All the Worlds Countries - M-N
Madagascar
- capital: Antananarivo
Large island off the coast of Africa overlooking the Indian Ocean.
The strange monkey lemur lives in only two places in the world: Madagascar and India. It is very difficult, and indeed impossible, to imagine that it could have wandered up through Africa and across most of Asia without settling anywhere. And it also swam across the Indian Ocean.
But there is a third and obvious possibility. It walked and swayed in the trees all the way through a now sunken land mass that stretched between Africa/Madagascar, India and Australia. One of its names was Lemuria - although it is supposed to be in the middle of the Pacific - and ancient scriptures and legends tell of this land. Recently, geophysicists have confirmed that there was a land mass. Indian scriptures call it Kumari Kandam.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Madagascar was a favorite haunt for pirates. Later, the British and French arrived, who also robbed and plundered. And engaged in slave trade and slavery. In 1897, the old Merina kingdom became a French colony. This did not happen without local uprisings, and when it was defeated, the French issued a bill for the expenses they had incurred in waging war and presented it to the inhabitants in the form of taxes. It can’t be shown more clearly, the sick and perverted mindset behind imperialism/colonialism.
From 1885 until WW2, there were plans to deport Europe’s Jews to Madagascar. Seriously! It wasn’t just the Nazis who thought so, the proposal was made by a Frenchman named Paul de Lagarde. The British also thought it was a good idea. The people of Madagascar didn’t think it was a good idea, and although they never would have been asked anyway it never came to fruition.
During the great global lockdown in 2019 caused by a laboratory virus from Wuhan, Madagascar’s president Andry Rajoelina clashed with the powerful pharmaceutical industry and its globalist lobby groups by claiming that the island had traditional herbal remedies that cured such things. People were not allowed to think that way.
Malawi
- capital: Lilongwe
The British colonial power called the country Nyasaland, but Maravi spelled Malawi is more original.
No African country has avoided tribal conflicts. But if you look at the list and distribution of tribes in this relatively small African country - 25.2% Chewa, 20.4% Tumbuka, 17.9% Lemhe15, 3% Yao 5.4% Ngoni, 4.8% Sena, 3.2% Mang’anja, 1.9% Nyanja, 1.8% Tonga, 1.0% Ngonde, 0.6% Lambya, 0.5% Sukwa 25, 2% chewa, 20.4% tumbuka, 17.9% ilewe, 15.3% yao, 5.4% ngoni, 4.8% sena, 3.2% mang’anja, 1.9% nyanja, 1.8% tonga, 1.0% ngonde, 0.6% lambya, 0.5% sukwa ... then you can see that, as in, for example, neighboring Zimbabwe, a situation where one large tribe dominates one another large tribe and fight for the government.
When we see the picture of Malawi’s first president, Dr. Hastings Banda, welcoming Julius Nyerere, Tanzania’s famous president, at the plane, we look back to a time of optimism after the colonial era. They felt that they had thrown off the heavy yoke, they were like freed slaves from the plantation, now they had to start fresh and create THEIR Africa in THEIR country. All too often it was a tight deadline before conflicts and bloodshed really started. ‘Someone’ had been in and pissed down into the anthill.
It must be said that Dr. Banda had created a one-party state with himself as president for life in 1963. It lasted for 30 years before protests became too big, both from within and without. But there was still no bloodshed, and the transition to a multi-party system went smoothly.
Malawi has had the means – and the warm heart - to house refugees from wars in Mozambique, Congo and Rwanda. However, not without great pressure on the national economy. In Malawi, they say, they are doing something about corruption. However, the tendency is that high-level corruption is allowed to get away with it. Have we seen this before and elsewhere? The whole governmental system and in particular the EU, the UN and the USA is build upon heavy corruption on the highest level.
Malaysia
- capital: Putrajaya
Half of the country is on the Malay Peninsula, half on the northern part of Borneo. Is Putrajaya the capital? Yes, administratively, but Kuala Lumpur is the cultural capital. A bit like Germany decades ago. Who would have thought of Bonn, that sick-ass city, as the capital? But it was.
Malaysia has an ancient culture but is a young country created synthetically from former British colonies. However, the flag contains a crescent moon, which indicates that Malaysia is a Muslim country.
When the so-called tiger economies collapsed in the 1990s due to a financial terrorist attack by George Soros, among others, Malaysia and Taiwan were the two countries - oh sorry China, Taiwan is not a ‘country’ - that were relatively unaffected. Taiwan because they ran a national economy like Germany’s in the 1930s without a globalized central bank. Malaysia because at that time they had Sharia banking, which in its original form prohibited usury = indebtedness through lending interest. Genuine Sharia banking is nowhere to be found anymore, because the globalists have found loopholes to undermine it, and Islam has allowed itself to be compromised in that area as well.
The Malays themselves called their kingdom, including the island kingdom, Tanah Melayu. Indian traders called it Malayadvipa. Malay means a mountain, sia means in Asia = that mountain in Asia. The name became official in 1957, when the country became an independent territory. However, in the 19th century, the name was used for all the islands in the area, including Indonesia and the Philippines, suggesting that Malay culture once spanned the whole.
The Maldives
- capital: Malé
Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa means Republic of Maldives), where Dhiveri has given the name. An indigenous people named Dheyvis have further given the name. Mal- comes from Sanskrit mālā, which means a chain. That is how the islands are located. That is also how they extend like a chain into the Indian Ocean. But etymology is difficult when it comes to old names, because in Sri Lanka they write about Mahiladiva, and that means the islands of women. And Maalai almost as in the Malay kingdom also means chain, so an island chain.
For the country is an archipelago, consisting of 26 atolls (the rim of extinct volcanoes overgrown with coral reefs), islands and other reefs. They lie on top of an underwater mountain range, the Chagos-Laccadive in the Indian Ocean. These were once part of the sunken landmass that lay between Madagascar, South India/Sri Lanka and Australia, which the Indians called Kumari Kandam, and which others have called Lemuria.
The Indians in ancient times were a seafaring people, which the British-dominated and mostly completely distorted historiography omits. It should not be said that nations dominated the oceans before themselves. The Dheyvis people came from King Asoka’s Empire (269-232 BC).
