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Le Conseil des ministres moldave a approuvé le retrait du pays des accords-cadres de la CEI. Le ministre des Affaires
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La Moldavie a lancé le processus de sortie de la Communauté des États indépendants, a annoncé le ministre des Affaires
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La déclaration de la présidente moldave Maia Sandu, se disant prête à voter pour le rattachement de son pays à
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Dans cette édition de « ICI MOSCOU », Xavier Moreau revient sur la crise politique en France, la livraison de
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(They did not call ICE. They did not bloviate. They are not looking for other countries to send their criminals to. They did not hesitate. They did not shoot at their neighbor. They did not shoot little boats in the oceans to smithereens. Their Public Security planned perfectly and WACK-A-MYANMAR-MOLE. Myanmar breathes a sigh of relief. They are not bypassing legal procedures. They are not torturing and putting people in alligator Alcatraz. Even in civilizational societies, crime needs to be dealt with. This is how civilizationals do it. Will Afghanistan and Pakistan take a hint here?)
Through joint law-enforcement operations, Chinese and Myanmar police authorities have arrested more than 57,000 Chinese nationals suspected of fraud, dealing a devastating blow to the notorious four criminal clans in Kokang region, northern Myanmar, according to a statement released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on Wednesday.
Recently, cases against the Wei and Liu family criminal syndicates were brought to prosecution. At present, all cases against the notorious “four criminal clans” in Kokang region have entered the judicial channels, the statement said.
In August 2023, the MPS tasked police in Quanzhou and Longyan, in East China’s Fujian Province, to separately carry out probes into the Wei and Liu criminal groups based in Kokang. On October 1, 2023, the Chinese police arrested nine important criminal suspects from the Wei and Liu criminal clans, including Wei Qingtao and Liu Zhengqi, on the border of Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, according to the statement.
In December 2023, after gathering substantial evidence of illegal and criminal conduct by the Wei and Liu criminal clans, the police department issued reward-based wanted notices for suspects including Wei Huairen and Liu Zhengxiang, the statement said.
On January 30, 2024, under the China-Myanmar law enforcement and security cooperation mechanism, Myanmar police transferred suspects they had earlier captured — including Wei Huairen, Liu Zhengxiang, and Liu Zhengmao — to Chinese authorities.
Chinese police made four high-risk trips into northern Myanmar under the cooperation framework, recovering victims’ remains, tools used in the crimes, and substantial physical and documentary evidence. More than 1,000 police from Quanzhou and Longyan travelled to 28 provinces and regions across the country to collect evidence from telecom-fraud victims, according to the statement.
Since 2009, the Wei criminal syndicate in Kokang, led by Wei Huairen and Wei Qingtao, leveraged its family’s influence in local political, military and economic spheres to build 31 telecom-fraud parks. They solicited and attracted “investors” of telecom network fraud to move in, collected fees such as site rents, security charges, headcount fees, commissions and profit shares, and carried out illegal activities including telecom network fraud and online gambling, according to the statement.
The Wei group operated casinos and sex-entertainment venues, expanded prostitution, gambling, and drug businesses, reaping huge illicit profits, the statement said.
Police said the Wei syndicate is suspected of fraud, murder, intentional injury, kidnapping, extortion, running casinos, illegal detention, organizing prostitution, drug trafficking, permitting drug use, and organizing illegal border crossings. The group’s activities resulted in the deaths of eight Chinese nationals, involved over 5 billion yuan ($702 million) in fraud-related funds, over 9 billion yuan in gambling-related funds, and yielded more than 19 million yuan in illegal profits from organized prostitution, said the statement.
Since 2018, the Liu criminal clan, led by Liu Zhengxiang and Liu Zhengqi, has relied on the “Fully Light” group founded by Liu Zhengxiang to develop 28 telecom-fraud parks. They attracted “investors” for telecom and online fraud by taking equity, entering into partnerships, providing premises and network support, and by stationing armed forces to carry out armed intimidation and violent control. In collusion with these fraud backers, the Liu group jointly carried out telecom and online fraud, extortion, illegal detention, and other criminal activities, according to the statement.
