Now is no time for Peace

Here in the Stroock Northern Strategic Direction the less said about das boot, the better. Meanwhile, our KGB handler asked if we would be submitting a piece today. It's nice to be wanted. [You have an estrogen problem-Ed]. Back home in New Jersey, so called Delta Variant cases rise and the infection rate is back above 1. 

We are very good at what we do, the Brits agree:

Bloody good.

Marco Rubio wants Biden to get tough on Cuba. The mayor of Miami wants air strikes. This blog agrees. As America's Afghan misadventure comes to a humiliating end (we're evacuating people that worked for us), now is the perfect time to begin another long war. This blog calls for the liberation of Cuba.

We should reinforce Guantanamo Bay with the 1st Cavalry Division. As they attack west, the 2nd Marine Division will land at Mariel. To make things really cool, we'll insert the 101st Air Assault Division at Jose Marti Airport outside of Havana. The State Department can form a government in waiting of Cuban exiles in Miami. We call it Operation Cuba Libra!

Okay seriously, the closer the problem the bigger it is. This blog doesn't really know what to do. We've seen the protest movements begin and then fade. The Kurds and Shia in Iraq, Hong Kong, Venezuela. Many millions would like to overthrow the ruling regime and many millions are vested in that regime and being told, 'Look what happened to the communists in East Germany.' It took the ANC 30 years to oust the South African National Party.

And how 'bout those riots in South Africa? Impressive. A decade ago we spent a lot of time reading about post-colonial Africa, South Africa and the Bush War. We concluded that the breakdown of government and society in South Africa was inevitable. We don't think this round of riots is the end. It's just another signpost on the way to the end, though. It's almost as if ending Apartheid didn't magically bring everyone peace, freedom and prosperity. Huh. 

South Africa: Crap Hole

Yahoo News tells us about the plight of South Africa's coloured community in the ANC's post-racial utopia:

The sense of injustice has persisted to the point that several community members lament the fall of apartheid under which "Coloured" people had neither the freedom to move around nor vote.

"The blacks have all the opportunities," complained pastor's wife Janice Jacobs, 49.

"We were much more comfortable during the apartheid. They would provide us a school pack with all the stationery. We had nurses in the schools. There was order and discipline. If you set a place alight, you would end up in jail.

"The apartheid government used to look after education, health, housing. (This) government does not look after us. I prefer apartheid."

You read that right. These people miss Apartheid.

Back in our professorial days we'd get students from some far flung corner of the old British Empire like Ceylon or Ghana. They missed the British.

So these people miss PW Botha.

Well obviously.

The ANC is about blacks loyal to the ANC and exists primarily to enrich the leadership of the ANC.

This makes Thebo Mbeki or Jacob Zuma indistinguishable from the long succession of kleptocrats and psychotics that have made the continent a byword for misery and despair. 

As we once heard a Boer farmer say, 'Look what they have done with the rest of Africa.' 

Friday Flag

In the news. A flag with three flags in it. Also, the least worst country in sub-Saharan Africa.

Africa in the News!

In South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa is gearing up to confiscate white farms.

Meanwhile Zimbabwe, which suffered the consequences of Robert Mugabe's seizure of white farms, just had its first election without Robert Mugabe.

We know a few South Africans, and have written about that nation's once fine army and it's brilliant campaign against the Angolans and Cubans in the 1980's.* 

They've got the best accent in the English speaking world.**

We've also read extensively on post colonial Africa and taught about it. Recall our 'Choose your Psychopath' African leader assignment.

What's happening in South Africa was inevitable.

*This is a time for Lethal Weapon II quotes if there ever was one.
**Worst is French-Canadian.

Look what they have done with the rest of Africa...

...we heard a Boer farmer say in the 1980s.

Excellent point.

South Africa, under the new President whose name we don't care to learn how to spell, just passed a law allowing for the seizure of white land (about 72% of the land ownership in the country) without compensation.

That took 20 years. Still it was inevitable. This is what Mugabe did in Zimbabwe, as it happens 20 years after he took power. Via Steve Sailer, a man who is much smarter than we, here's the roundup:

SOUTH Africa’s parliament has voted in favour of a motion that will begin the process of amending the country’s Constitution to allow for the confiscation of white-owned land without compensation.

The motion was brought by Julius Malema, leader of the radical Marxist opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters, and passed overwhelmingly by 241 votes to 83 against. The only parties who did not support the motion were the Democratic Alliance, Freedom Front Plus, Cope and the African Christian Democratic Party.

It was amended but supported by the ruling African National Congress and new president Cyril Ramaphosa, who made land expropriation a key pillar of his policy platform after taking over from ousted PM Jacob Zuma earlier this month.

And so South Africa goes the way of Congo, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Tanzania, Detroit....They will never learn. Afro-Nationalist tribalism can never trump laws of economics.