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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

after the West pulled the plug out of South-Africa and Rhodesia, those regimes imploded.

This. I don't think most people realize/remember just how supportive governments in countries like the US and UK were towards Apartheid South Africa before the people made it clear we don't want to support that stuff.