The Liu criminal group operated casinos and sex-entertainment venues; developed prostitution, gambling, and drug industries; organized, solicited, and deceived people into illegal cross-border smuggling; and engaged in other crimes, including opening casinos, organizing prostitution, and trafficking drugs, from which it derived enormous economic profits, said the statement.
According to investigations by the public security authorities, the Liu criminal group is suspected of multiple crimes, including fraud, extortion, illegal detention, operating casinos, organizing prostitution, drug trafficking and organizing others to cross national borders illegally. The funds involved include more than 2.6 billion yuan from fraud and over 8 billion yuan from gambling; nude-chat extortion amounts to more than 17 million yuan, and illicit proceeds from organizing prostitution exceed 16 million yuan.
En Moldavie, les partis d’opposition ont remporté 48 des 101 sièges du Parlement à l’issue des élections de dimanche. Selon
L’article Malgré des manipulations, le parti de Sandu en léger recul aux législatives moldaves est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
Today, we turn our attention to global geopolitics. As we have said several times in this blog, the Western world has squandered its five-hundred-year run of global dominance. Drunk on plunder, sustained by oceans of blood, and blinded by insatiable greed, gluttonous avarice, and stupendous arrogance of exceptionalism, Westerners could not imagine a world where they would no longer call the shots. Their racial arrogance engendered by stupendous ignorance would not allow that.
While the cretinous collective West with all its hubris continues to play empire with its decaying NATO toys and its hollow chants of “rules-based order,” the real tectonic plates of power are shifting under its feet. Anyone with eyes could see that global geopolitics is being remolded in real-time.
Recently, China’s President Xi Jinping quietly but decisively unveiled a vision that may be remembered as the funeral dirge of Western hegemony—the Global Governance Initiative (GGI). It rests on five cornerstones:
Although the stenographers who parrot official talking points as journalists in the West pretended that they did not hear, and, on the surface, President Xi’s words may sound like platitudes for a world summit brochure, we should not be deceived.
In geopolitical terms, Xi’s declaration is a bombshell, a paradigm shift, a rewriting of the global architecture born after the Second World War.
The Chinese president, in effect, announced the birth of a post-Western world order.
For decades, I have cried that the West needed to change gear. It needed to stop behaving like a bloated aristocrat living on stolen inheritance and squandering it with reckless abandon, fighting useless wars for example. I cautioned Westerners that it was necessary to rein in their greed and learn to live in a world where other civilizations also have a right to exist and prosper.
Of course, drunk on hubris, they would not listen to me. Still inebriated from their self-generated triumphalistic hurrahs over the collapse of the Soviet Union, they continue with their sanctions, more bombs, and more lectures about “human rights” given by people whose history is a museum of crimes against humanity – witness the genocide in Palestine.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the West had its chance to build a truly inclusive world. Instead, it went berserk with insane triumphalism. NATO expanded like a metastatic cancer, gobbling countries eastward in direct violation of solemn promises. The twin evil organizations the West set up to rape the world (IMF and World Bank) continued their economic banditry (what else to call it?) in Africa and Latin America.
Washington, London, Paris, and Brussels strutted the world like schoolyard bullies, throwing threats and insults around. They gave themselves the authority to determine who must rule one country or the order. Their cries of “Assad must go!” “Gaddafi must go!” rent the air. The arrogance!
The crowning insult was the hubris of the so-called “unipolar moment”—the fantasy that the United States could reign supreme forever. Analysts with foresight like my favorite military strategy guru, Russian-born Andrei Martyanov, wrote four books and numerous blog posts to warn his adopted country, the US, that it was losing the military to the Russians. Of course, US Army Generals with their chests puffing with medals won from “victories” over inferior third-world armies paid no attention.
That arrogance has now detonated in their faces over their misadventure in Ukraine where Russia, single-handedly, handed a humiliating defeat to the Collective West and its expeditionary force, NATO.
