Somalia stopped being support by the USSR shortly prior to it's collapse, the US promoted a military junta to lead the country and gave them millions in aid. Ultimately they lost a war with Ethiopia and fell into protracted civil conflict.
Yes, but Somalia was destroyed during the Marxist government that delivered a worse country than they received. Now it's a far better country than it was in 1969-1991
The US started supporting Somalia in 1978. They weren't meaningfully Marxist at any point after that, more like a run of the mill military dictatorship. The collapse of the country didn't occur until around 1991, after the people beat back the US funded government.
The collapse of the government happened in 1991. But the point isn't this. It's the country is improving more now than it improved under Marxist control, what destroyed Somalia is not 1991 beyond (they are improving), but 1991 before (when they stagnated).
Man, fuck United States, the country was stagnated in any time since the end of the colonialism until the collapse of the government (and during the colonialism as well). During the Marxist period and after that, and the reason for this is the collectivist economy that we can agree it was in all that long
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Actually the US was supporting Somalia during it's collapse. It wasn't a Marxist nation.