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"If the United States and any/all other countries supposedly responsible for third world poverty would disappear or have never developed, the third world would be just as poor as it is now, or has ever been. "

Much, much poorer, I believe. However, they would be spared their envy of the Western countries that drives so much hatred towards us.

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Much, much poorer, I believe. However, they would be spared their envy of the Western countries that drives so much hatred towards us.

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You put your finger on it exactly. The problem is not that the U. S. has created poverty in third war nations. The problem is that the difference in economic levels has created angry cryptically stated demands for redistribution of the American economic level throughout the degenerate world.