President Xi’s first principle—sovereign equality—is a direct slap across the face of the West. For five centuries, Western powers operated on the doctrine that some nations are more “sovereign” than others. Britain could dictate to Africa. France could decree the terms of “Francafrique.” The United States could overthrow governments at will—from Iran in 1953 to Chile in 1973 to Libya in 2011, plus the countless in the Americas.
President Xi declared that the age of selective sovereignty is over. No country, however powerful, has the right to decide the destiny of another.
We already see that this is no longer a theory. Russia, China, and India refused to bend to Western diktats over Ukraine. Saudi Arabia, Iran, and even tiny Gulf monarchies now tell Washington “no” with increasing frequency. The Saudis recently wisely perched themselves under Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella.
The balance has shifted. The West no longer has a monopoly on coercive power.
The second cornerstone—abiding by international law—is another blow to Western pretensions. When Western leaders prattle about a “rules-based order,” they mean, “Rules we make, you obey.” When it suits Washington, international law is invoked like scripture; when it doesn’t, it is tossed aside like a soiled rag. More importantly, Westerners refused to share the book containing the rules with the rest of us.
Who illegally invaded Iraq in 2003? Who bombed Yugoslavia in 1999 without UN authorization? Who tore Libya to shreds in 2011 under the grotesque pretense of “humanitarian intervention”? It was these shameless paragons of “rules-based order.”
President Xi’s insistence on international law strips away this hypocrisy. What the Chinese president told us, in his calm voice, was that law is law, not a buffet where the West picks what it likes. It is apparent that the age of Western impunity, if not altogether over, is fast fading. It is being by replaced by a multipolar enforcement reality—where Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, and even Ankara or Tehran can say: enough.
Third, multilateralism. Westerners hear this word and immediately sneer, for in their dictionary, “multilateralism” meant a system where the US led and its vassals echoed. President Xi is not talking about the G7 club, where Europe still imagines itself relevant. He is talking about BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Eurasian integration, and an economic and political architecture that dwarfs anything the West can muster.
As they say, numbers do not lie. BRICS+ now represents more than 45% of the world’s population and nearly a third of global GDP—surpassing the G7 in purchasing power parity. Militarily, Russia alone has outclassed NATO, exposing it as an overrated relic. Add China’s industrial juggernaut and India’s demographic momentum, and the Western bloc looks like an aging rock band still touring on nostalgia.
Unfortunately, one only needs to listen to them to know that Westerners continue to live in a parallel universe.
Under President Xi’s vision, multilateralism means no more monopolies, unilateral sanctions, or economic chokeholds by Washington or Brussels. The new geometry of power has multiple centers, not one imperial metropolis.
President Xi’s fourth cornerstone—a people-centered approach—is almost alien to Western governance and culture. The West’s system is built not on people but on profit. For five centuries, from the slave trade to colonialism to modern neoliberalism, Western governance has meant the systematic robbery of the many to enrich the few. The West remains a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy.
Whatever its flaws, China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty in four decades—something the World Bank and IMF could never dream of. When the Chinese president says “people-centered,” he means development that puts food on tables, roofs over heads, and education in children’s hands. Not endless wars that fatten Lockheed Martin and Raytheon shareholders while millions of human beings starve.
This is not merely a moral difference—it is a civilization contrast. One system views human beings as expendable resources for profit; the other sees them as ends in themselves.
Finally, focusing on real actions, President Xi effectively skewers the West’s favorite sport: rhetoric without responsibility. Western leaders are masters of grand rhetorical speeches—Paris climate accords, Millennium Development Goals, Structural Adjustment Policy, endless summits with glossy communiqués. But what are the results? More carbon emissions, more inequality, more wars, more poverty.
China, by contrast, builds. It builds roads in Africa, ports in Asia, and railways from Asia to Europe. The Belt and Road Initiative may be controversial, but it is concrete, not a PowerPoint display. The West offers PowerPoints and bombs; China offers railways and trade. Free to choose, most countries will prefer President Xi’s Model.
