It may be that the recent interminable "civil" wars in resource rich areas are due to interested powers desiring continued conflict, in order to extract requisite resources at low cost. When warring parties off-load the regions resources in exchange for weapons, they tend to sell their resources at bargain price. The "freedom fighters" in these regions are nothing more than organized crime syndicates raping the region for short-term profit for the benefit of developed worlds. These wars are proxy imperial conquests using local thugs to extract and ship desired resources in exchange for weapons no longer utilized by civilized armies.
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Hit the nail right on the head! Note that major world powers tend to be much more effective at quashing these civil wars when the desired resource requires significant infrastructure to extract that would be impossible to establish and maintain under these civil war-ridden states.