If thats the case, why can other nations stand up so easily even after colonialization and western occupation? Why are japan, china, south-korea and taiwan successes? Why did australia succeed? Why is Chile succeeding? If keeping western powers at bay is all it takes- why is north korea and cuba not a singapor? Why is singapor thriving?

This whole narrative gets more implaussible by the day, the more you look at it. And by defending it, and not trying to look for the real issues, those who push it - further the only counter-quack-narrative, which is basically racism.

It sounds like the rambling of a homeless men by now, inventing invisible foes to justify all bad and random events happening to him.