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Ricky Grenell and the Satchel of Doom

19 Tuesday May 2020

Posted by Harry Booyens in Media, The US & South Africa

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Donald Trump, Media, Obama, Russia, South Africa

—This is a picture known to anyone who grew up in the ’60’s within Western Civilisation. It shows the four Beatles crossing the road in front of the Abbey Road recording studios in a “four man walk”. The image was used as the cover picture for the album “Abbey Road”, released September of 1969. It foreshadowed momentous things. In that particular case it presaged the demise of the group.

Now consider the “four man walk” image below and please indulge my Harry Potter-style title of this post…. I simply could not help it [Click on the image for the video]. Those men are walking with intent.

It was taken as a video on 7 May 2020 at a pedestrian crossing in front of the John F. Kennedy building of the US Justice Department in Washington, DC. I know the spot, because I was there last year.

This “four man walk” also presages a dramatic event. It shows Acting Director of National Intelligence for the Trump Administration, Richard Grenell (“Ricky” in the light blue shirt), personally taking a satchel (in his right hand, partly obscured) to Professor Dumbledore.

( )…What’s that? Oh..err… …oops….sorry…. correction… “to Attorney General Bill Barr” (below). My bad. Apologies to all!

Now, back to Ricky Grenell and the Satchel of Doom:

That satchel in Grenell’s right hand will go down in history as The Satchel of Doom for the Conspirators to the Coup to topple the duly elected President of the United States of America. When this whole story is finally revealed, decent Americans will ask whether they are living in South Africa or in the United States. In fact, the picture that is emerging is more like the Central African Republic.

Unmasking a three-star General

Within a handful of days of the satchel delivery, the names were released of the parties who had demanded in 2016, during election season, to know the name of the American on a “wire-tapped” phone call to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. One of them, or someone associated with one of them, released the name of the person to the Washington Post. That is a punishable crime that may land someone in jail for up to ten years.

The Mainstream Media will have the world believe that it should panic about the coronavirus, which is no longer news by any stretch of the imagination. They would have you believe the Satchel of Doom is a distraction. They will have you believe that there never was an effort to take down the US President. They will have you believe that there is nothing interesting about various Obama Administration individuals being listed among the many individuals demanding the unmasking of the relevant American’s name, including Joe Biden, the current Democratic Party presidential candidate.

That American on the phone call was none other than General Michael Flynn (below), then President Elect Trump’s National Security Advisor-to-be. He had previously been fired by Obama from his job as Defense Intelligence Agency director, and he knew “where all the ‘Obama bodies’ were buried”. He was the single most dangerous man to the conspirators and they had to find a way to “take him out”. So they put the spying system of the State onto him, failed to find anything incriminating, and then proceeded to hound him into a corner by abusing the powers of the FBI before Trump could properly assume office.

The thing to realise here, is that  US presidents nominate secretaries for all regular offices in the Cabinet, and those then have to be ratified by the Senate. The National Security Adviser, however, is a president-only appointee. The president does NOT have to have that person confirmed by the Senate. So, General Flynn was good to go, he could hit the ground running,…. and the conspirators had to stop that. The point is that, the day Flynn would get into office, he would be able to see what these creatures had done because he would have access to all information of an intelligence nature…. and all the records.

They never thought Trump would win the election, so their sins were on record, because they likely thought Hillary Clinton would appreciate them for their “helpful” skullduggery. But all hell had broken loose when Trump had “unexpectedly” won, and they had to cover their tracks and keep him off-balance. There were two elements to the plan: (1) take down Flynn, who is a registered Democrat; and (2) infiltrate President Elect Trump’s offices to “get dirt” on the president. If that turned out to be not enough, they had the “Steele Dossier” of wholly contrived XXX-rated filth to fall back on, courtesy of Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Slytherin…..err, sorry, the Democratic Party, which has been anything but democratic of late.

Fortunately for the United States and the rest of Civilisation, Hillary lost the election and the “Steele Dossier” has been wholly discredited. And, very importantly, one man with actual integrity went to warn President Elect Trump that he was being “wire-tapped”. That man was Admiral Rogers, head of the NSA, who found out that unauthorised people were digging around in his data system. The very next day Trump moved his team out of the Trump Tower and told the media he “was being wire-tapped”. The Media called him “crazy”. It turns out, he was actually correct.

Of course, Republican Senator John McCain is no longer with us. In life, he had been only too happy to convey the “dirty dossier”. Of course, he had earlier lost the nomination for Republican candidate for the Presidency against Trump.