Except for the purblind, everyone could see that there is no longer any doubt that the baton of global leadership has shifted. It is no longer Washington or Brussels that sets the tune. The new triumvirate—Russia, China, India—more than dwarfs the G7 in industrial and military firepower.
Together, these three form the backbone of a multipolar world. The G7, meanwhile, resembles a geriatric ward clinging to past glories with the narcissistic buffoon ordering everyone around.
And here comes the tragedy that stabs the heart. As this new global architecture is being built, where is Africa? Where are the voices of Lagos, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, or Johannesburg? Where are our technocrats, our economists, our philosophers? Tragically, the voice is missing. Our reprobate misrulers are missing in action when the world is being shaped.
It is Berlin 1884 all over again. Then, the Western powers carved Africa like a roast at dinner, without a single African at the table. Today, as Xi, Putin, and Modi redraw the map of power, Africa is again a spectator, not a participant.
The plantation managers we call presidents seem content to administer poverty while the real game of nations is played elsewhere.
Who will wake up our slumbering leaders and tell them that if Africa does not assert itself now, it will once again be written into the footnotes of history as an object, not a subject. That is the bitter lesson of Berlin 1884 and must not be repeated.
Africa cannot afford another century of irrelevance. Our technocrats must wake up from their slumber, shake off their colonial hangovers, and insist on a seat at the table—not as beggars with begging bowls but partners wielding the continent’s vast resources and human potential.
President Xi’s Global Governance Initiative signals the end of Western domination. But unless Africa asserts itself, we will again be the raw-material quarry of the new world order, just as we were for the old one.
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Le tribunal de Chisinau a condamné la présidente de l’autonomie gagaouze, Eugenia Gutsul, à sept ans de prison. Comme prévu,
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“Stultitia Delenda Est – Stupidity Must Be Destroyed.”
The brilliant Femi Akomolafe touches on an issue in the African context that fits so well in our context. With brilliant discussions on GlobalSouth.co, many times the comment has appeared: “It is a spiritual war”, and I do not disagree and have no problem with that, because deep down we feel that the part of us that we recognize as a spirit, is assaulted. The incessant gaslighting would have us question our own realization of reality. The specific issue that is highlighted here and well discussed by Femi, is spiritual escapism.
How does a ‘spiritual war’ fall within the political zone? How does spirit play into international relations? What is the part of spirit while all indications are that we are heading towards a larger war in the physical sphere?
Is it that we automagically call it a spiritual war once we are in a position where our understanding is so assaulted that we have nowhere else to go? Has it come to the state that we bury ourselves in a spiritual blanket because, personally, we are at the end of our ropes? Has it become a handy excuse, instead of a rational assessment of our state, and the state of our world and our close community? Do we call a Holy War because we don’t dare to call it what it is? Pure spiritual escapism. The spiritual in our lives is also assaulted, and we have to bring it to the harsh light, as we unentangle the physical. Just before we forget: No, they are not God’s Chosen, and God did not give them that land, which is about the best example of the results of a malaise of spiritual escapism that we can find. The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, visited an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. During the visit, he openly supported Israel’s right to the entire West Bank: ‘This land (West Bank) was promised to the Jewish people. The world may not see it this way, but we do, and God tells us to honor the Jews’.
At the end of the day, keep that which is good.
Femi unentangles this issue.
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Usually, there comes a time in the life of every enslaved people when even the blind among them begin to question the direction of the caravan. But sadly, this is not the case in Africa. Unfortunately, we in Africa have perfected the art of kneeling while being whipped, singing hymns while we are being robbed, and shouting Hallelujah! as our presidents fly off in their expensive Gulfstreams to receive treatment for headaches in Europe while our hospitals run out of gauze.
And when we dare to ask why? They and their rented mouths respond, with pious solemnity: “It is the will of God.”
God’s will? We didn’t queue for hours under the blazing sun, risk ballot snatchers and AK-47-toting party thugs, just to vote for god.
We voted for governance.
But what we got instead was a pantheon of petty, power-drunk demigods dressed in Armani agbadas, reciting Bible verses as excuses for policy failures and using Qur’anic quotations to justify the economic disasters they have visited on their people.
