re: #279 Obdicut

As I said, the capital won’t be invested in there unless there’s a stable government.

Well, that’s either a stupid or an assholic statement, take your pick. You can’t simply choose to become uneducated, you can’t choose to suddenly become westernized, you can’t choose to suddenly adopt Enlightenment values. They didn’t sign up for being ‘primitive’.

Here we go again. I suppose you are going to say they would be civilized if not for all those nasty foreigners that keep invading over the past thousand years or so./

Name a country that hasn’t faced that in their history.

Their problem is that they don’t have a national identity and the closest they have come to a leadership that would impose that recently is the Taliban, a primitive and degenerate theocracy with no interest in joining the 21st century.