@Chipthemonk To assist your imagination, consider Japan. It wasn't colonised (in fact it eventually became a coloniser) but found its own path to development.
@Chipthemonk@boyi Point is, before being colonised, India was at a similar level of tech to Japan; some would say India's textiles were ahead. So if left to themselves, what makes you think they wouldn't have built railways etc. as Japan did? Likewise, Ethiopia already had roads, courts etc. when briefly occupied by Italy. The Italians' advantage was an air force & poison gas.
@Chipthemonk What you say about being advanced is true if defined militarily. So they "needed to be colonised" because they were unable to repel colonisers (as Japan did, and as Ethiopia did until the 1930s)?
@cypherpunks Never mind the Freudian slip about Iraq; it's a tradition started by Dubya. More remarkable: Jack Texeira was clapped in irons & vanished for allegedly leaking internal documents suggesting that Putin is winning and the NATO establishment deliberately lying about it. And the spin continues as if it didn't happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8e_v56lMSU
Dutch king makes historic apology for his country’s colonial past (www.politico.eu)
Biden: Putin is clearly losing the war in Iraq (www.youtube.com)