Lately I saw this Article on a reactionary subreddit (I like to scour them to see if I can disturb their safespace): thenews.pl
It's an interesting idea to me. Of course a literal "Marshall Plan for Africa" would be a mess of cultural and economic imperialism, but I like the idea of sending huge amounts of funds into Africa to develop their economy. It shouldn't just be an increase in humanitarian aid though, we know that that isn't enough. Maybe we need a unified European army, enlist a bunch of aimless but intelligent young people, and send them to the African continent to help them figure things out. They wouldn't be fighting anyone, maybe we wouldn't even give them fighting gear. They'd simply be building infrastructure, educating people, helping them set up cooperative enterprises, shit like that. It would be great. A grand public works project to modernize the African continent.
Our current refugee politics is a disaster. Not only is helping the few relatively wealthy Africans who can get to Europe deeply hypocritical, it's also a brain-drain on the African continent. So how about we do the exact opposite? An act of genuine internationalism. We send our smart and competent people where they live. It would also inject a lot of that sweet Western money into their economies.
What do you think? Is there something to this idea, or would it simply be a disaster?
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