Over 100,000% inflation possible?

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Kasz216 said:

Yeah the Zimbabwe situation sucks, and isn't going to get better anytime soon, since the strongest actions the UN has taken so far is that England was banning them from a Cricket tournament. Though since Zimbabwe was a founding country all that might of did was lost England hosting rights.

The UN doesn't do crap to help people and instead just acts as an excuse to prevent nations from actually doing anything. That's what happens when you let in all the brutal murdering despotic governments with everyone else.

Things are tough like that though, when your first elected president turns into a despotic insane lunatic.

It's a shame too... he was the one who most helped secure their independence... they voted for him, and find they were better off with the devil they didn't vote for.

Instead of training farmers and doing a slow removal of white people from the lands with skilled farmers they took the lands from the white people before training any farmers... and he gave all the land to himself and his followers... and now the lands remain fallow... because few have the knowledge to work them, and even those that do don't own the lands. Instead they have to live in shanty towns... or rather they did before they were demolished... despite the fact that the current president told them to go there in the first place. Probably because those who were most poor were of course those least happy with his rule, and it's much easier for him to control people in the country then it is united outside big cities.

The inability of the UN to intervene in various African crises has nothing to do with the presence of despotic nations in the UN. It has everything to do with no powerful member states having anything to gain from intervening in African crises.

The UN authorized interventions in Kosovo and Afghanistan because they were justified and because powerful member states (NATO in both cases) had an interest in intervening. The UN also authorized intervening in Somalia, which was a failure, largely because no powerful member states actually had security concerns which could be addressed with a successful intervention in Somalia. Since then, crisis after crisis have gone unanswered in Africa, not because they aren't justified missions, but because no powerful member state has anything to gain that's worth the price of another Somalia (or worse).

If such a state had an interest in trying to rescue Zimbabwe, you can bet that the UN would authorize the mission.