The World’s Most Successful Failed State 

Thanks for sharing, hard life makes tough people. We Americans wouldn't last half as long as these people when shit hits the fan.

but theyre friends with usa (oil company 😁) so democracy is not needed there

@@greedo9543Sure we wouldn’t. Even though it’s a two party corporate dictatorship with a history of targeting workers movements here and abroad, and popular policies fail to get passed and the police regularly crack down on peaceful protests

@@greedo9543 What then do you think is tyranny? How is a society where popular policies not getting passed, a society that has conducted raids such as the Palmer raids to target socialists and workers movements, a country where the police regularly attack peaceful protesters, a country that bankrupt people trying to get affordable healthcare, a country where government officials are perfectly allowed to trade stocks, you don’t think at all this comes off as totalitarian?

@@greedo9543 How the USA would turn into a dictatorship: 1. A popular war hero rules America 2. The war hero changes the laws to get more power 3. Failed attempts at stopping the war hero from ruling 4. A foreign threat is used to justify random police arrests 5. Military spending sky rockets 6. Perpetual wars happen 7. Freedom of speech is changed

I love big gdp per captia really gets me going 🥶

It's the GDP PPP for me

Built for GDP

Never heard of the guy

GDPOOP

It's worse. Under the Spanish they at least had good healthcare facilities and schooling. Those are both long gone.

@@iratepirate3896this

@@iratepirate3896@iratepirate3896 The Belgian Congo is also a tragic story: it went from being a brutal slave state to a paternalistic but still well-run colony to a broken kleptocracy under Mobutu.

As a Sierra Leonean 🇸🇱 Many elders miss colonial times because basic needs were provided, quality education, roads, clean water. Now, the elders are more educated than the younger generations post independence. Sometimes colonialism is good for the people of a country.

LOL it's WAY WORSE than the colonizers (mostly, Belgium was pretty hardcore but some were more ok like France)

Oh my gawd.

Seeing as Africans sold tens of millions of their kin into slavery, im not surprised that africans don’t see each other as human beings.

Oh god

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Modern-day slavery and Eritrea says hello

🤔🤔

This is why I beleive In judgement day. Sick to think that so many vile people who caused suffering for millions will get away with it.

​@@AhmedAli-kt1ezbelieving in something doesn't make it real

The "democracy upholders" are always quiet when it comes to these ones. Fair elections are a rarity. As an African, i prefer not to have to leave the continent to prosper.

​@@AhmedAli-kt1ez Judgement day will not be nice to them. I hope its real.

they aint wrong.

that's hilarious lol

Nguema estaba LOCO de atar

I mean smoking weed could trigger psychosis that's the biggest hazard about weed that nobody dares to talk about, but psychosis does not inherently cause violence it actually greatly increases your chance of being a _victim_ of crime

Propaganda by the govs

Leaders like Thomas Sankara truly believed in a socialist future and like most of his radical contemporaries they were killed to make way for fake independence and continuation of brutal, authoritarian extraction economies which only serves a tiny elite.

@@overbeb For every Thomas Sankara, there was Mengistu Haile Mariam and Mohamed Siad Barre who turned their countries into the poster-children for everything gone wrong with post-colonial Africa. Both of the countries were USSR-backed. Ethiopia = famine. Somalia = failed state

In fairness when fighting for the freedom of your country you’ll take whatever you can get.

These are far from market economies. Especially when industries are state owned.

Truthfully, the Cold War was never about Economics, it was about the Soul of the Nation.

He was literally psychotic. Like not in a insulting way, he had genuine psychosis from drug use.

@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 That's insulting to the people with psychosis from drug use who aren't thinking they are the second coming of Hitler. /joke Fr how could someone even take up that kind of title? That's just crazy

@highchairman6428 idk, when you take psychedelics your whole life that seems kind of influencal too me. If psychology at the time was actually a proper science in spain then maybe he would have been alot more reasonable but his visit for psychiatric help in barcelona apparently didn't do the intended work.

Not really Burgundian System. Since he didn't genocide non Aryans for being non aryans

Hitlerist????

North Korea

North Korea is Totalitarian not Authoritarian.Whole other level@@RK-cj4oc

Canada

@@ghgvxcb8105Lmao if Canada isn’t democratic then no one is

@@ghgvxcb8105privileged people in some of the richest safest countries in the world, like Canada, comparing their country to someplace like Equatorial Guinea because they got told they shouldn’t be racist anymore, is such privalege.

Fernando must have taken a really big poo then

Hehe, poo.

Hehe, poo

Hehe, Poo

That's utterly incorrect.

