If you wade through all his politically correct bona fides, there is a message there.
The White regime was NOT nasty and brutish. It was under near constant attack by Soviet-supported “liberation” Marxists, and then later, even the left-wing, by the PC Govts of the UK and the USA. The only choice for the White Rhodesians, who had been there for centuries, was to circle-the-wagons and fight.
If Rhodesia had been “left alone” (an impossibility, I know) I am convinced it would now be an African Hong Kong or Singapore. Yes, minority whites would have disproportionate wealth, but it would a peaceful, very wealthy country, and would have developed a black governing elite as well, with a multi-racial Government with a solid rule of law.
I know the Rhodesia story all too well.
The blame rests squarely on Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young for the fall of Ian Smith and the entrance of Robert Mugabe...ANC backed Marxist murderers.