Fishing has always been the natural way of life for the population. It is like in South India, where people also eat more vegetarian food and more fish. It is possible to live off it, unlike, for example, North India, where the herding culture, like in most of Central Asia, is the traditional one. Up here it gets bitterly cold in the winter, and without the animal fats, you could not survive. This is something that militant vegans mostly get completely wrong about in their utopian semi-totalitarian food ideology with one size fits all humanity. In the Maldives, one could live vegan in the mild and friendly climate, which is almost the dream of the eternal South Sea island with sunshine all the time. But they choose to eat fish, and they also do not have the vegan deficiency diseases that are caused by the fact that proteins are incredibly difficult to get in sufficient quantities from vegetables.
After Indian and later Buddhist rule - Buddhism is a subset of Hinduism, although some say otherwise - the island kingdom became Muslim in the 12th century.
In 1558 the Portuguese took over, and in the mid-17th century the British took over Ceylon/Sri Lanka and then the Maldives, which are geographically very much an extension of it. A large part of the island’s population was still Muslim, and their dominance has been reestablished today. In 1965 it became a republic.
The Maldives developed from the 1970s into one big tourist paradise, mostly for wealthy tourists. The islands are dotted with this kind of hotels and resorts, where you can enjoy your drink under a parasol in the middle of the ocean and dip your toe in the blue wave. The Muslim government obviously tolerates all kinds of wickedness, as long as there is money in it. And the rich tourists don’t mingle with the Muslims in the slightly larger cities but enjoy themselves at their resorts.
It doesn’t take more than 2.4 meters of water rise for the country to disappear completely under the water surface. According to the climate cult, it should have happened 20 years ago, but the Flood has been postponed every year, like Judgment Day. But in a moment, I tell you, pay your green taxes and get absolution for your sins ... You can’t taxate unless it stays a tomorrow-threat.
Mali
- capital: Bamako
The great kingdom 1000 years ago.
As it says in Donald Duck: Send them to Timbuktu!
A storyteller in Senegal and Mali was a griot. To help him remember his many hours of storytelling about the history of the country and the exploits of kings from ancient times to the present, he had his kora, the African harp, and his singing voice.
If you asked him specifically about, for example, King Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Fa Ndeb Joof, king of the kingdom of Sine, which included parts of Senegal, Mali and Mauritania, the griot could give you no other answer than that you would know if you had the patience to wait the five hours it took for his song to get there. It was like an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape with no possibility of rewinding but only playing - all the way from the beginning. One must assume that the great epic stories of the ancient world have such song stories, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey for example. And the pagans had plenty of time. Today we do not have time to have plenty of time.
A desert country with old mountains.
The old kingdom had no fixed borders, because they were not needed. It makes no sense to do as the colonial powers did: to draw absurdly-mathematically-straight lines in the sand. Who owns the sandbank here and 100 km further over there? In 10 years it will have moved.
The ancient Ghana Empire 500-1000 AD was overrun by the Al Moravid, an Islamic sectarian movement formed in 1040 by Abdallah ibn-Jasin, who forced Islam from Algeria to Senegal.
They would correspond to our time’s ISIS, al Qaeda, Taliban, Mujaheddin, Boku Haram, Salafist-Wahhabis - that is, fundamentalist-fanatic holy warriors, jihadists.
Mali became French Sudan at the end of the 19th century.
Malta
- capital: Valetta
Only independent in 1964 after having been a British colony since 1664.
English is still the official language.
Malta has had the same interest in seafarers and passers-by as Sicily and Cyprus - everyone has been there, the Phoenicians, the Arabs, the Normans. For 268 years they were ruled by a so-called monastic order, the Knights of Malta. However, these were far from pious, ascetic monks but one of the most powerful secret lodges in the world, with great power in the Vatican, among other things. They are still active in ‘occult’ geopolitics.
These warrior monks, however, defended the island against the largest armada sent by the Turks at the time. After firing 130,000 cannonballs at the island and losing 25,000 men - but that is a lot for trying to occupy an island half the size of Bornholm - they sailed home again. The capital Valletta is named after Jean de Valette, the general of the Hospitallers.
Why were they called Hospitallers? Because they were not into Jesus but John the Baptist.
Malta is home to some of the oldest known megalithic structures. Ggantija, the tower of the giants on one of the two small Maltese islands of Gozo, has a disputed age. Traditional archaeology dates almost everything to within a maximum of 5,000 years. Bizarrely enough, this is because the Bible (as we read and interpret it) states that God created the world, and you can then calculate from its genealogy that it must have been 5,000 years ago.
Here you would think that we have become a little wiser, but that is not the case with one of the youngest sciences, archaeology, which only emerged in the 19th century. This dogma has simply become entrenched as an absolute premise. Especially when you encounter buildings that are magnificent and have required advanced technology to build, this (pseudo)science goes completely into reverse. There is a Darwinism ingrained in archaeology, because everything must follow the postulated evolution, so advanced technology must be the newest, right?
As is well known, you can’t date stones using the carbon-14 method, as it only measures organic material. But a Scottish team of scientists invented a new method for dating. It dated the time of the quarry, that is, when the stone was carved out of the rock, because the surface undergoes a certain measurable physics and chemistry.
And here it is: the Ggantija stones were quarried 20,000 years ago. According to legend, it was built by giants, and now we are on a new topic that is making science go into a tailspin. They have skeletons of giants in their museum warehouses, they have just been told that they are not allowed to be exhibited and that they are not allowed to be spoken or written about.
The Smithsonian Institute in the US is such an archaeological Gestapo, and a few years ago lost a case in the Supreme Court that they had committed a crime by destroying 10,000 skeletons of giants by dumping them in the Atlantic Ocean. You should NEVER destroy such common heritage, because it does not belong to them but to humanity. Their fatal explanation was: Well, we had no room for them in the warehouse anymore ... They have no room for them in their exhibitions either. The archaeological mafia has forbidden us to know anything about our real past. What are they afraid of, and who’s their daddy ordering to act like that?
But since they are so stubborn about the 5,000 years - or have been, because it is quite difficult, after sites like Göbekli Tepe have been dated to 9,500 years old, and that is just the time when the place was covered with stones - we could remind them that there are also giants in the Bible. They were called Nephilim, and they were the result of ‘angels’ who preyed on human women. And then there is Goliath. The giant who built Ggantija was a woman named Sansuna. She fathered a son with a normal man - and here you can get some strange images for your inner vision ;-) She carried her son on her back in a bag while she went and built the tower. According to legend. And each brick weighs about a ton.
