Conquer South America.

Then Middle East.

Then the world!

Greenland didn't even pay lip service to being on the side of the US?

I'm surprised.

I thought greenland was owned by denmark?

Technically some of those African regions can be counted as first world for a time by virtue of having been colonies

Eh.

What makes greenland so third world

Neutrality

why isnt north Korea third world?

Association with the communist bloc

1st 2nd and 3rd world referred to capitalism communism and other repsectively

I think the terms people actually mean to use are developed, developing, and shithole

_nowadays_ its kinda used as a derrogatory term for countries

Why do you guys want to take responsibility for the third world? Look at the average IQ of those countries. They will never change. Colonies were never profitable and "conquerring" them will be even more expensive than the foreign aid today.

China disagrees with that

They seem to think Africa will be very profitable. But they also don’t have much concern for human rights so that tends to allow them to keep costs low

China going to learn the lesson the hardway

to be fair those countries also don't care about human rights

I, like most americans, could care less about africa lol

also I was thinking you guys were using the first second and third world model to describe economic success. Thats the only way in which I have heard it used

~~kinda could be perceived that way~~ Soviets were only eating slightly more than africans at the time so

China doesnt really take over the countries though. They take ports and a few key industries and than they have the countries government under control. I have not heard that they get involved in domestic politics or craft legislation.

well, what do you mean by crafting policy. because they get policies crafted that diverst recources towards their projects

or allow them exclusive access to resources

If you just mean like broader social policies or things like income tax then sure, that seems to be the case

I ment apart from that. they dont get involved in how the countries are run they only care for politics when it involves them. So not really taking over the country in a colonial sense and someone implied earlier countries would benefit from the US taking over. If you dont get involved in social policy those peoples lifes wont change. If anything taking the recources will worsen their lot.

Like I said prior, 1st world is allied with the 'states, 2nd world is starvin Ivan's and 3rd world is neutrals

Also the IQ thing is a bit suspect, mostly because you're not controlling for any factors other than "it ain't here"

It's not that you can't unfuck these places, it's that they're not on the right trajectory to unfucking at the moment, barring maybe Chinese colonization, which would be regrettable for other reasons

what do you mean? I dont think you will be able to get a society that you or I would call functioning with a population with an average IQ of 59

you might improve the society if you implement a strucure in which smarter people rule in these places but there will be a ceiling.

a rather low one

While I'm sure IQ varies some regionally, I really have to doubt those studies that say there are countries with sub 60 average IQs. If your society has an average 60 IQ it wouldn't just be a shithole, you would all be dead

have you looked at those people? they can barly speak

their languages are a joke

a quick google search show only one country with an IQ that low

also how do you measure the average iq in those countries

and what would you do with that country?

Anything under 80 I press X to doubt