"Captain_Scar..
I'm not a white supremacist, or any kinda supremacist. But I'm just saying. Rhodesia was doing way better than modern day zimbabwe."
When you feel compelled to start off by claiming to not be what no one hasn't even accused you of, that pretty much serves as a confession as far as the reader is concerned.
The horror show that was Rhodesia was doing way better - for the Brits. Stripped of that and its other colonial holdings, what's left of the still shrinking UK amply displays why.