The mysteries do not stop here. Malta is undermined by caves and a labyrinthine network of passages. A school class of 30 students disappeared in the Hypogeum at Hal Saflieni. A female researcher was allowed to descend into the deepest layer of the catacombs at her own risk. She found a bottomless pit and some hairy figures pointing at her - after which she was busy getting up. It is said that the tunnels go under the seabed. And in the waters around Malta there are also megaliths.
Morocco
- capital: Rabat
Morocco is the only African country that has a direct border with Europe, and Spain is therefore the only country that has a direct border with Africa. Morocco and Spain are fighting for the same reason over two ridiculous islands in the narrow Strait of Gibraltar, which forms the exit from the Mediterranean. One of them is Alborán. In ancient times they called the strait the Pillars of Hercules.
Morocco - founded by Idris I in 788 - was the only country in North Africa to avoid the Ottoman invasion wave. Idris has a mausoleum in the city of Fez.
That is, the self-proclaimed peace-loving Islam, which, with just a cursory study of world history, appears to be a joke. War always followed in the footsteps of the expansion of Islam and the Caliphate.
Morocco is a kingdom, and its current dynasty dates back to 1631. It is highlighted as an example of a benevolent kingdom, where people had freedoms, and where ethnic groups were protected. King Hassan stated: There are no Jews, Christians or Muslims. There are only Moroccans.
The royal family is Alawi, an old family with its own secret religion. Syrian President Assad is also Alawi.
The famous melodrama Casablanca with Bogart and Bergman from 1956 gives an insight into the style that was followed in relation to the Nazi occupation.
Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco but not the capital.
Morocco claims the territory of Western Sahara. The international community does not recognize the claim, but Morocco is still fighting the liberation movement Polisario. And why would a country cling to a piece of barren dry desert, where they never would live themselves. Oh, you guessed it, there are ressources burried under the the dry sand.
Marshall Islands
- capital: Delap-Uliga-Djarrit
Discovered by Europeans in 1526 by the Spaniard Alonzo de Salazarsom.
Named by the English captain John Marshall in 1788.
In 1906 the islands became the German colony of Deutsch-Neuginea, which no one has heard of.
After WW2 part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which no one has heard of either.
In the 1960s, the US believed that the locals on the ridiculously useless islands of Bikini Atoll and Eniwetok would be suitable test material for nuclear tests.
When these locals showed ‘funny’ symptoms after the testing, they had to be deported.
Mauretania
- capital: Nouakchott
It could also have been called Mauristan, the land of the Moors. From here came the flood of Moors that swept across Europe along with Islam in the first millennium. On the island of Corsica, they have a somewhat macabre national symbol: the severed head of a Moor. The head was that of a Moorish pirate, whose profession was not well-regarded in many places in the Mediterranean.
The name of the country today is: The Islamic Republic of Mauritania. This tells us that it is a theocracy.
It is a harsh and unforgiving place, almost desert - in places interrupted by salt lagoons, where it is even worse. But it is evidence that there was once a lot of floating waterways, transporting the salt from the mountains towards the sea. From old maps, which have almost inexplicably survived for over 5,000 years (probably in copy form), we can see that the whole Sahara has been lakes, vegetation, rivers and ... cities.
Under the sand lies a forgotten civilization, a kind of sunken Atlantis in the sand. Just as Antarctica is described by similar maps as Atlantis sunken in the ice. But that is a completely different story.
A slightly younger but still old story is Mauretania’s relationship with the Roman Empire. The Roman expansion also took place in North Africa, and the war against Carthage is familiar to most people. The neighboring country Libya was also a field of Roman interest, and the Romans received help from the Moorish king to fight the Libyan king Jugurtha in the first century.
However, upon closer inspection, it turns out that the Roman concept of Mauretania Caesariensis more closely corresponds to northern Algeria today. Another Mauretania lay further west and corresponds to Morocco today - and belonged to the Roman Iberian province of Hispania, present-day Spain. The cities in the so-called Mare Internum, the inland sea and today the Mediterranean, were flourishing trading cities, and we must imagine great prosperity all the way down the coast of West Africa.
In the 5th century, Mauretania fell into the hands of the Vandals and suffered under King Hunneric. In the 6th century, they fell into the hands of the Byzantines.
In the 11th century, the country was overrun by the Almoravids, Islamic warrior monks, who expelled the original inhabitants, the Berbers. Islam was born as an expansive war religion, although it itself claims to be a peace-loving religion. That just requires a tremendous amount of explaining away world history.
we must consider Al Moravid, the Islamic warrior dynasty.
In the 1900s, Mauritania became a French protectorate. Translation: France stole the country. In 1960, it became independent again, and now they even tried to expand northwards. But here, like Morocco, they ran into the Marxist rebel army Polisario. So they stopped doing that.
In 2007, the expected post-colonial coups and military governments began, and that is where Mauritania has arrived today.
Mauritius
- capital: Port Louis
We forget that there is an island east of a larger island, which is a country. Here you can see this strange mountain.
Black River Peak is ‘only’ 828 meters high. But it rises in a nearby landscape of 0 meters high!
Dutch colony in the 17th century, French colony in the 18th century, English colony in the 19th century. Here the newcomers found a bird that lived in an ecological niche without predators, which was therefore not afraid of humans, and which unfortunately could not fly.
Mauritius is named after this type, who was a Dutch prince named Maurice of Orange.
It is found in a slightly more affordable version in the anachronistic collar that Protestant priests wear in their vestments.
It is said that Mauritius scores highest on the list of the level of human development. Do we have to use the word ‘ridiculous’ again, because what does it even mean? It just has something to do with material standards of living. Like the dodo, they have no enemies out there in the tropical paradise, so they have the energy to have something so unheard of among the 195 countries of the world as ... a good life! The ridiculous and mocking in the expression is not an accusation of the good life of the Mauritians but of the fact that all development should go in the direction of a better life. Just a superficial study of the world situation disproves it.
Mexico
- capital: Mexico City
The largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. It is not surprising, since this area of the great civilizations of the past attracted particular attention from the Spanish conquistadors and the impression that followed.