The boss of the FBI at the time, James Comey, had been only too happy to go to Trump’s office to rub Trump’s face in the XXX-dossier, but mysteriously did not inform him that they “were concerned about” his pick for National Security Adviser to the extent that they were targeting him for removal. Somehow Comey DID think it was important to advise Democratic Party Senator Feinstein that SHE had an infiltrator in her office.

So, the FBI clearly worked FOR the Democratic Party and AGAINST the Republican Party. More particularly, it worked against the President Elect. This was the kind of corrupt behaviour that we are used to hearing about in African Banana Republics, not the leading country of the Free World. How utterly disgraceful. Why is anyone surprised that Trump fired Comey? The problem is, it would appear Rosenstein, who took over from Comey, was part of the scheme. It was he who launched a special investigation into Trump’s election win, exactly in line with the needs of the rogue FBI cabal. Surprise, surprise!

There was nothing wrong to start with

There was nothing wrong with what General Flynn was doing. It was his job as incoming National Security Adviser to make contact with senior diplomats of other countries. He did nothing wrong in the process. In the end, the conspirators are on record under oath, confirming that “there was nothing there”. Nonetheless, they carried on hounding him until they backed him into a corner where he had to confess to something so they would stop threatening his family. And then they testified differently under oath to what they were telling the Media. Where I come from, that is called “lying to the public”. They also lied to Congress. Had they been put under oath in public, this stuff would not have been possible. These people are now proven liars, and they lied with some considerable dedication and focus.

How odd is it that there was not a single whistleblower from the FBI that warned the President, either before or after he took office. One appreciates that a fish rots from the head down, but just how deep down from the top has the FBI been rotted that not a single person stood up and cried foul? In the end, it was the NSA that warned Trump, fer cryin’ out loud! Covered by the Media who desperately wanted to believe the lies, the crooked heap in the FBI coerced General Flynn into pleading guilty to “Lying to a federal agent”. This while Comey himself was considering “wearing a wire” into the White House for a meeting with Trump.

Fast forward to the present. On the same day as that satchel delivery (7 May 2020), the Department of Justice (DOJ) said it would move to drop all charges against General Flynn. The DOJ fully realised the alarming extent to which the FBI had transgressed in forcing such a plea out of Flynn, a three-star general who had loyally served his country for three decades.

There’s a big thing coming, but “nothing to see”

The plans of the conspirators are being revealed, one move at a time, by Attorney-General Bill Barr, and we are all waiting to see what his bloodhound, Special Investigator John Durham (left), will charge the conniving parties with. The Conservative and Constitution-protecting people of the US are angry as all hell at what has been done to President Trump and the people around him, and they want blood. If I did not know them better, I would tell you they want the heads of some people posted on pikes up and down Pennsylvania Avenue.

There is a classic Afrikaans saying that has been turned into an acronym that only South Africans know : HKGK. I’m sure other interested parties can get it decoded if they really want to. I’ll leave that as a fun challenge. That acronym now applies here.

Of course CNN is telling you, “Move along now! Nothing to see here! Nothing to see here! Worry about the virus and don’t ask questions! Be afraid! Be afraid! Be good little mental midgets now and move along!” I personally believe this is because they were a key part of the conspiracy from day one, but cannot yet prove it.

Why do I care?

The United States is the only country with the power to do anything about the mess in South Africa, and President Trump (below) is the only US president in my lifetime with the basic guts to do what it takes. South Africa as an entity is now past the point of recovery in its present form. We need President Trump in his job for another four years in order to apply the required pressure on the ANC government in South Africa. The place is a candidate for “Regime Change”.

I first wrote about this whole saga very early in 2018. I have been waiting for some years now for the guilty to pay. But until Pres. Trump appointed Bill Barr, there was no hope that the FBI would be investigated. Just watch how desperate the Democrats are to get Barr removed from his post. That should tell you something right there. I sincerely hope the fact that the details are being revealed so bitterly slowly, is because they are being timed for greatest negative effect on Slytherin at election time in November. They would deserve that after fooling with the Steele XXX-Dossier and—so it would appear—digging illegally into data at the NSA.

As to the other aspects of what Durham is looking at, please read my other two posts on this general subject:

1. Is the US now South Africa?

2. Born in a Crossfire Hurricane

Meanwhile, I’d like to know whether anything is going to happen to Draco Malfoy….. sorry, Adam Schiff. He has been playing a disgraceful game in the House of Representatives by alternately lying to the House and wilfully withholding evidence.