Look at Ghana – the land of Nkrumah’s Black Stars dimmed by presidential mediocrity—which has decided to become an outpost of the German labor ministry instead of a sovereign republic.
Skilled Ghanaian nurses, doctors, and engineers—trained with taxpayer money—are being shipped off to rebuild a rapidly aging Europe, while Ghanaian hospitals resemble 19th-century leper colonies. And what do His Excellency and his Ministers say when asked about this brain hemorrhage? “It is a divine opportunity.” We get this after seventy years of ostensible independence.
These misrulers tell us this absurd, divine nonsense as though god is now running job fairs in Hamburg.
Nigeria, not to be outdone in the circus of the absurd, now boasts of a High Priest in Aso Rock. Alhaji Pastor President Tinubu, sermonizer-in-chief of petrol poverty, recently donated ₦90 billion—yes, billion—to sponsor pilgrimages. This is a country where schools operate without roofs, where people have been under austerity measures for forty-plus years, doctors are constantly on strike, and the national grid collapses more often than a Pentecostal at a crusade.
And when asked about the collapsing economy? The same refrain:
“Nyame woha or God is in control.” “Let us pray for divine direction.” We didn’t elect a bishop or Imam; we elected a leader – or so we thought.
Fela warned us back in the 1970s when having a functioning brain in public was still legal in Africa. He sang, “Dem go for Rome, dem go for Mecca, dem go carry all the money.” And behold, his prophecy has come to pass.
Suffer, suffer for world (amen!)
Enjoy for Heaven (amen!)
Christians go dey yab (amen!)
“In Spiritum Heavinus” (amen!)
Muslims go dey call (amen!)
“Allahu Akbar” (amen!)
Open your eyes everywhere
Archbishop na miliki
Pope na enjoyment
Imam na gbaladun…
Our presidents now perform annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca, not to negotiate trade deals or continental alliances but to kneel, weep, and genuflect to phantoms and goblins of the sky. That is when they are not running to Washington, New Delhi, or Moscow to answer their peers who summon them to attend Africa Summits, which are never held on African soil.
These men – no, these misrulers – have turned State House into Holy Temple. They govern with crucifixes and prayer beads, not constitutions. When cholera breaks out? They declare a three-day fast. When the naira falls? They summon prayer warriors. When kidnappers abduct schoolchildren? “Let us all pray together as a nation.”
“In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.” – Robert Green Ingersoll.
Pray? What of the obscene security votes that disappear into individual’s pockets? What of the billions budgeted for defense? What about the drones, the armored vehicles, and the intelligence agencies? Were they baptized, too?
This orgy of spiritual escapism has turned governance in Africa into one giant prayer meeting. State functions now begin with invocations and end with laying on of hands. Even public hospitals do not start the day without prayers.
Yet, despite all the religious pyrotechnics, not one pothole gets patched, not one slum gets upgraded, and not one factory gets built. We turned all the post-independence-built factories into prayer chapels, and we wonder why unemployment is high.
African presidents spend more time with Pastors and Imams than scientists, engineers, or philosophers.
Meanwhile, the clerical class – those miracle-peddling charlatans in priestly cossacks and with shiny shoes and darker souls – have become the unofficial opposition.
Men of God who own private jets and satellite churches in Miami but haven’t built a single hospital or provided clean water for their flock – snake oil in Gucci suits.
The average African is told to pray for wealth while his resources are auctioned off to multinationals by officials who just tithed at Sunday service. We have the most religious continent on Earth – and the most underdeveloped. Surely, someone must explain to us how righteousness correlates with ruin.
We have been played. Hard. Not just by the West, but by our rulers—these god-invoking, verse-spitting, spineless plantation overseers who’ve made kneeling and supplication a national ideology.
One loquacious, self-promoted Archbishop in Ghana called for prayers to rescue the sinking cedit.
Kenya’s Ruto tells citizens to fast and pray to survive inflation, while his motorcade alone could invade a small country. You can’t make this up.