As far as we know, no explanations have been provided for this other than: that’s how they looked. And yet, studies in ancient genetics have shown - what we could already see in people - that there is a big difference between the physique of the North American tribal people and the South American ones. But we choose not to believe our own eyes, when we are pumped full with the ideological story that they all came wandering across the land bridge over the Bering Strait and then trudged all the way down to Tierra del Fuego. That the cultures of the past should have had sailing skills has been rejected by science as unthinkable. But now paleo-genetics shows that the South American genes are similar to those from Polynesia and all the way over to Indonesia. But-but-but they couldn’t sail...
We are talking about a great past with the Olmecs, Toltecs, Teotihuacán, Zapotecs, Mayans and Aztecs. By the time the Spaniards arrived, most of them were already gone, but the Spaniards ensured the destruction of the last great empire, the Aztecs. They had no resistance to the diseases that the Europeans brought with them. The new masters knew it, but it was the perfect genocide, because hey! they just got sick, that was not the intention, we didn’t see that coming ...
Teotihuacan - it could hardly be more grandios. Was it the Mayans and Aztecs who built these crazy colossi? If you ask the Mayan elders, for example, those who discreetly preserve the survivors’ own oral and traditional history, they will say that they were there before. But such folk sages do not ask historians for advice, because they know better. Historians don’t ask the elders either, because they claim to know everything.
As usual, the Catholic Church played a crucial role in colonialism. The Jesuits in particular were the usual spearheads and the mental-social part of imperialism, for they were experts in brainwashing and mind control of people. They helped to carry the colonization all the way up Baja de California, and to the state of California, whose cities today still have Spanish names.
The members of the militant monastic order like to pose as ascetic and pious. The ascetic consists of an almost masochistic self-discipline. The pious is highly questionable, and the god they worship may not be the one we are told.
From 1521 and 300 years onwards, Mexico was governed via the Viceroyalty of New Spain. However, the Jesuits were expelled from the country by King Carlos III. Mexico became independent in 1821 - if one can speak of independence with a government that continues an occupation by a colonial power. With the marginalization and decimation of the indigenous population, it was a question of population replacement. So independence should be understood as being detached from the royal power in Spain, and that the viceroy of New Spain would now just be a complete king himself.
In 1860, the country was occupied by France, but a patriot named Benito Juárez kicked them out. Between 1876-1911, the country was ruled with a heavy hand by the military man Porfirio Diaz. Peace and order in the previously rebellion-torn country can be seen as a plus, but the price was peace and order in favor of the large landowners who occupied the land that the peasants could not afford to buy. It was neo-feudalization.
But the poor peasants did not give up, and a rebellion led by Emiliano Zapata overthrew the dictatorship. Porfirio fled to France, and he made sure to bring a fortune from the country’s national economy with him.
Meanwhile, the Spanish-American War took place, starting with a terrible shipwreck of the USS Maine off Havana. It was just an accident, mainstream historians continue to write, because they were told to. But as is always the case with such things, one only has to ask what happened afterwards. Qui bono? Who has an interest and benefit from it. The Americans, who wanted to seize Cuba + a number of islands and small states in the Caribbean and Central America, had that. Mexico did not stand aside, because the United States supports the rebels against the government. The United States has always supported rebellion when it was profitable and dictatorship when it was convenient. The American moral code was and is a pseudonym for hypocrisy. Today, gringos are not particularly well-liked in Mexico.
Mexico today is a very corrupt country. Entire provinces are ruled by the so-called cartels = gang clans-mafia structures that control drug trafficking and human trafficking, etc. The police have no control here, because they are as corrupt as the system itself. For approx. 10 years ago, the city government of Acapulco decided to fire their police because of their corruption. The result was that crime plummeted! Thought-provoking.
Traditions are alive in Mexico. The wedding orchestra aka the mariachi band is mandatory. In the local version it is an infernal noise of out-of-tune trumpets and polyphonic tenor singing accompanied by guitars and violins wearing big hats + irrepressible joy at the noise. Another nice tradition is the Day of the Dead, Dia de los muertos, which is a folk festival on All Souls’ Day and Night, for families and entire villages celebrate their deceased relatives by having a party with them all night - in the cemetery.
Mikronesien
- no official capital
The islands are part of a federation that includes independent island states such as Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Nauru and non-independent island groups such as Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, which do not have independence.
The reason for a federation is to stick together as previously overrun colonial islands that have gained some autonomy from the Empire, so that it does not return with new dog & pony tricks. For example, Guam, which houses one of the important military bases for the United States, which is certainly not well-received by the legitimate residents. It was here that an electronically hijacked Malaysian plane landed with a bunch of computer scientists. The plane disappeared into thin air - except that Vietnamese surveillance equipment saw it all happen. Vietnam has some experience with American military activity, so to speak.
The Micronesian island of Pohnpei has one of the most inexplicable and fascinating sites in the world: Nan Madol.
Everyone knows who built Venice, but no one knows who built Nan Madol. And what’s worse: no one knows how they did it, because the place is an impossible construction of stacked giant oblong blocks of stone, partially submerged in water. None of the stones originate from the area, and the way they are stacked is physically impossible for the culture that is supposed to have done it.
If you ask the culture that still inhabits the island, you get an answer that ‘you’ don’t want to accept: Two brothers arrived on the island and made the stones fly to the place. It’s very reminiscent of the stories told by the locals on Easter Island about the oversized stone figures.
There are no remains of habitation. The remains of a burial ground are the usual: There were some large stones that we moved into and buried people in, because where else would we do that. After which the Western archaeologists arrive with AHAA! temples-burial grounds-offerings-to-the-gods, etc.-etc. Here is another explanation / theory: Nan Madol is located right in the eye of the Pacific needle, where the tsunamis occur. The stones are highly electrically conductive. Can a building complex be a piece of ancient (alien?) geophysical-terraforming technology?
Moldova
- capital: Chisinău
Many people have no idea that it is a country, and where it is located. It may not be the hottest tourist destination, tucked away between Romania and Ukraine, but it should not be unknown. It is a former Soviet province that broke away in 1991 along with all the other areas tired of communism.
It should not be confused with the area in Romania called Moldavia, but it was once part of the Moldavian principality. The Russians took the country during the Napoleonic Wars, while they were now in the process of making Napoleon’s dream of greatness collapse. It was also called Bessarabia, and in 1920 the Romanians seized it. In 1940 the Russians seized it back after an ultimatum, give us Bessarabia or we ...