But this story also has heroes, like Hedwig.. err.. Admiral Rogers, head of the NSA under Obama, who “flew” to Trump to warn him he was being spied on. And then there are Ron and Hermione…. I mean, Joe Di Genova and his wife Victoria Toensing, who dug open so much of this stuff to back up the president. And, yes, there are several more good people who have fought the good fight, such as John Solomon and Sara Carter and Devin Nunes, all of whom played key roles and took serious abuse in this process. And do not forget General Flynn’s excellent new attorney, Sidney Powell, who forced the release of some key information.

But the monsters are many, and Voldemort’s agents—you know who I mean—are now dangerous because they are cornered. They have already once shown that they will stop at nothing. In considering them, Mark Twain comes to mind. He once wrote about Cecil John Rhodes, another evil schemer who destroyed the lives of tens of thousands:

…and when his time comes, I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

— Harry Booyens

Born in a Crossfire Hurricane

18 Thursday Apr 2019

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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Democracy, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Russia, South Africa

— I was born in a crossfire hurricane…

These are the opening words of the lyrics of the iconic 1968 Rolling Stones tune Jumping Jack Flash (Front man Mick Jagger above). Those not familiar with it—and I am sure there must be few in the forgotten corners of the planet—will recognise it by clicking on THIS link. I have personally played it on-stage more times than I care to confess.

I never knew that I was playing the likely future theme song of the investigation into President Trump’s collusion with Russia in cheating Hillary Clinton out of her Ordained Victory… errr… oops…sorry… I meant to say the Report on the Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. I beg forgiveness from all Americans, because anyone forced to watch CNN at an airport over the past well-nigh 30 months would have thought the former was the true title of the investigation.

Enter “James Bond”

Most people seem to think it started with the appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Prosecutor in 2017, but, in fact, this really bad B-movie spy story started in 2016, long before the election and as the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s server conduct came to a close. It started with an FBI investigation named Crossfire Hurricane.

I think the FBI top bunch had in mind something more like the James Bond theme, but, in their urge to exonerate Hillary Clinton and implicate the future president, they seemed to forget that Trump might win. In the end, when they failed, they put into effect Plan B, which was to destroy the presidency of the newly elected Donald Trump. For this they had to have a Special Prosecutor. And the rest is now history.

But, wait, the James Bond theme tune may yet be relevant, because it turns out Hillary’s team paid for a salacious report, composed of complete rubbish, and put together by…. wait for it…. a British ex-spy with Russian contacts. He was Christopher Steele (below).

I guess I’m giving away my age with THIS theme tune. This has yet to be investigated for criminal conduct. It seemed much more important to the US Justice Department and FBI to investigate the properly elected President.

Well, after two years of putting North America through hell, during which time CNN turned themselves into the “Bile & Vomit Channel”, being thoroughly incapable of disguising even the hate in their faces, we have the answer:

THERE WAS NO COLLUSION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA.

But this is where it becomes important to read once more the actual title of the Mueller investigation: Report on the Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. So, it was not supposed to be an investigation into whether Donald Trump is a Russian spy, as CNN would have us believe. But they were not alone. MSNBC also harped on this, and the fired Deputy-Chief of the FBI mouthed off incessantly on the subject. But, by then, he had already discredited himself as a witness, as explained by none other than Mueller.

So, where are we today?

The investigation has run its course, it has expired, and it has delivered nothing of note, except to show up various Democrat politicians as repeat liars. As to CNN, there is little that needs to be said. All intelligent people I know have deserted that channel. President Trump stands vindicated. Mueller could not find evidence sufficient to accuse the president of obstruction of justice, let alone indict him. He has left some breadcrumbs for the Democrats to keep sidetracking themselves with. The whole thing has been a thinly disguised effort to discredit the Trump presidency against the backdrop of his opponent securing resources from Russia for her campaign. Guess where the REAL collusion is. The Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, can certainly attempt to use the report to try to impeach Pres. Trump based on information insufficient to charge him with obstruction, but the Republicans who control Senate will not back that effort. Impeachment is not a legal process; it is a political process. I believe all Republicans are hoping the Democrats will try, because it will distract them and most certainly will cost them the next election. It backfired on the Republicans when they tried it with Clinton. It will backfire on the Democrats.

What do the Stones tell us about this?

So what is the state of the fictitious person who was born in the crossfire hurricane? Well, we can ask lead singer of the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger:

I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead.
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled

How immensely appropriate! Indeed, the collusion investigation is dead. To the extent that this investigation still has any feet, they are certainly bleeding.

Who is Charlie?