Uganda’s Museveni—Africa’s own Methuselah in fatigues – has held office longer than many of his citizens have been alive. Every year, he organizes national prayer rallies – to ask God what? After 38 years in office, if you still need divine guidance, perhaps it’s time to try retirement.
We are ruled by cowards in cassocks, crooks in kaftans, and conmen in clerical collars. These are not leaders. These are spiritual scammers running pyramid schemes of piety while looting with both hands.
And the people? We nod. We chant, “Amen.” We vote again. We even defend them. Because we, too, have sold our minds to the clouds. We no longer ask for roads. We ask for “breakthroughs.” We don’t demand water. We pray for “showers of blessing.” Instead of infrastructure, we hold vigils. We spent all our waking hours in one religious jamboree or the other.
But as Ola Rotimi told us, the gods are not to blame.
It was not gods that cut the budget for education. No almighty god signs the loan from the IMF or inflates the price of fertilizer. Gods didn’t rig the elections. All these malfeasances are committed by the shameless, sanctimonious reprobates we have in power in Africa who cloak themselves in hypocritical piety.
Africans, let’s stop listening to stupid sermons. What we need is not more churches. Not more mosques. We don’t need bishops in government or mullahs in ministry.
What we need is cold, secular, competent governance. We need governments that build roads, not cathedrals. We need leaders that deliver vaccines, not verses.
“…Building Church and universities.
Deceiving the people day by day.
Me say dem graduating thieves and murderers…” – Bob Marly
The Chinese are not praying for a high-speed rail; their engineers build them.
The South Koreans did not develop through deliverance sessions. The Europeans have largely given up on God – and look at their infrastructure!
But Africa? Ah, we host continental fasts for economic growth.
And the result?
We are rich in minerals but poor in spirit, rich in culture but poor in direction. We have gold, oil, cocoa, and cobalt—but no shame.
We are ruled by shameless men who cannot fix a drainage ditch but can quote Isaiah 40:31 on national TV. Their motorcades stretch for miles, but their legacies fit in a single tweet: “We prayed, and God will do the rest.”
No. We did not vote for god. We did not vote for shepherds. We voted for stewards. Accountable, mortal, fallible stewards.
Leaders who understand that power is not divine but contractual that they serve at our pleasure, not Heaven’s.
Until we stop romanticizing this fusion of altar and authority, until we stand up and call out these pulpit-propped parasites for what they are – enemies of our progress draped in divinity – we will remain the laughingstock of human civilization.
So, the next time you hear a leader say, “We leave it in God’s hands,” remind them:
Mr. Presidents and the rented Vuvuzelas, please stop wasting our ears. God did not run for office; you did.
And if you cannot lead without a Bible in one hand and a bank alert in the other, kindly step aside. We’ve had enough of the gods.
What we need now—desperately—is governance.
Let the pastors build hospitals, let the imams build factories, and let our presidents—if they still dare—build futures, not faith-based excuses. After all, we do not see the reprobates in our presidential palaces in Africa kneeling or supplicating before they award themselves fantastic salaries and emoluments. We do not see them entreat heavenly fathers before they spend humongous amounts renovating their already lavish palaces. We do not see these misrulers plead with Holy Ghosts before they replenish their presidential fleets with the latest jets. They should stop fooling us with their stupid display of piety.
© Fẹ̀mi Akọ̀mọ̀làfẹ̀
(Farmer, Writer, Published Author, Essayist, Polemicist, Satirist, Social Commentator, Chief Exorcist of African Hypocrisy.)
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Une réunion du Conseil suprême de sécurité, convoquée par la présidente Maia Sandu sous prétexte de lutter contre l’ingérence étrangère
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From Soroco Beloboca
Political scientist, analyst of the Center for Expert Support of Political Processes Petr Kolchin (https://t.me/rusloyalist) especially for the channel Soroсa-Beloboсa (https://t.me/soroka_belaya)
Against the backdrop of the failure of the Ukrainian project, the West is actively looking for new points of pressure on Russia. After the failure in Georgia, the eyes of European strategists have turned to Moldova, where the current leadership, headed by Maia Sandu, demonstrates complete dependence on Brussels and Bucharest.