Moldova today has big problems with the Russian population in Transnistria - the country on the other side of the Dister River. They have effectively seceded. What else but trouble and division can you expect from a country that has been a toss-up for the big guys so many times. It is yet another example of what happens when you draw borders in relation to big political desires and not ethnic-cultural coherence.
As you can see on the map, neither Moldova nor Transnistria has access to the Black Sea. The Ukrainians have blocked it. We’re talking about a few kilometers, and then it would have been there. How petty can you be?! But to be expected from Europe’s most corrupt fascist government, which we are all supposed to love – says the fascist of Bruxelles.
Monaco
- capital: Monte Carlo
Is the capital Monte Carlo? Just because there is only one proper city in a state of 2.02 km2, we have to settle for that.
Let’s put it this way: Monaco is a tax haven for the filthy rich, and over half of the population are millionaires or even billionaires. Few can afford to be a tourist there, because all prices are calculated on the assumption that you are something close to a millionaire. They can then lean out of their balcony and watch the Monte Carlo Rally in the city streets every year and rattle their jewels a little.
Or was Monaco just a Greek (Monoikos, unique house) and later a Roman (Herculis Monoeci Portus) trading port. There was a temple to Heracles/Hercules on the site. Like all small principalities and states, Monaco has been thrown back and forth between larger neighbors - here between the Holy Roman Empire and the Republic of Genoa. A Genoese family Grimaldi was allowed to take over Monaco in 1297 - as long as it remained in the family.
Then it came under French rule under Napoleon in 1793, and after the fall of the emperor, the Kingdom of Sardinia took over in 1815. Then Sardinia became Italian and Monaco followed suit and then - now it’s almost doubtful - it became French again. But it didn’t stop there, because in 1943 the Italian fascists invaded the country. Then Mussolini got out of hand, and the Nazis took over - and started deporting the rich Jews.
Monaco is known for its casino, and it dates back to 1863. It generated such huge revenues that the prince stopped collecting taxes.
In 1963, Charles de Gaulle blockaded Monaco when it was used as a tax haven for rich Frenchmen. Monaco was a country for bigwigs and other swindlers, something it has in common with Lichtenstein, San Marino, Andorra, the Channel Islands ... should we also add the Vatican?
But then it’s good that the world audience could drool over the celebrity wedding between Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III. Alas, the poor and their boring impoverished lives can’t get enough of being reflected in celebrities and royals who shamelessly pose in their splendor and wealth.
Why make yourself look good in Hollywood when you can score a prince and live in glamour and luxury in a palace with no view of ugly and poor people? It’s like being a Hollywood star without the dirty work.
Mongolia
- capital: Ulan Bator
A huge but sparsely populated country (only 3.3 million) with endless steppes of grass inhabited and walked by nomads for millennia.
The names of nomadic clans are many: Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran and Göktürk. But the country became an empire because of Genghis Khan in 1206. One could not imagine a so-called ‘sustainable’ Mongolia at that time, because nomadic culture requires this large area per capita, animals as well as people. The windswept steppes are not agricultural land nor suitable for large urban communities, which require an agrarian catchment area + access to the sea, directly or via rivers.
In an industrial world that exploits resources from the subsoil, it is a different story.
Genghis Khan united the scattered Mongol tribes into one nation, making its army the strongest in the world. The forces that had previously fought each other were now united. This meant that the Mongol Empire became the largest in world history through Genghis’ grandson Kublai Khan, who formed the Yuan Dynasty in China - after which the Chinese currency is named. Where Genghis was the ruthless and proud warrior who never forgave, Kublai was the moderate ruler who made room for all differences and created one of the few benevolent empires in world history. The Chinese may disagree here, because the Mongols brought down the incumbent dynasty in Beijing and installed their own dynasty. The Great Wall of China did not prove to be of much use here.
Was it built to keep the Mongols and other nomads out? There is some doubt about that, because the defenses face inward and not outward. That’s another story.
A Mongolian warrior on horseback armed with a light and agile recurve bow capable of firing several arrows per second from horseback was the most serious threat to the agrarian cultures to the west. Where the Mongols rode, the poorly fortified cities suffered heavy losses. It is believed that the phenomenon of the Walled City is directly born of the need to protect themselves from the horsemen from Central Asia. Whether they were Mongols or Scythians, Tartars, Avars, Huns is debatable, and was the term Mongols not just a common jargon?
Mongolia was occupied by the Soviets in 1920. The country’s leader Bogd Khaan died at the hands of’ Russian spies, or in other words: they assassinated him. And a communist government was installed according to the standard Soviet-imperialist pattern.
There is still a preserved, albeit modernized, nomadic culture in Mongolia. You can still experience the annual competitions in Ulaanbaatar, where horse riding and archery are performed. Wrestling is another national sport in Mongolia. Perhaps those glorious bundles of muscle afterwards should enjoy Genghis Khan’s (allegedly) favorite dish: meat roasted over stones that have been in a fireplace until they are burning hot. Or how about Mongolian barbecue, which is sliced camel meat cooked in melted fat?
Genghis Khan’s burial site has been kept hidden by a secret society since his death in 1227, for 800 years. It is said that all those who buried him were executed so that they could not reveal the location.
Montenegro
- capital: Podgorica
The Black Mountains. This land is like a natural castle carved right out of the rock. Even the Ottomans found it too difficult, so they skipped it.
When the Turks invaded the Balkans and Serbia fell in 1389, many shepherds fled to the mountains, and since Montenegro is the ultimate mountain country, they settled here. Before, Montenegro had not been a country but ‘a place’. They lived from agriculture with animals and ... robbery! It was simply a robber baron run by clans, tribesmen like in neighboring Albania! Now they organized themselves in 1421 under Prince Stefan Crnogorai, who established a trading post on the coast and the Adriatic Sea. Because Montenegro has a full coastline.
The Turks did not completely ignore Montenegro, because tribesmen are prone to disagreements from time to time, and the Empire saw this immediately and took advantage of it. However, the Montenegrins nevertheless threw out the Turks/Ottomans as some of the first in the Balkans in 1697 under Prince Danilo Petrović and established a so-called Vladikato. Vlad means prince as in the name Vladimir or Vlad Tepech (Romania’s Count Dracula).
