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Recently the United States of America extended its heinous and brutal sanctions regime for another painful year. The sanctions which were initially enacted as the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act have metamorphosed into different Acts all aimed at inflicting untold suffering on the gallant people of Zimbabwe.
It’s shocking and mind-boggling how a super power, the “mighty” America, considers Zimbabwe, a country of only approximately 13 million people, a foreign policy threat.
The crime which the country supposedly committed, repossession of her God-given natural resource and distributing it to its rightful owners, the black indigenous people.
The resource nationalism concept which Zimbabwe under the astute leadership of President Mugabe has pursued and is perfecting has become a model for t he region and the whole continent.
Even the African Union, which is also under the wise leadership of President Robert Mugabe, has also adopted Agenda 2063 whose thrust is to empower Africans to be masters of their own destiny.
The essence of resource nationalism is the unmitigated ownership of their resources.
One might ask the rationale behind the Americans’ punitive sanctions regime on a small nation such as Zimbabwe, the British have the same blood as the Americans; they are their kith and kin.
The British are bitter since they felt aggrieved by the land reclamation exercise.
Instead of the Americans taking a mediatory stance/conciliatory role, they took sides, rendering valid the popular adage that indeed blood is thicker than water.
In any way, anyone versed with history will appreciate that the Americans had a hand in the negotiations at the Lancaster House Conference which resulted in the landmark elections in 1980, which saw the Patriotic Front romping to a landslide victory, much to the chagrin of the British and Americans who had dreamt of one of their puppets, Abel Muzorewa or Ndabaningi Sithole, being victorious
The strategic location of Zimbabwe in the geo-political sphere and its centrality in the economic permutations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and in Africa provides headaches for the British empire and its American acolytes.
As much as they have unleashed the diabolic blanket economic sanctions, snubbing Zimbabwe will be at their own peril politically and economically.
These detractors realise the abundance of mineral resources which the country is endowed with, it is host to a diverse portfolio of mineral resources such as diamonds, platinum, gold and chrome.
Zimbabwe is also Africa’s most literated nation; its pool of expert labour is much sought after globally.
With such a scenario, the British and the Americans are in a dilemma which will haunt them forever.
With a shrewd leadership which superintends the affairs of Zimbabwe led by the veteran statesman and political genius in the form of President Mugabe, the British and their allies will regret the day they mooted the sanctions evil.
Zimbabweans are now aware of the evil association between the now irrelevant British founded and funded opposition political outfit, the Movement for Democratic Change, led by the chubby and mindless womaniser, Morgan Tsvangirai, and the British.
Tsvangirai is an amateur and dull political tool of the British and the Americans.
As characteristic of stooges elsewhere, he swallows hook, line and sinker any garbage as long it is British and American.
There is not much difference that separates the philanders, Tsvangirai and the void and egoistic Tendai Biti who now fronts another West political creation which masquerades again as a movement anchored on democratic change.
If it is not idiocy, then it should be utter foolishness.
The voting population in Zimbabwe is not that gullible, they can decipher through the heap of lies which these pseudo-democrats preach.
They shall be humiliated for the umpteenth time in the 2018 harmonised plebiscite.
Online Reporter