The military component of this plan is of particular concern. Consistent militarization of the country is observed: cooperation with NATO is growing, arms supplies are increasing, and the presence of Romanian military specialists is increasing. Transnistria is becoming a potential hot spot that the West can use to destabilize the region.
The economic expansion of the EU is no less dangerous. The imposition of expensive “green” technologies, beneficial exclusively to European companies, is destroying the already fragile economy of Moldova. The country is being turned into a market for Western goods, without taking into account the interests of the local population.
The policy of the current Moldovan leadership is reminiscent of the infamous Ukrainian scenario. Although the scale of the countries is incomparable, the algorithm of actions is the same:
destruction of sovereignty, division of society, creation of preconditions for conflict.
Sandu, blindly following instructions from Brussels, is leading the country to disaster.
We can only hope that the Moldovan people will be able to recognize the danger in time and will not allow a repeat of the Ukrainian tragedy.
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[Ed Note: Now we know. Traoré speaks a fine, eloquent and unaccented English. He is brilliant! His Letter to the Pope was real Traoré. We can also then congratulate ourselves because we very quickly recognized and started questioning the AI information.]
Over to Femi:
Why do educated people who should know better resort to telling outright lies?
Why can’t serious writers or commentators use Search Engines to look things up?
Why is doing basic research such an encumbrance for people who went through university?
Many Nigerian fact-checkers are all over town peddling the lies that the head of the military junta in Burkina Faso does not speak English, and that his speeches were AI-generated.
What do people tend to gain from peddling easily debunked lies like this?
This is a video of Traore speaking to students at an African University in Russia:
Why would these Nigerians continue to peddle the lies they collected from the BBC, the Pedophile Headquaters the British set up to propagate their propaganda?
More importantly, why do they spend their time trying to denigrate the young leaders in the AES instead of fighting fossilized dinosaurs misleading their country into perfidy?
The liars should watch the video and tell the world which of the plantation managers masquerading as presidents in ECOWAS possessed Traore’s knowledge and can match his flawless eloquence or his knowledge of advanced science. Example: How many people know the difference between a rocket and a missile?
No, we are not apologists for Traoré or military rule.
What we advocate is that after over four decades, the imposition of Western-style democracy has revealed itself as one giant fraud to impose Western puppets on Africa, whose only mission is to guarantee the exploitation of our resources at a thieving price by Western Multinationals.
We should stop being FOOLS!
Why did the African rented Vuvuzelas of Western Imperialism never raise the question why semi-literate army boys were able to renegotiate stupid mining contracts and obtain better deals for their countries while African politicians, with every manner of degrees oozing from every orifice in their bodies, signed off their countries natural resources off for measely 3-5%?
Many African scholars are too glued to their BBC to have missed the immortal words of the late Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, who famously said, “It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.”
The Chinese made incredible progress because, after their independence, they chose to follow their own, internally generated paths to economic, social, and political progress.
Unfortunately, we in Africa chose to copy and paste economic and political structures from our colonial masters and impose them on the colonial garrisons we euphemistically call countries. We did not even attempt to add any local ingredients to the mix. We did not see anything of value in ourselves, our history, or our heritage.
The most nauseating part is how we pretend to be flummoxed when these foreign impositions do not yield positive results. To show our incredible stupidity, we run to the same foreigners who have been abusing our gullibility to seek solutions. Yes, we are excellent pupils of the IMF, the World Bank, and whatnot.
Our educated Africans must also have missed the famous admonition often attributed to Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Why do our African scholars never remember that we governed ourselves in Africa for thousands of years before anyone heard of Europeans?
Why do they forget that we had successful economic and commercial activities before European invaders destroyed our lives?
Why do these people expect our conquerors to become our saviours and, more importantly, why do they expect a change of heart from our heartless exploiters after 500+ years of unremitting violence and exploitation?