I think that in some instances monarchism is a safer bet for a country than democracy, Afghanistan for example. If everyone is rural and does not get frequent updates about their government, the democracy becomes corrupt and unstable. A monarch isn’t necessarily a better ruler to its people, but it does tend to last longer as a government than an imposed democracy under those conditions. I was a little surprised to see a Nigerian national being fundamentally opposed to dictatorship, although with the african Great War and the historical individual rulers of African countries it makes sense.

@@salamantics You have a point, friend. Monarchism does work but in special circumstances and locations. Why it doesn't work for much of us in Africa on a large scale is that our nations are too tribally diverse for it to work. Hence why civic nationalism, democracy and federalism is what you usually see here, especially in Nigeria.

Dictatorships dont help anyone...whether its Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, etc. which are in practice absolute monarchies.

W opinion

And democracy is not the best system to rule

Yeah Geography now is bad because he completely ignores, or feels he has to sugarcoat when countries are doing evil things

@@lincolnlog5977 It's always telling when the only thing those channels can say about a country is "the landscape is very beautiful" or "the people and food are very nice".

Ya'll still watching gEog n0w! in 2023? his channel peaked in 2016-ish and after that his annoying friends chip in it became a corny show. now he's conserving the episodes and got mad when saying those things.

Geography now really sugarcoats EVERYTHINGGG he rushes through the bad parts like when I watched the Trinidad episode (I’m from Trinidad btw) he barely even mentioned the Venezuelan immigrates he’s probably going to say Venezuela “The gem of South America!”

I hate that channel since he did Indonesia so dirty. In the international relations he just put "Indonesia's best friend is japan because indonesians love japan" bro how tf is that an indicator of a country's foreign policy thats so stupid! He's really biased and it shows with the length of his new videos

It’s still a consequence of European colonialism. These countries have basically never known stability. Of course they’re going to produce ruthless and ambitious individuals who don’t care for anyone besides themselves. Those are the kinds of people who survive.

Speaking as a South African, I can tell you the problem is culture and IQ.

​@@dannyarcher6370based

But even then, the warlord can't do all by himself. The military forces that serve under him are still made up of average people, that for some reason would rather watch their country crumble instead of rebelling.

@@yakobsoulstorm5187 Will it still be a consequence in 50 years? 200 years? At some point they have to get their stuff together man, can't keep blaming the past.

What a wicked act

Maybe its time for people of Equatorial Guinei to be freed with some communism?

lol thats how they ended up here in the first place @@ivanmatusic5540

@@cjBless-zi5wv Which one: yours or their mother's?

Equatoguinean ruling family is so wicked that they had me sympathizing with Kim Il-Sung for a moment... Damn

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Corrupt Africans! Well I never!

@@leotorol our rail system is full of inefficient and unnecessary rail roads that wee built because of corruption, sure Barcelona-Madrid highs speed is viable, but the rest of the infrastructure receives almost no passangers

@@leotorolI don’t think you get his comment. He’s saying y’all are funnily as you mentioned, too “progressive” and EG is conservative. Also, your last point reference the American stereotype of having expensive healthcare when you don’t even know if he’s American?

@@hannankhan2507 yeah am reading it again and maybe I misunderstood. I thought he was american cause I just asociate conservative people to being richer than most so my first instinct was to think he was american Cancelar Responder

Equatorial Guinea was once called the North Korea of Africa, taking away Eritrea's position. I beg to differ, because it was arguably the *Dachau concentration camp* or, more appropriately *Democratic Kampuchea* of Africa until Francisco Macías Nguema was executed. It's gotten better over the years but it's still extremely corrupt and if it weren't for the insane riches that the few have, it would be a least developed country. Also, child porn is still legal in that country...

See you been reading Acemoglu & Robinson ;) good on ya! Equatorial Guinea is the perfect specimen.

this guy clearly read Acemoglu and Robinson lol

China proves that rule BY law is enough

I'm not so sure. It is possible to be a truly wealthy economy and still have corrupt, authoritarian politics, eg Saudi Arabia.

That's sad you don't even know your own continent.

​@@MalevolentBitewould you find it odd for a Lithuanian to not know about Luxembourg?

@gerald1495 Yes, because I am American and I know what luxembourg is. But maybe because I like maps and history.

​@@MalevolentBitedude some Americans don't even know how many states the US has or what the capital city is

@Joe-official I am not speaking for all Americans, plus most Americans are not even really american ( some are second generation american) or newly citizens from immagration. So that's understandable. He's home grown Kenya and Kenya is not a big country with mass immagration so I am going to assume he's home grown he should know that information. America is such a big melting pot they litterly have 6 communities in one city that nobody doesn't speak english. And I know for a fact non of them know all 50 states. But the average 40 year old American definitely know american history. These new kids probably not.

Nah, Africa as a whole is a pretty hostile place for development.

