>>17481791>Italian occupation was for less than 2 decades.That was enough to fuck up the country and leave it in a bad spot during the Cold War.
>are you telling me that strict border controls are a good thing?Weird time for affirmation-pasta.
>Haiti signed away their nation for France to recognize their independence...?The alternative was France invading with a professional army and killing everyone there.
>arable land is a very small issue when you live on an island. the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic are not far away. That's only if you can import food or get enough to sustain yourselves from fishing. They couldn't.
>Before it was Zimbabwe and ran by blacks it was called Rhodesia and was a nation that was prosperous.Rhodesia was an absolute failure for the vast majority of its subjects. The only ones who considered it a success were members of a white minority. By this logic, you could consider any country a success so long as there's at least one demographic, no matter how small, that enjoys life. Picrel.