I mean, a lot of it comes from oil. Of course, other countries with oil are said to have "The Oil Curse," where the presence of oil magically causes political instability in countries that are eligible for US foreign policy intervention :us-foreign-policy:

Most of the profits of neocolonialism stay in the pockets of the corporations which hold colonial assets and which rarely pay taxes to anyone.

i mean, at least Norway has a sovereign wealth fund based on resource extraction royalties which is better than most other countries can say

but it's then invested into equity markets so :yea:

take the EU's word for it

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