Africa has too many issues. North Africa are just vassals for the Saudi's/Iran, South Africa is in the midst of showing everyone what control via demographics does to a once-nuclear power, and the rest tears itself apart regularly and is only propped up by food imports by the US.

Because all the good African leaders were couped by Western backed thugs who then continued to violate human rights in exchange for allowing Western corporations and capitalists to exploit and appropriate their resources.

​@@fjooyouidk, many Africans seem to be pretty creative to work around all that corruption and lack of available resources

@@fjooyoumy guy it is one of the most resource rich places on the planet.

huh?

You probably already know the insane corruption of its leader, but the predecessor was known as Africa's version of Pol Pot. Also, child porn is legal in Equatorial Guinea.

@@probium2832 lol that funny 😂😂

​@@probium2832 Every time I hear about Equatorial Guinea, it's some new fucked up shit that makes me wonder if it even exists and how

@@republicadominicana8589 What exactly is funny about genocide and child photography?!

Both can be true at once

Same bullshit they say about France in surrounding countries with similar issues

both are true, they were defenetivily better being colony of spàin that they are now. and is some fault of spain for no making a democracy when the country reach independence but before independe nothing is fault or spain

As Filipino, it's hilarious when I find Filipinos still blaming Spain. FFS we've been through the Americans and Japanese too!

@@ifiked4480as an Argentinian, why is it Spains responsibility that EG has a failed democracy? We fought for our independence in Latin America, and we built our democracies out of thin air. Any country can do the same. Specially EG, since they were never a Spanish Colony, they were a part of Spain, basically another province.

Seychelles and mauritius was never richer then Spain but Equatorial Guinea was

Continental Africa*

I am from mauritius. I wouldn't call ourselves rich. Most of our money comes from tourism and we have no natural reasources

@@setsunatenma9467 well according to GDP per capita, u are second after Seychelles and according to Human development index, which actually measures more than just GDP per capita, so it is more accurate, Mauritius is first in Africa

@@setsunatenma9467 while not rich but i think Mauritius is still in better position than most west african country

Other than Russia, no ex-Soviet state has ever launched a spacecraft into the orbit. Or sent astronauts into space.

@@thecomment9489 The most important metric when it comes to the success of a country lmao

@@benas_st Even if not most important but a very important one. You don't launch a satellite or astronauts into space out of the blue. It takes years of dedication, hardwork and competence and of course focus and education to make that possible.

I thing would be same like Yugoslavia.If you see wealth in 1980 off Yugoslavia republic and compare to 2023 difference is alsmost totaly the same ,almost to 1% ,even 43 years passed ,system changed ,there was war ,some are iN EU ,some not but difference in republic wealth is totaly the same now like in 1980.So is not about system but mostly people

With the Baltic countries being exceptions (they managed to join NATO and the EU while Russia was in turmoil during the 1990s), the ex-Soviet states are not in great shape: - Central Asian states are all lead by corrupt authoritarian oligarchies and Soviet dinossaurs, and the same can be said for Belarus; - Russia is still a military power because they inheritted most of Soviet weaponery, military industry equipment warehouses and nuclear bombs. If you take out the military power modern Russia is only a shadow of what the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire was in the past; - Post-Soviet Azerbaijan is basically ruled by a Sultan that has expansionist goals and it's supported by Erdogan and, indirectly, by the US. The country is incredibily corrupt and it's only on the Western block of influence because it has lots of natural gas; - Armenia has been under a deep conflict with Azerbaijan for many decades already, it's one of the poorest countries in the post-Soviet space with lots of inestability. They only managed to stay afloat because they were basically forced to get under the Russian sphere of influence, while Azerbaijan became an ally of Turkey (the West), and because of that they kept a somewhat democratic state for the last 20 years. However recently Russia betrayed Armenia by not deploying their CSTO "peacekeepers" to Artsakh, so things could change in the near future as Armenia is not a Russian ally anymore;´ - Moldova was an incredibily poor and corrupt country also because of Soviet dinossaurs and oligarchs. On top of that they even have a break-away region called Trasnistria, which is like a travel in time - it's like as if the Soviet Union never ended. Things have improven lately though, as Romania, next to Moldova, started to have big economic growth. Right now Moldova is even a candidate to join the EU; - Georgia and Ukraine tried desperately to resist intense Russian influence and join the Western world and European society. Georgia unfortunately failed in 2008, although they still keep their sovereignty at some degree. Ukraine still resists, with some help from Western countries during the full-scale Russian invasion.

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You absolutely nailed it

The "islands" did NOT wanted to leave Spain, if only NEVER with the continentals

It's literally the most important stat except if you're a tax heaven, and PPP GDP per capita is even better.

not the fault of Spain but the country's people's mindset and leaders

nah

@@nuzayerov I dont think seperating one tribe and then uniting them with another tribe that they have been fighting for ages is a good idea for a successful country.

