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Robert McDougal
The United States of America is particularly worried about maintaining its dominance in the world that it uses things like democracy, good governance and accountability to keep other nations down.
It also uses sanctions and regime change to throttle hated nations.
The US does not want any other country in the world to prosper beyond itself.
Today the US is in many wars in the world not to promote democracy or protect human rights. That is a lie to the world. It is in these wars to simply protect its hegemony and push the agenda of remaining the top nation on the world. Period.
It is therefore, fact not fiction, that the US itself has become a serious threat to other nations, especially the developing world where it has sponsored opposition political parties to effect regime change and bring into power their puppets, who will allow the US access to untapped natural resources.
Joe Biden is in that mood swing these days.
Many people in the world now know that the US is a real threat to the sovereignty of developing countries in Africa and not the opposite.
It is very clear that the dominance of US and its Western allies in global politics is dwindling and they are trying to capture African countries through regime change and milk the continent dry of resources.
The continued rising of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), has emerged as a threat to their hegemony and they abuse sanctions against countries they perceive to be trying to be independent or aligning with Eastern Europe.
Besides sanctions the US and its allies manipulate aid from international money-landing institutions and make sure they create shortages, hunger and starvation to trigger chaos and uprisings.
Then there is regime change. Then they have access to the natural resources.
The most dangerous thing that the US and its allies have done is to undermine security and stability of other nations in different parts of the world, including in Africa.
The aim is to promote, regime change, chaos, rise of terrorism and humanitarian crisis. Once that crisis happens the US and its allies take advantage, come in and loot.
Then US has a very mad way of doing things; that of prosecuting other countries for crimes just perceived not committed.
They don’t care that sovereign states have a right to decide their destiny, all they care for are their own interests, even when those interests trample of the rights of other nations.
The US also ignore and flouts, mostly deliberately international law and punish other countries, even without going through the United Nations system.
Many nations have been slapped with unilateral sanctions outside the scope of the UN system. That is illegal but the US does not care a hoot.
Any country, from Zimbabwe to Iran and Cuba etc that has tried to do its things independently have been punished by the US. This has become common, US bully behaviour.
Then the other thing that has worsened the US attitude its ability to railroad Western Europe into joining any madness the US start. Many countries have been attacked by the combination of US and its allies in Europe over their own independent decision.
This is the basis of the US and NATO’s expansionist policies, which have landed Ukraine in trouble. US and NATO, through a special military outfit called Africom are seeking ways of expanding their military presence and hegemony in Africa.
Africa needs to increase and intensify political, military and economic co-operation with countries like China, Russia and Brazil to avoid being abused by the USA.
The idea is to capture and control African countries, abuse them by making them do things the way US and its allies want and not the way Africans themselves want.
This is the reason why we need balance of power in world politics and Russia and China come into play. It is very important to have an alternative source of world power to checkmate the US and its allies. If they go unchecked they will behave like mad dogs and maul everyone at will.
l Robert McDougal is a political scientist, based in Cuba. DayAfrica.org
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