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Not sure I follow. Running a country right off a cliff is not helping anyone in the country.

Is a well known racist poem praising colonialism.

Trying to bring the racist card to the discussion maybe; but "they don't help us because they are racists" is a dusty and very worn out argument at this moment.

> "they don't help us because they are racists"

That is not what i meant when posting the poem.

When someone asks "Why is every western government not warning Pakistan...", he is basically rephrasing Kipling and asking to "Take up the White Man's burden".

This has been attempted before, didn't go so well. That might give a clue, why we are in the current state of affairs.

> This has been attempted before, didn't go so well. That might give a clue, why we are in the current state of affairs.

Pakistan running itself off a cliff is not going well either.

> Pakistan running itself off a cliff is not going well either

I mean, it's not going terribly either. For a nuclear-armed nation, that is.

I mean, the current state of Pakistan is due to widespread support for corrupt politicians by US and other powers in 1950s and onwards.

I agree with your last paragraph but unfortunately I think you needed to provide that context with the original post. Many American and British conservatives use it non-ironically because they do see the condition of former colonial countries as proof that the people there aren’t fit to govern themselves.

> Why is every western government not warning Pakistan..

Because is not the duty of governments to teach science to other governments.

Science is a whole humanity project (not just a western one), and we publish our work for free, so is available to everybody, everywhere. Anybody can adopt this knowledge without asking to western countries.

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