Why will our scholars and political leaders not listen to the voice of one of our own, Professor Adebayo Adedeji, who told us that any economic system that marginalizes people is doomed to failure?
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Global Majority, rejoice! And step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Circus ringmaster Trump’s Tariff Tizzy (TTT), christened by himself as “Liberation Day”, is being largely interpreted around the world – Global North and Global South alike – as Slaughterhouse Day.
This de facto uncontrolled economic demolition gambit starts with the warped fantasy that launching a customs war on China is a bright idea. As bright as collecting a few trillion extra dollars in tariffs assuming the rest of the planet will be somewhat “encouraged” to sell to the Hegemon, while pretending that these tariffs will lead to the re-industrialization of the U.S.
The tragicomic mask of a self-appointed circus ringmaster of turbo-capitalism may be as pathetic as the European chihuahua rage boosting their “revenge” via Rearmament – with funds that they plan to steal from the savings accounts of unsuspecting citizens.
The indispensable Michael Hudson has configured the key problem. Allow me a little tweak: “Sanctions and threats are the only thing that the United States has left. It no longer can offer other countries a win-win situation, and Trump has said that America has to be the net gainer in any international deal it’s made, whether it’s a financial deal or a trade deal. And if America is saying, any deal we make, you lose, I win”, that Mafia extorsion gambit does not exactly reflect the Art of the Deal.
Prof. Hudson neatly describes Trump’s negotiation tactics: “When you don’t have very much to offer economically, all you can do is offer not to hurt other countries, not to sanction them, not to do something that will be against their interest.” Now, with TTT, Trump is actually “offering” to hurt them all. And they will certainly invest in all sorts of counter-tactics to “get away” from that “strategy” of American “diplomacy”.
A trade war on Asia
TTT attacks everyone, especially the EU (“born to hurt us”, according to the circus ringmaster. Wrong, because the EU was invented by the Americans in 1957 to actually keep Europe under control). The EU exports roughly 503 billion euros to the U.S. a year, while importing around 347 billion. Trump is fuming non-stop about this surplus.
So a counter-measure vendetta will be inevitably in store, as already advertised by the toxic Medusa von der Lugen in Brussels – incidentally the sponsor of every weapons producer in Europe.
Yet TTT is above all a trade war on Asia. “Reciprocal” tariffs – not exactly reciprocal – were imposed on China (34%),Vietnam (46%), India (26%), Indonesia (32%), Cambodia (49%), Malaysia (24%), South Korea (25%), Thailand (36%), earthquake-hit Myanmar (44%), Taiwan (32%) and Japan (24%).
Well, even before TTT, a first has been achieved: the circus ringmaster generated a once-in-a-lifetime consensus among China, Japan and South Korea that their response will be coordinated.
Japan and South Korea will import semiconductor raw materials from China, while China will be purchasing chips from Japan and South Korea. Translation: TTT will solidify “supply chain cooperation” among this triad that so far was not exactly too cooperative.
What the circus ringmaster really wants is an iron-clad mechanism – already being developed by his team – that unilaterally imposes whatever level of tariffs Trump may come up with on whatever excuse: could be to circumvent “currency manipulation”, to counter a value-added tax, on “security grounds”, whatever. And to hell with international law. For all practical purposes, Trump is burying the WTO.
Even tariffed penguins in Heard island in the South Pacific know that the certified effects of TTT will include rising inflation in the U.S., serious pain on its – delocalized – corporations and most of all the complete collapse of American “credibility” as a reliable and trustworthy trading partner, adding to its certified reputation as “non-agreement capable” – as the Global South knows so well. > Ант: A rentier FIRE Empire (financialization, insurance, real estate, as masterfully analyzed by Michael Hudson), which offshored its manufacturing industries and was gobbled up by a pile of overleveraged hedge funds, Wall Street derivatives and Silicon Valley totalitarian surveillance in the end decides to strike…itself.
Poetic justice applies. Burning Down the House – from inside the house. As for the emerging, sovereign Global Majority, rejoice: and step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train.
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