During WW1, Montenegro had to see its mountain fortress overrun for the first time. They allied themselves with the Triple Entente against Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy, which meant that Austrian troops occupied the country. The government had to flee to France, and the army was disarmed. But at the same time, Montenegro was incorporated into the newly formed Yugoslavia as part of Serbia.
During WW2, Montenegro suddenly became part of a kingdom ruled by Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. After the war, they became part of the so-called Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia.
The concept of federation is a rather dubious term. It suggests that it pretends to be the conclusion of a voluntary agreement on cohesion and common policy. It may be. It may also be a cover for ‘Now we are a federation, aren’t we? Well that was good, because otherwise ...’. However, one fact is that in 2003, Montenegro revoked their membership of the federation via a referendum.
Mozambique
- capital: Maputo
The country that has the icons of war, slavery and communism built into their flag. Which is strange in itself, since the flag of the Marxist liberation movement FRELIMO is without these symbols.
FRELIMO was essentially made redundant when the Portuguese did the work for them and deposed Franco and fascism in the Carnation Revolution in 1974. But it was not to be, because the apartheid regime in South Africa and the then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) supported another movement called RENAMO, so the civil war continued until 1992.
FRELIMO received support from such an unexpected group as ... Margaret Thatcher. Which probably rather reflected her and the government’s distance from Ian Smith’s Rhodesia and the apartheid regime in South Africa and the chance to score another member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The Empire has no friends, it only has instruments.
A little flashback.
When Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, he landed on the coast of Mozambique, among other places. Here he could have met the fisherman in the picture. Da Gama was the navigator, the explorer, the scout who had been sent ahead. But later, Portuguese ships arrived in greater numbers, established trading posts and eventually colonized. Co-lo-ni-se-ring: to steal other people’s land and call it your own, including other people’s bodies and their natural resources.
Mozambique was a Portuguese colony until 1975. Recently, Mozambique has experienced new acts of violence carried out by rebel movements. And this time with a sultry stench of the CIA.
Namibia
- capital: Windhoek
Windhoek, the windy place. Here a stiff, dry wind blows across the Namibian desert - the most beautiful desert in the world but still... a desert.
And to make no mistake, Namibia has not one but two deserts, as it also has part of the Kalahari Desert. Here live people who have taught themselves to survive in a bushy desert. They called them Bushmen and Hottentots, but they called themselves the San people.
Namibians should be a rich people. They mine uranium, diamonds in large quantities, lead, zinc, silver and tungsten. Everything they could sell to the industrialized countries of the world ... except that the industrialized countries of the world have seized and stolen the resources and minerals. Or rather: ’they’ don’t do it.
As the Wiki states:
Although Namibia has a GDP that is five times higher than the poorest countries in Africa, most of Namibia’s inhabitants live in poverty due to high unemployment, an uneven distribution of income and the large amounts of income that go to foreigners.
It is a big false myth that diamonds are rare. In the Namibian desert near the diamond mines, there are huge areas where access is prohibited. Here, diamonds lie in mountains behind fences. It is controlled scarcity and controlled rarity. Just like with oil. The rarer, the more expensive. Say the name DeBeers.
The coast of the Namibian desert was called the Skeleton Coast by sailors. The currents and wind conditions mean that ships are easily stranded. On the other hand, it is impossible to get away from the coast, so there are hundreds of shipwrecks - and the skeletons of the sailors who never made it further. A grim mausoleum.
Nauru
- ingen officiel hovedstad
Nauru is the world’s smallest republic, with a population of only 9,378.
Nauru is one of the few sites of German colonialism. The Germans also settled a number of islands in Melanesia north of Australia. Some of them are named after Bismarck.
After WW1, Nauru became a mandated territory under the League of Nations. Deciphering the newspeak: Mandate territory means that you don’t decide a damn thing, but that others = the Empire issues mandates = regulations that you have to follow - without the issuers of the mandate having a mandate for anything. The League of Nations is a construction of Woodrow Wilson and his spin doctors to ‘promote peace after WW1’ = rearrange the World, after it was smashed by the British and Americans in The Great War, WW1.
This was exactly what Wilson had been promised by his spin doctor, Colonel Mandell-House and Dr. Merck, when they said they had a secret weapon that would allow the US to rearrange Europe and the World after the war. The weapon was The Army Flu = The Spanish Flu, which killed 100 million during and after WW1 based on a biochemical weapon developed in US military laboratories and spread via a platoon of deliberately infected and thus doomed soldiers deported to Spain. The strategy has been tried and reused several times since, most recently in 2019-20 as SARS-2 or another name you may know.
Nepal
- capital: Katmandu
Nepal is located on the Roof of the World. Mount Everest is located on the border with Tibet and thus China. 8/10 of the highest mountains in the world are found in Nepal.
China has tried to undermine Nepal’s rule by supporting Maoist groups in the country. They wanted to annex the country, as they did with Tibet. There have been a number of conflicts between India and China, in which the Chinese have provoked.
Nepalese are Hindus and Buddhists. Which is the same, because Buddhism is a school within Hinduism, although they like to feel special. Gautama Buddha was born in southern Nepal. In the special highland version of Buddhism, an old shamanistic religion called Bön is mixed in - probably mostly in Tibetan Buddhism. But after the expulsion from Tibet, large groups of Tibetans have settled in Nepal and northern India.
Nepal is located on a side road of the old Silk Road. It was not until the kingdom of Gorkha in the 1700s that Nepal became a unified territory.
The British used Nepalese Gurkha soldiers as an elite corps. They were known for their fearlessness, loyalty and martial arts. Don’t ask a Gurkha soldier to show you his khukri knife. The rules dictate that once the knife is drawn, it MUST taste blood. If the soldier is polite, he will make a small cut in his own hand so that you keep your head. Its special shape and weight distribution make it something between a machete and an axe.
Trekking tourism is a big industry for Nepal. It is not without problems with all the Western backpackers. Firstly, they don’t put any money into the country. Secondly, many of them are totally uninterested in Nepalese culture and are just there to hang out with others who are like them. And thirdly, they pollute and throw their empty coke bottles and other things everywhere. The neighboring country of Bhutan saw this happening and adopted a completely different style to protect itself.
New Zealand
- capital: Wellington
Were the original inhabitants of New Zealand the Maori? That is, the Polynesians who came from Taiwan between 3,000-1,000 BC. At least that’s what they think. They are certainly much more original than later arrivals who treated them less kindly. There are a few problems, however, and these are accounts of tall, fair-haired people who were there even longer ago and megalithic stone structures of great age - but which the government and local science deny the existence of.