Viceroyalties*. If you think these are bad then prepare to see the french ones lol. And the caribbean islands the english took are... there.

And yes its a total dictatorship cause literally last year’s elections in 2023 in the news said basically 97% voted for the Democratic Party or Obiangs party and the ones that didn’t most probably were put in jail and tortured so

esa isla deber ser la suiza de africa

most of those mansions and privilidge are owned by lebanese and other europeans tho

@@republicadominicana8589Lebanon isn’t European.

On paper the GDP has increased, but in reality change is slow…everything is still under construction. It will take 10-20 years for real change to impact the lives of people. I am from Trinidad and many Trinidadians have begun investing more into Guyana…they face major infrastructural challenges…Much of the country is disconnected. Hoping this revenue resolves that.

Rahhhhhh racism

Do you hate them because their skin is the color of dookie?

Would be really nice to hear about this in English, but Venezuela is trying to block this growth as a big chunk of Guyanas territory has been disputed by Venezuela for more than a century, which also caused some of ExxonMobil s shares to drop a bit

@@quintboredom The Shares? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I bet you like gay people

Siento desilusionarte pero las cosas en guinea ecuatorial están mejores que en muchos países latinos...... Aquí hay un montón pero un montón de latinos...... Preguntales a ellos cómo es vivir aquí........ Y deja de seguir videos políticos

the un is a cesspool

hoser doesn't make mistakes.

Yes, and seeing people disguised as Santa Claus while the same music plays in the background *_THOOOSE WEEERE THE DAAAAYS MY FRIEND_*

@@desertfalcon1539 ah, I see you're a man of culture as well...

Dude, I love

Dirty brown

Socks

And hate

Brown people

Indeed. Meanwhile all of western civilization is trying to save Ukraine. Why not any of these injustices going on across the globe? Money is the answer.

I love racism

Except for tax havens and oil nations, GDP per capita it’s a pretty good indicator. Wealth is needed to sustain a good quality of life.

@@agme8045 Exacly! just like how the US is the 8th richest country by GDP per capita and... it's constantly ranked lower by quality of life than other developed economies... well I guess you could consider it an oil nation right? Lmao, now being serious, wealth is needed, for sure. But it's definitely not the only driver for a good quality of life. There are many things that improve it or decrease it and are not counted in the GDP measure. Like enviromental conditions, labour laws, wealth inequality, public services, crime rates. As well as economic transactions that just aren't included, like someone mowing their neighbors' lawn. Also illegal activities that in some countries can represent around 45% of a nation's GDP but are not included cause... well, they're secret. Either way, I think I wouldn't have so much of a problem with GDP if people simply didn't take it at face value and actually used other measures to complement their analysis. In short: It's not trash, like I said in my first comment, but it's definitely overrated and not a good measure on its own.

​@@elianes5505 Well it is the biggest oil producer...and consumer. One could argue the USA is THE Oil nation.

I see the people running this country going through something terrible in the next 10 years.

Isn't Gabon one of the less bad countries in that region though? I mean, sure, it's an authoritarian regime with massive inequality (at least that was the case before the coup, we'll see what happens), but if you compare it to places like Equatorial Guinea, the DRC or the Central African Republic, it at least seems much better.

@@PeterPeter-pr2hi I meant it in the sense of it being an extractive oil-based economy. The DRC and CAR have very different histories and economies from what I know, and they're messed up in completely different ways (DRC is so big that there's probably big internal differences as well). With Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, since they're both oil producing dictatorships right next to each other, the comparison makes a lot more sense and that Gabon would come out on top speaks volume about how EG is fucked up.

Embarrassing!!

Yea, I read about this 😂

There is actually large investment in infrastructure look at RU-vid videos

Did...you not watch the video? The Cali and Hawaii homes were seized, along with his home in Paris and another.

@@selfawaretrashcan4594 There was no California or Hawaii homes. They’re only in Spain and Portugal.

​@@anonymoususer8895. He had one mansion in California and a second one in Hawaii both were seized, he also had an account of 700 millions us dollars in New York bank ( Riggs) Equatorial Guinea is North korea of Africa. I've lived there and I've seen people disappear, it's crazy because USA and France keep doing businesses with the Obiang family so they feel like no one can touch them

I'm not sure if it is the kind of video he would make, but it is very sad what is happening to LGBT people in Uganda. The politicians that are persecuting LGBT people have pathologies like those who originally sold out the African continent, but the people should know better that they should care about their neighbours regardless of sexual orientation more than they care about a tyranical god.

The UN sucks at tackling corruption

Is the situation in gabon bad too?