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Colonial attitudes are alive and well, which is how, for example, IPv4 space assigned to AfriNIC, the regional internet registry for the African continent, ends up in the hands of US hosters, and then used by German spammers.

It is why the US Department of Defense has more IPv4 address space than the entire African continent combined.

Then there was that thing around how RIPE handled the allocations on an entire Class A, 185/8;

https://labs.ripe.net/author/wilhelm/so-long-last-8-and-thanks-for-all-the-allocations/

The process was abused. Shocking!