Probably didn't check their snow-white privilege...

Oh, absolutely. Eastern Europe had elections, and "democratically"elected parliaments. Supreme Soviet in the USSR, Sejm in Poland (we've kept the name, Sejm literally means parliament). It's just that seats in those were nothing but cushy sinecures for Party comrades, and the parliaments did...

That too, but for the longest time it was the West that set the tone in Africa, divided and conquered ever since (or even before) the Scramble for Africa began, and a lot of the issues Africa faces now can be traced to colonisation / decolonisation.

In other words, "business as usual" in the democratic West.

As an old saying goes, "if you don't know what's this about, it's about money". Impoverished, indebted Africa is easy to keep under thumb by various interests - financial, mining ect. Wealthy one not so much, as it would be in far better position to set more equitable terms, instead of "do as...