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Weird how racial tensions become important more than ever during election times but governments bomb the shit out of countries and kill children but ok... Guess you know where I'm going with this. Give your time to audience and you play the fiddle; Give your time to life and become the song that doesn't need a fiddle.

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• These campaigns required massive resource allocation (troops, logistics, administration) and created a multi-ethnic empire reliant on tribute, land taxes, and coerced labor rather than voluntary market-driven growth. While it secured buffers and resources, it entrenched feudal-like systems, ethnic tensions, and non-capitalist extraction—diverting potential investment away from modernization. • Link to failure to thrive: The “conquering domains” response to proximity drained resources that could have gone toward industrialization or education. Combined with external trade chokepoints, it locked Ethiopia into a low-productivity, inward-focused economy. Pre-colonial African polities often depended on trade duties and raids for revenue; colonial control over external trade made those fragile and unsustainable. researchgate.net 4. Broader Economic and Geopolitical Outcomes: Isolation Reinforced Backwardness • Colonial powers had incentives to keep a weak but independent Ethiopia as a buffer state. It served their commercial interests (access to interior products via controlled routes) without the costs of direct rule, while preventing any single rival from dominating the Horn. One analysis notes European preference for a “technologically backward and dependent” Ethiopian ruling class to maintain economic utility without conflict among colonizers. ndl.ethernet.edu.et • This proximity dynamic contributed to prolonged poverty: limited capital inflows, restricted technology transfer, and vulnerability to external shocks (e.g., arms blockades). Ethiopia remained one of Africa’s poorest for much of the 20th century, despite independence—exacerbated later by internal factors like the Derg regime’s communism (1974–1991). • Contrast with colonized cases like Vietnam (French rule, wars, then Doi Moi reforms) shows that external pressures alone don’t doom a country if post-crisis policies emphasize institutions, trade openness, and human capital. Ethiopia’s encirclement was real but not deterministic. In short, the “proximity” mechanism worked through colonial conquest of adjacent domains (coasts/trade routes), which isolated Ethiopia, imposed trade dependencies, and forced resource-intensive defensive expansions. This restricted its economic agency and contributed to stagnation—not as the sole cause of poverty (post-colonial governance and culture played huge roles, as the original post argues), but as a credible historical pressure that made thriving harder. Ethiopia’s survival as independent was remarkable, but the economic cost of encirclement was steep. Blaming colonialism exclusively ignores agency and successes elsewhere, but dismissing these geographic/trade realities also overlooks documented history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​"

Grok: Proximity to colonial powers during the late 19th- and early 20th-century Scramble for Africa did create significant structural pressures on uncolonized neighboring territories like Ethiopia, effectively isolating them economically and limiting their ability to integrate into global trade on their own terms. This wasn’t direct colonization but a form of encirclement that funneled trade, restricted access to ports and arms, and forced defensive internal expansions—mechanisms that can be described as “pressurizing neighboring lands into resource restriction and failure to thrive through conquering domains.” Here’s a step-by-step historical breakdown based on the dynamics around Ethiopia (the example tied to the linked post). 1. Encirclement and Effective Landlocking: Colonial Conquest of Surrounding Domains Cut Off Sea Access • By the 1880s–1890s, European powers (Italy in Eritrea/parts of Somalia, France in Djibouti, Britain in British Somaliland and Sudan) had colonized the coastal and Red Sea regions that had historically served as Ethiopia’s (Abyssinia’s) outlets to global trade. Ethiopia had long relied on Red Sea ports for exporting goods like coffee, ivory, gold, and slaves, and importing arms, technology, and manufactured items. researchgate.net • This conquest of “domains” (coastal territories and trade routes) transformed Ethiopia from a historically connected highland empire into an effectively landlocked one by the early 20th century. Trade now had to pass through foreign-controlled ports and infrastructure, such as the French-built Djibouti–Addis Ababa railway (completed 1917), which gave colonial powers leverage over tariffs, routing, and volumes. ndl.ethernet.edu.et • Result: Resource restriction. Ethiopia could not freely exploit or export its interior resources without colonial intermediaries skimming profits or imposing restrictions. Colonial powers often prioritized their own monopolies (e.g., on certain commodities) and used tariffs or exclusive company rights to channel flows in ways that benefited their empires, not Ethiopia’s development. This created dependency rather than open-market growth. 2. Trade and Frontier Pressures: Negotiated Access Under Threat of Conquest • Ethiopian rulers (notably Yohannes IV and Menelik II) actively corresponded with colonial powers in the 1880s to secure trade treaties, technology imports, and frontier agreements while preserving sovereignty. Documents from this era show repeated efforts to open Ethiopia to “legitimate trade” without ceding control. archive.org library.oapen.org • Proximity meant constant negotiation from weakness: colonial navies protected their trade routes, and European powers could (and did) coordinate to block arms shipments across their territories. A key example is 1935, when Britain and France refused to allow Ethiopian arms transshipment during the Italian invasion, exacerbating vulnerability. researchgate.net • This created a chilling effect: to avoid provoking full-scale conquest (as nearly happened with Italy in 1896 at Adwa, which Ethiopia won, and again in 1935–41), leaders had to prioritize military readiness and internal stability over broad economic openness or investment. Resources were diverted toward defense and diplomacy rather than infrastructure or markets. 3. Defensive Internal “Conquering of Domains”: Expansion as Survival Strategy • To counter external encirclement and generate revenue/tribute in a trade-constricted environment, Ethiopian emperors expanded southward into territories of Oromo, Sidama, Somali, and other groups (late 19th century). This incorporated new lands, peoples, and resources into the empire through conquest and settlement—sometimes described as Ethiopian “settler colonialism” or internal imperialism. degruyterbrill.com vdoc.pub Continues... x.com/i/grok/share/f…

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