Of course, I’m wondering whether ex-FBI chief James Comey styles himself in the role of frontman Mick Jagger, working up the crowd of 1,500,000 people on Copacabana Beach in the opening link. Comey has tried to work up 150 million people. But the most important question is, who is in the role of Charlie Watts, the drummer. He is the one providing the background beat of the group; the one who sets the timing – the man WHO CONTROLLED this entire edifice of lies and collusion deception. Attorney-General  William Barr now has to find “Charlie”.

Only crumbs remain

The Democratic Party people appear to be on their hands and knees scurrying around like cockroaches when the lights go on, looking for breadcrumbs from the report that will allow them to delude themselves further. Indeed the lyrics of the song say:

I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread.

What they really should worry about, is the first line of the last verse:

I was crowned with a spike right through my head.

Do I need to remind the reader that it was not I who decided to launch an investigation into a US presidential candidate using already discredited Russian information and call it Crossfire Hurricane.  I just comment on this stuff because (1) I know the song ; (2) I know that Communist places love putting the word “Democratic” in their name to pretend to be something they are not; and (3) President Trump is the first international leader that has realised that something is wrong in South Africa. So, he gets my support.

As to the US Democrats, after this, they should never ever again attempt to lecture me on Democracy, because they clearly cannot handle it. Perhaps they should rename themselves. Oh wait, daddy never taught them how to lose like a man.

Anyway, I never really was a Stones fan.

— Harry Booyens

 

Choosing one’s friends badly – South Africa and China

28 Sunday Feb 2016

Posted by Harry Booyens in South African Matters, The US & South Africa

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African National Congress (ANC), China, Russia, South Africa, United States

In October 2015 I published an update to the Heart of Darkness Scenario that I had painted before the 2014 National Election in South Africa. In that update I sketched how the National Socialist ANC government of South Africa has cozied up to China and has become a member of BRICS. In that piece I warned that the US economy was improving while the Chinese Miracle was going the way of all economic miracles, namely down. In simple terms, I warned that the ANC was going to place South Africa on the wrong side of history.

The Globe & Mail is a highly respected Canadian newspaper and is often referred to as the “national  newspaper”. So, it is of some significance when that paper, against the above background, prints a massive centrepiece on the relationship between China and Africa (read “South Africa”).

Iron&SteelThe G&M uses the shutdown of the giant EVRAZ steelworks outside Witbank as its posterboy for the economic malaise that has struck South Africa due to its over-association with China. It reports that some 50,000 jobs in the Iron & Steel industry are in jeopardy. The entire industry is in crisis. It quotes Solidarity as stating that its laid off members are living on “cabbage and pap”.

At the heart of this sits the ANC and its infatuation with anything that is not of the “White Man’s West”. The G&M describes how the ANC sent delegations to Beijing to study the Chinese system. It even drafted plans to to emulate the Chinese “central party school”. It declared that the Chinese Communist Party “should be a guiding lodestar” for the ANC’s policies. The ANC’s admiration of China got completely out of hand when one ANC cabinet minister suggesed the Great Wall of China had been built in just 10 months. Another ANC leading light suggested that China’s “Opposition parties” were far superior to “their” South African counterparts, apparently not realizing that there are no Opposition parties in China. Then again, the ANC never has been a great brains trust. South Africa has explicitly stated that it wants its China relationship to be a deliberate counterweight to Western influence.

The economic reality, however, is turning out rather different from the dream. As the “Chinese Miracle” deflated, Africa’s exports to China fell 38% in 2015. Chinese investment declined 40%. Overall trade between Africa and China is down 18%. Nigeria and Zambia have already sought loans from the IMF. The South African Mining industry has  lost 47,000 jobs since 2012 and is planning on cutting another 32,000.

Jakkie Cilliers, a highly respected security analyst, is quoted by the G&M:

In exchange for membership in the BRICS, South Africa appears to have given China a licence to de-industrialize the country. The South African government misses no opportunity to ‘buy Chinese,’ importing anything from scarves and caps for the African National Congress to cheap consumer goods, which should be made in South Africa.

Feelings may very well be mutual. China’s 20% investment  in Standard Bank is now worth less than half of what it paid in US dollars. From a South African perspective even the regional secretary of NUMSA (the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa) has ventured that the ANC has “made a strategic error in its Chinese partnership“. He comments,

They’re taking our natural resources and creating jobs in China, not South Africa. The relationship benefits China, not us. In fact, we are being economically colonized by China.

