Did anyone get a good readout on Vice President Kamala Harris’ African tour?
Did anyone even see it on television, if even for nano-seconds?
Arguably, with our economy, sovereignty, and Constitution under direct fire domestically, we can’t even digest the latest Russian threats of nuclear weapons, let alone what's going on, some approximately 4,085 miles to our east.
Team Biden pushes more on Americans than we can handle every day.
It has been said that God never gives you any more than you can handle, but the Biden administration even pushes this envelope — exponentially and relentlessly.
How much more can Americans take?
The Biden White House uses sheer numbers to hide what's really going on.
Americans fearfully wonder if we will have jobs, be audited by the IRS, get a break from inflation, and if our our communities will be saved from falling into an interminable cycle of crime, violence, and drugs.
How can we be expected to pick apart the latest intelligence dump, one indicative of massive corruption in Ukraine and the West’s efforts to repulse the Russian invasion?
All of this adds up to information overload without context.
We cant — and shouldn't — take much more.
If you have quite enough personally to deal with, like putting food on the table, protecting your kids from alternative lifestyle agendas in schools, and watching over your shoulder for Big Brother’s next surveillance play, you’re not alone.
Where is this regime’s train taking us?
It seems as though we're headed for derailment any moment.
Please consider what the diplomacy lords are up to!
Africa: should we care? Since the beginning of the year the African continent has seen a steady stream of top U.S. and European officials visit.
America’s CIA director, secretary of the treasury, secretary of state and just a few weeks ago, Vice President Harris, have made efforts to engage African leaders, espousing the benefits of western values and partnerships.
Over many decades, a sort of formula has become institutionalized when it comes to Africa. The West provides money with strings attached and African leaders are expected to play ball.
After all, the existing world order has a few rules.
Along that path, a few presidents would push back.
Occasionally an unforeseen coup or deleterious trade outcome might appear soon after.
We are the West. We mean it. Play ball.
The current version of the collective West’s "do-what-we-say-and-you-will-get-support" diplomacy is hell bent on strongarming the continent with issues and values that they almost unanimously reject.
African countries have bigger fish to fry in their developmental goals than pursuing climate change nonsense, transgenderism, and adoption of western democracy institutions.
Everyday is a fight for survival there.
Across the continent, western leaders, including ours, have been publicly slammed at press conferences that were supposed to be outpourings of mutual love and respect.
When Vice President Harris brought an announced $100 million injection into Western African countries to combat the "extremist threat," many found it laughable.
Really?
$100 million you say.
Shared by five countries.
Amazing.
Didn’t you commit $115 billion to one country in just a year?
A cynic might define this as an extension of the old colonial days.
Shouldn’t they have anticipated resentment?
In the last few months, our leaders and those daring officials from the EU have found out that bitterness not only exists, but that it’s also bubbling over.
French President Emmanuel Macron endured, perhaps, the most prolific scolding at a joint presser with Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi:
"Look at us differently by respecting us, by considering us as true partners and not always with a paternalistic look with the idea of always knowing what is necessary for us . . .," Tshisekedi said, wagging his finger at Macron.
High profile American lectures to Africans fared no better. The speaker of parliament in Ghana, railed against VP Harris’ push for a focus on LGBTQ+ issues in that country.
No one likes a bully apparently.
In case no one's noticed, there's a much bigger global realpolitik game going on here.
Our leadership had better be engaging Africa and elsewhere internationally, but not with the current policy-wonk garbage they're selling.
This is about de-throning the dollar, and We the People are being kept in the dark — intentionally.
China, fresh off its diplomatic victories in Russia and the Mideast, is upping its efforts in Africa and South America.
Their counteroffer to the continent is massive amounts of infrastructure investment where the strings attached are dibs on natural resources and profitable loans.
This is called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Africa has legitimate concerns about the "pay-day" loan effects of allowing too much financial leverage, but they love the "no-cultural-or-human-rights-judgment" strings attached.
In short, the Africans and South Americans are weary of lectures for pennies on the dollar and constant threats of sanctions:
- The dollar
- That’s what this is all about
- Be concerned
China is pulling out all the stops to go for what it believes is "checkmate" on the U.S. and the West.
What you are witnessing in Africa and globally is a conversion of resentment into a worldwide rebellion against the U.S. dollar and the threat the dollar poses to nations who don’t play ball.
Our brand of diplomacy, as of late, is toxic and tired.
This can only mean it provides fertile ground for the gold rich BRICS+ (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries, led by China, to replace the U.S. as the global leader; one in which a multi-national reserve currency reigns.
Our dollar? Based on faith and trust?
Crash.
Amidst the circus of horrors D.C. treats us to every day, we need to spare a large part of our attention to look beyond what they allow you to see.
It's no longer an option. It's a must.
Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt (retired) is a co-founder of Restore Liberty, a former deputy representative to NATO, a lifetime member on the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Newsmax contributor. The views presented are those of the author and do not represent the views of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, or its components. Read Gen. Holt's reports — More Here.
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