Am I wrong when I say that throughout the history Europe was the most advanced one?
If by history you mean ever since the invasions began where colonizers destroyed other countries to steal their resources, then yes in that short history you are correct but the history is not 200-300 years, it is thousands of years and in most of that time Europe was actually far behind the East. Not to mention that many of what we call country today didn't even exist that long.
Even gun power that was the start of the invasions and pillages by the West was actually invented in the East.
As I already said the history is like a sinusoidal wave.
I don't say other countries are stupid but their governance led to atrophy of talented people.
You are somewhat on the right path here. At the end of the day we have nobody to blame by ourselves. To blame colonizers for colonizing is like blaming water for being wet. For example England is a teeny tiny island and if you remove the non-developed area that leaves it with a measly 11000 km², considering the lack of natural resources and the harsh living environment you can see why they started invading the world starting from their neighbors.
At some point everyone realizes this and learns from their mistakes in the history and start the change. What we see in the New World Order today with new organizations like SCO and BRICS is the result of those who realized this decades ago and started the change.
I don't know much about Iraq (only know that EU didn't participate in it except Poland and UK)
The murderous group that invaded Iraq and killed 1.4 million civilians (40% women and children) was referred to as "coalition of the willing" (you can search it and learn some history) and it included 49 countries according to
Whitehouse archives.
To name a few: UK, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and of course Ukraine. Some countries like Costa Rica went back and forth with their supports, some countries like Solomon Islands didn't send troops officially but mostly as "volunteers" to join the murders.
Why isn't Iraq like UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar? If there was not the involvement of the USA, would Iraq be peaceful country with high quality of life, high human development index with freedom of speech and freedom of human rights?
First of all it is absurd to talk about human rights and freedom of speech and mention Saudi regime in the same sentence when the smallest thing they've done was to chop up the Washington Post journalist and dissolve his pieces in acid bath.
As for Iraq, you can't talk about a country with a very narrow view. What we call Iraq today is the result of the British separation of parts of the Ottoman Empire in the 20th century and is again one of those "creations" (like I mentioned above with the water wars) that are designed to be a natural issue for centuries.
The "quality of life" etc that you are talking about today is the result of decades of foreign intervention, stupid decision and finally in recent times the result of rule of the Washington's dearest friend and ally Saddam.
I'd say the beginning of the downfall of Iraq was in early 1980's when Saddam decided to listen to US and start the largest land battles since World War II with his neighbor in an area bigger than Europe for 8 years which he ended up losing. He started it just because he thought the post revolution Iran that was isolated and surrounded by the enemies could be easily defeated specially since he had the support and troops from majority of the world (60+ countries) and this included the two super powers of the time US and USSR!
As he failed to fulfill US interests in overthrowing democracy in Iran to install the same US back dictator, he had lost his usage so the sanctions began, so the US media started to call this once US ally a dictator, hence the bombings began for 10 years until 2003 when the full scale invasion started.
It's just my personal opinion but I think the whole world uses Afghanistan for own illegal activities, including illegal selling of weapons, afghan drug imports and money laundering.
Only in the past couple of hundred years Afghanistan, this once beautiful and modern place, has been the battle field of different empires. Which is where the statement "Afghanistan is the place where Empires die" comes from. The Brits, the Soviets and finally the Americans have all invaded Afghanistan and each have destroyed it in their own ways.
Okay, let's imagine that US sanctions are eliminated. Do you really think that now corrupt people will say: Okay, now we have no excuse to not pay back the money borrowed for imports? Oh my goodness, no. Corruption has the strongest and deepest routes. Once it's sowed, it's impossible to erase. There is only one way to erase it and it's to grow a new population with the ideology that corruption is bad. Old people, who were corrupt, can't be changed.
Corruption is in human nature, if you search about it you will find numerous cases in both US and Europe. In fact many European countries have a very low corruption index (ie high level of corruption) like Ukraine, Albania, Serbia, Turkey (if you count it in Europe!), Moldova, etc.
That's just the very biased CPI, case by case we can find big corruption cases in everywhere. For instance the National Audit Office of UK publishes some censored statistics every now and then and the estimated average of total frauds is over $100 billion in recent years.
The point is that it is racist to think corruption only exist outside of Europe and it exists because people don't know it is bad! If anything corruption in Europe is a lot worse because of the circumstances. eg. EU is not under any sanctions nor is it in any cold war, at least hasn't been until last year.
Final questions:
Does EU give you asylum protection?
Does EU give you free healthcare even if you are an asylum/refugee?
Does EU give you free high quality education?
Does EU give you free money and housing when you claim an asylum?
Do European taxpayers pay for all of these?
What we get in return? Those who got asylum, our free money, free healthcare and free education, are raping women and children, are killing people in the street, are robbing houses, are shoplifting and so on.
They take 470,000 troops and completely destroy 6 countries in 20 years and cause the dislocation of tens of millions of people. Some of which find their way to Europe seeking asylum. Out of those who survive the NATO bombings, many die trying to get into Europe. Specially these days that some EU countries like UK are sinking their ships to get rid of them. A small portion that enter Europe are treated harshly and their belongings are confiscated to cover the "cost of their asylum" (eg. the Jewelry Law in Denmark that lets the police seize anything that costs more than a grand).
Why don't you wanna talk about these, what we give and what we get? If I visit Iran/Iraq to claim asylum, will they treat me the way we treat refugees in our countries?
Considering that how over the past 20 years as US+EU coalition has been directly or indirectly involved in wars in most of Iran's neighbors (Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan) and how Iran has been the gracious host to millions of refugees from these countries providing them with homes, jobs, education, etc. the answer to your question is no you won't be treated the way EU treats refugees.
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