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This is a case where the Europeans really did frick everything up by drawing arbitrary lines. The Great Lakes and the Congo Basin don't really have anything to do with each other. Look at Goma.

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The border runs right through the middle of the city.

There's this idea, I think probably from the years leading up to WW2, that nobody should ever change a border ever for any reason. Understandable in the 1940s-1950s. But can we come to grips with reality now, please? Bosnia and Kosovo are fricked up because we won't let them just choose a border. This stuff in Congo is even worse. In 2025 imposing borders because that's what eurotrash agreed to in the 1880s.

I'm not a Congo guy, but there's a few things that are really really obvious if you've been reading the news for the last 30 years:

M23 is the Rwandan Army. If there's nothing else you get from it, get this: M23 is the Rwandan Army.

Presumably with help from local people, but that's what it is. Indigenous peoples in grass huts didn't build the tanks and artillery themselves like your professors at Evergreen and Columbia might have suggested. This is war between two countries. Ask somebody from Africa. They don't say "we're trapped by our tribal hatreds and can't stop fighting". They say "those buttholes from the other country are invading".

This stuff is never going to be solved as long as we insist on never changing borders. Really funny how the people who blame everything bad happening in the world on lines drawn by euros are so adamant that we never change them.

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This is a case where the Europeans really did frick everything up by drawing arbitrary lines.

Diversity is strength though. Arbitrary lines increase diversity and force different ethnicities and cultures to learn to love each other.

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I recently read through Dancing in the glory of the monster. Which covers the two Congo wars and more or less kicks off with the end of the Rwandan genocide. A few things I took away from it was Rwanda is basically a second world nation running circles around a bunch of thirdies. Is Kagame a dictator in everything but name? Yeah totally but so is every other country in the region. Did they massacre that church during the second Congo war? Most definitely, and those men should be punished. But that really is ignoring the international community basically ignoring their plight and having one g*mer moment to the hundreds their opponents had done. The only difference was the Rwandans were the ones winning now so THIS specific atrocity is gonna be screamed about even though it was about 2% what their opponents had done.

It's clear neither side is good in the conflict, employing young boys and being brutal to the other while fighting over diamond mines but until you get to the Rwandan atrocities part I was flat out rooting for them even with the writer trying to be as unbiased as possible.

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Rwanda is basically a second world nation running circles around a bunch of thirdies

When the US needs somebody to get something done in that region, they ask Rwanda to do it. And then act all shocked and whine and cry about how they're not perfect.

Is Kagame a dictator in everything but name? Yeah totally but so is every other country in the region.

I like democracy as much as the next guy, but we need to be realistic about this. If the worst thing you can say about him is that he's a dictator, he's better than half the leaders in the world.

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Kagame is a dictator that kills his political opponents but genuinely he's the only leader that looks like he even bothers over there. Some nations simply aren't ready for democracy and he's as good as they'll get.

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I guess they will have to duke it out, then

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They have. Twice. The tiny country has won handily both times

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