Just as there was a large landmass between Madagascar, India and Australia, there was a large landmass called Zealandia. There were undoubtedly people living there. Are the stone settlements remains of these?
A Dutch explorer Abel Tasman mapped New Zealand and Tasmania in 1642, and had both a sea and an island named after him. A strange custom. Instead of asking the locals what they call the place and its surroundings, they name their place after ... themselves. Could you call it naming imperialism?
In the 1840s, the British annexed the three main islands, which resulted in a series of conflicts with and abuses of the Maori groups, as well as the confiscation of their lands. Like Australia, New Zealand became a so-called dominion, i.e. a constitutionally (illegally) legalized crown colony, where the country was independent on paper but in reality subject to the English crown (owned by the Crown Corporation). Dominion always means supremacy.
The exact same disturbing shift towards a grossly fascist totalitarian state that has taken place in Australia, Canada and a little later in England and the USA has taken place since 2020 in New Zealand. There is clearly a common agenda and strategy behind it, and the same forces in the Empire are pulling these strings. The government has behaved like something between the Soviet state and Pinochet’s Chile.
The female prime minister, who was chosen by the World Economic Forum to be one of their young spearheads, Jacinda Ardern, went to extremes.
Concentration camps were set up for people who tested positive for the virus (with fake tests), and those who refused to be pumped full of vaccines (fake vaccines) were interned for months. The level of draconian measures to shut down the population was unheard of. In 2023 they replaced her, but her successor has promised to hunt down the unvaccinated and stab them.
For a few decades, the Western so-called elite has invested in land and property in New Zealand = the country furthest from almost everything, an island in the South Seas. The reasons are obvious: to get as far away from the crime scene as possible.
Nicaragua
- capital: Managua
Nicarao was an Indian tribe at the time of Columbus’ arrival in 1502 + Agua, water = Indian water. There are two large lakes named Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua.
In the 19th century, it was, together with Guatemala and Costa Rica, the United States of Central America, inspired by the American War of Independence against the British.
The United States constantly interfered in the internal affairs of Central America and in 1933 they occupied Nicaragua. A resistance army led by General Sandino threw them out again. Hence the name of the later known Sandinistas founded in 1961, who had meanwhile become socialists/Marxists. They became parties to the infamous Iran-Contra scandal in 1986.
Iran-Contra, in the elevator version - everything here is in an elevator - was about the US secretly sending weapons to Iran despite an embargo. By selling weapons to the enemy, they were funding a right-wing army in Nicaragua, even though Congress had banned it. Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North was sweating profusely in a congressional hearing, trying to lie his way out of his foxhole.
Niger
- capital: Niamei
The country doesn’t get much out of the river it’s named after. The Niger River flows into neighboring Mali and spreads its waters into neighboring Nigeria. Niger is mostly a large, dry and inhospitable desert, where only hardcore Tuaregs have been able to survive.
Nevertheless, Niger was one of the most important trade routes before the colonial era. Caravans connected North Africa with West Africa, and the great tribal empires of Songhai, Mali, Gau and Hausa believed that the land belonged to them.
So did the French, when they occupied the country as late as 1922 and called it French West Africa, which was an imperial amalgamation of Mauritania, Senegambia (Senegal lumped together with Gambia), Niger, French Sudan = Mali, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta = Burkina Faso and Dahomey = Benin.
Independent in 1960, the magical year for independence in many African countries. In 1993 they tried democracy, but the president tried to change the country’s constitution so that he could be president forever, after which there was a coup d’état.
Recently, Niger, together with other Sahel countries, has begun to cooperate intensively to finally kick out the French, who have been extracting free uranium from Niger for half a century. The Sahel will be a primary battle zone in the coming years between the dying but furious Empire and the nations of the world that deserve better than to be pumping stations for resources for consumption in Europe and the United States.
And what would happen to the French – and the EU economy, if Africa finally pulls the plug? The European economy is build upon extracting free ressources from Africa.
Nigeria
- capital: Lagos
The most populous country in Africa with a population of 225 million. Named after the Niger River, egerew n-igerewen in the Tuareg language.
The capital Lagos is the African experimentarium for the globalists in metropolis = the creation of gigantic metropolises, big cities where the population can be crammed together and controlled.
Nigeria has one of the world’s largest oil productions. But the globalists and their oil companies have ‘forgotten’ to place oil refineries in Nigeria, so the impoverished Nigerians have to buy refined oil at high prices from abroad made from the oil extracted from their own underground.
In case anyone is in doubt, this grotesque resource misery is due to British colonialism in the 19th century, when the British divided Nigeria into a northern protectorate and a southern protectorate. Protectorate = an occupied territory where the occupying power can do whatever it wants.
This is how the British Empire saw and treated their colonies as a side note to themselves
The country became independent in 1960 and, like ALL liberated protectorates-colonies-slave states, fell victim to years of post-colonial civil wars-military rulers-disputes-u-name-it.
There are about 500 local language dialects spoken in Nigeria, so they felt it was necessary to declare English as an uber-dialect. There are just as many tribal religions here, so for the sake of simplicity, the country is divided between Islam, Christianity and Tribal Religion (Igbo, Yoruba).
Since Nigeria has Africa’s largest economy - which the population does not notice much - they also have the greatest attention from the post-colonialists / neo-imperialists - which the population certainly notices.
North Korea
- capital: Pyongyang
First of all: North and South Korea should never be written about separately, because it is an imperialist construct that should be considered temporary. That would be like Vietnam still being divided. Or Germany.
The Koreans are a tribe that, like the Chinese and other peoples of East Asia, migrated down from Mongolia. Korea has been a country and a culture for 3,000 years.
In the year zero, Korea was divided between three clans, and in 680 they were united into one kingdom. In 1392, the Yi Emperor of China chose a new name for the country, which had been allowed to rule independently as long as they did not interfere with his decisions: Choson, the Name of Morning Silence.
Korea is not much for other people’s names. They are like Poland in Europe, who hate both Germans and Russians (and now Ukrainians). Koreans hate both right and left, Japanese and Chinese. Maybe because they are situated like a long, thin burger between two buns, both of which are squeezed.
