Hello my friend.
Very busy, busy, busy.
Ref yours: "....It will be a long long time before the rule of law reaches and takes root in those many provinces that make up the fragmenting and collapsing vestige of an empire that was formerly known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In fact the history of the USSR points to the exact opposite, that lawlessness, anarchy, and despotism will be the rule in that land".
To view the "creative" destruction of colonial constructs take two exisiting models. Africa. New Years. 1999. The end of the millenium.
(a): Nigeria, a colonial construct of the British. Now propped up by $12 plus oil revenues each year. A country headed down the merry path towards "creatie" destructon of a colonial construct.... that spans the mangrove swamps to the deserts of the Fulani in the north.
(b): the Congo. Formerly, Zaire....formerly the Belgian Congo. The Congo "graduated" from 70 odd-years of Belgian colonial adminstration with under ten B.A. graduates in the whole country.
After Mobutu we are left with the whole colonial construct of the Belgians finally matastacizing. When the Belgians left the Congo they left a network of highways.... that made it possible to cross the country in two days. Now, it would take literally four months if you weren't shot or eaten by bugs, or perhaps your fellow homo sapiens.
The point of these observations is that the colonial contructs of the 19th century European grab of territories... have taken fifty years to begin to unwind. Watch Russia now. Then, India.
My best, hurriedly,
Clark |