In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War took place and the Japanese conquered Manchuria. Teddy Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the war (not for all his other wartime passions, such as the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Massacre). But in 1905, a secret agreement was reached, the Taft-Katsuro Agreement, for a joint American-Japanese administration of Korea and its weakened dynasty. This was, of course, with the railway project in mind. Durham White Stephens was installed as the Korean king’s Grima Wormtongue and became known as the ‘White Korean Dictator’.
In 1908, The Righteous Army Rebellion arose in Korea, consisting of early Korean soldiers trained by the Japanese. They shot their way out of Seoul until they were stopped by the Japanese. Durham Stephens declared in an interview that the Koreans would suffer the same fate as the Filipinos, namely mass extermination. Shortly thereafter, Stephens was assassinated in San Francisco by two Korean snipers. The tactic was pistols hidden in bandages. Both men were imprisoned, but one escaped that same year, and the other was released later and returned to Korea, where he was celebrated as a folk hero.
The Americans took revenge for that, because in 1956 they COMPLETELY destroyed Korea, and all the cities in the country were bombed to pieces. Such simple and shallow revenge was one of the basic motives. Another motive must be sought in the end of WW2. Japan was in no way on its knees after Hiroshima-Nagasaki, and the capitulation was an illegitimate play, because WW2 continued until 1953. In fact, one can argue with full force that it never ended, but that is going too far.
Read: The War the Noone Understands
However, Japan had the majority of its army and weapons production facilities on the Korean Peninsula, specifically in Conan or Hungnam, where three rivers converged to form a power plant that produced enough electricity to supply all of Japan. Very few people are aware that Japan had nuclear weapons at the end of WW2, produced right here, and even fewer that they were used when the Russians advanced after the fall of Berlin. The way they were stopped was via a so-called Little Boy, different from the Big Boy that the Americans used. The impact was in what is now a demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
Here the Russians wisely choose to retreat. As is well known, the Americans chose to show that their bombs were bigger and dirtier.
The Americans knew that the Japanese were still in Korea, and in 1956 they decided to completely annihilate the northern part of Korea with the usual pretext that they wanted to save the world from the bad guys and introduce good democracy (the Monroe Doctrine). And we believed them and sent Jutlandia over to clean up the mess.
South Korea today is still an occupied country, because there are 50,000 American soldiers in the country, and the United States determines their domestic and especially foreign policy. North Korea can be said very briefly: It is an ongoing CIA operation, and all the fuss with Kim Jon Yoon and -Il is pure theater for the global public.
North Macedonia
- capital: Skopje
Oldtidens Makedonien var en såkaldt polis, en bystat. Der er herfra, vi har begrebet civilisation, et samfund bygget op som en bystat. Nutidens herskere har ikke opgivet denne oldgamle ambition om at herske fra byens borg.
Alexander den Store kaldte sig selv for Makedoner. De betragtede paradoksalt nok grækerne som barbarer. Han var uddannet som hellener og havde som spindoktor ingen ringere end filoffen Aristoteles.
Why not just the Republic of Macedonia? Because the Greeks believe that Macedonia is a place in Greece, and Alexander the Great came from there, so they own the name. As recently as 2019, the country changed its name to North Macedonia. It won’t be easy.
Formerly part of Yugoslavia, but as part of the breakup of the Balkans after the fall of the Iron Curtain - the Empire unites and rules, then divides and rules - it became Macedonia.
Norway
- capital: Oslo
Norway has an area of 10x Denmark with the same population. So there is plenty of space. From the 13th century to 1814, Norway was part of the Danish kingdom.
Norway was occupied by the Germans in 1940-45, who saw the Norwegian coast as a bulwark and preventive defense against the English. Due to the ‘deep’ landscapes in Norway, there was - in contrast to the flat Denmark - a greater opportunity for an effective resistance struggle.
The first inhabitants that we have the opportunity to describe arrived when the ice retreated 12,000 years ago. Here we should also consider that between Denmark-Friesland-England there was a very large land area that was inhabited called Doggerland. The ice bound a lot of water, which made room for a lot of land. This land disappeared when the ice melted. In return, new land arrived, released from the great deep freezer.
One of the great Norwegian kings of the Viking Age was Harald Fairhair. He was also one of the most brutal. Because of his totalitarian regime, many emigrated to Iceland to escape his tyranny.
It is said about the Vikings that the Danish Vikings were the smartest and most well-organized, the Swedish Vikings were the most peaceful, and the Norwegians were the most vicious and ruthless. Is there a reflection of the landscape and nature here?
In the 20th century, the Norwegians found a gigantic pile of oil in the North Sea, which Danish politicians were stupid enough to leave to them. The Norwegian ‘deep’ state is shoveling money into the oil, but the Norwegian people have been told that they cannot share in the profits that are set aside in state funds for better times. We believe this and some Norwegians saw it that way. The Norwegian elite stole the oil adventure, stuffed it into their own pockets and fed people with cucumbers that cost 80 Danish kroner each. In 2011, Norway was subjected to an act of terrorism. 77 young people at a summer camp on Utöya near Oslo were massacred, and the culprit was, as is customary in liquidations and mass murders, proclaimed to be a single deranged man named Anders Breivik. There are deep and bloody traces to the then Norwegian Prime Minister Olaf Stoltenberg (and his son), who was subsequently rewarded with a NATO cap as successor to the former Danish Prime Minister, who had participated in similar bloody abuses (Iraq, Afghanistan, EU). Just one common fist: LIES!
When there was a recent sabotage attack on the Russian-German North Stream oil pipeline, it has emerged that Norway - and Denmark - have played a very active role, to say the least. After the sabotage - which was demonstrably carried out with a mini-nuke (although the media is not surprisingly clean on this matter) - the Norwegians are offering to supply oil instead of the Russians - at ‘slightly increased prices’. The timing seems a bit striking.
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Really fascinating take on how Madagascar's colonial legacy still shapes its economic autonomy today. The detail about the French billing locals for teh costs of their own conquest is such a stark example of extractive imperialism. I saw something similar when visiting former colonies where infrastructure was built solely to extract resources, not develop local economies. What's especially interesting is Rajoelina's herbal remedy stance during the pandemic, which kinda echoes broader tensions between island nations trying to assert economic independence and global pharmaceutical interests. The geographic isolation that made Madagascar unique biologically also made it vulnerable economically.