Wow! You don’t say!? Is one actually expected to pretend that this was not forseeable? In fact, South Africa itself is the example that proves the rule. Its economy grew at an enormous world beating rate in the 1960s under apartheid. But, that was not sustainable. These miracles never are. It seems Africa’s Black leaders have reduced their own philosophy to a decision as to who they wish to be colonized by. Yet Africa has its own voices that warn about economic matters, such as George Ayyiteyi of Ghana and Dambisa Moyo of Zambia. But, they are not listened to, much as successful Black Americans are more often than not disowned by their fellow Black Americans. Certainly, the devout liberals of the West do not listen either.

The ANC’s all-consuming hatred of all things “White”, including the entire West, is steering South Africa over a cliff. In anticipation of the November 2016 presidential elections in the United States the ANC shall have to reposition the country, or suffer dire consequences.

They can consider themselves warned.

Déjà Vu: Obama reliving the Soviet 1970s

03 Saturday Oct 2015

Posted by Harry Booyens in The US & South Africa

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Al Nusra, apartheid, Arab Spring, Democracy, Iran, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Obama, Putin, Russia, South Africa, Syria, United States

—Before I expound on this issue, I would like to make the following very clear:

♦1.  I consider the United States the Greatest Force for Good in the World. To the extent that I criticize, it is in the hope that at least some of what I explain might help to restore that country to its proper leading place in our world.

♦2.  All that I explain below about the 1970s may be found in Chapters 22 and 23 of AmaBhulu.

♦3.  On 9 Jun 2002 this author predicted for an Israeli business visitor that the next Democratic Administration in the United States would sell out Israel. The warning was politely laughed off and I was told it would never happen.

The United States 1975 – International Position

In 1975, the United States was in very bad shape. The country had just hounded its president out of office and the Vice President, Gerald Ford—a good man—was in office. The US had shortly before lost the Vietnam War in particularly demoralizing fashion. HeloditchIt had lost around 60,000 men in that war, partly due to demanding that its men fight with their hands figuratively tied behind their backs. On April 30 of the year, a shocked Western World had to see American seamen shove helicopters into the sea (photo) the previous day to make way for others to land on aircraft carriers with people evacuated from the fallen Saigon. Desperate South Vietnamese people who had supported the United States had been forcibly shoved away from the last helicopters leaving Saigon, thereby sentenced to a life of Communist re-education if not death. The Americans called it “Operation Frequent Wind“, and it lives in infamy.

Inside the United States

A Democratic Party majority ran both Houses of Congress. They had the requisite 60% of the votes in Congress to override any presidential veto. Their focus turned almost immediately to finding ways to curtail the abilities of their own Central Intelligence Agency which they blamed for the war. The nation was in a funk about “little wars” turning into Vietnam-like nightmares for Americans. I am keenly aware of the emotions and convictions of the time and count Americans on different sides of that argument as my personal friends, including so-called “Draft Dodgers” who fled to Canada. Culturally, the United States seemed to completely ignore the International Communist Revolution and focused instead on its own parochial internal Social Rights. While a rampant USSR promoted the International Communist Revolution all over the world under the Brezhnev Doctrine, the United States ignored the planet and promoted the Sexual Revolution within its borders. The United States had grown myopic and obsessive about gender. The best this author can say, is that the 1970s music was very good.

In this introspective psychological state the United States elected the Georgia Governor and peanut farmer Jimmy Carter as president in 1976. He appointed Andrew Young, a Black Caucus member [read that link to the end], as UN ambassador. Together they created what most Americans agree today was the worst administration the country had seen since world War I. It is a rare Democrat indeed who will today defend that Administration.

The Russian led Response

The Russians are a chess playing nation. Correctly sensing the self-inflicted weakness of the United States, the Russian dominated Soviet Union made its move. Using Cubans as a proxy army it moved into Angola in 1975 on the watch of the Congressionally hamstrung Ford. The Über Liberal Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minster of Canada, made the airfield of Gander in Newfoundland available to Fidel Castro to ship his troops to Angola.

Desperate, several African states turned to South Africa for help. So did Henry Kissinger, still US Secretary of State in 1975. With such compelling pleas as background South Africa elected to back one of the Angolan parties fighting against the Communist supported Angolan government. The story can be read in detail in AmaBhulu, where all the evidence any reader could wish for is provided, including information from declassified US State Department documents.

A Democratic led United States on the World Stage

On 16 December 1975, despite desperate pleas by President Ford, the US Congress implemented the decision to cut off the financial ability of the CIA to maintain the support effort in Angola. President Ford’s sage words echo across history [1]:

A great nation cannot escape its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today will return as more acute crises tomorrow

In short, an American government in which the Democrats held the controlling hand deserted the field of battle in the face of the enemy. DobryninThe CIA packed its bags and very literally flew off, leaving the South Africans to their fate in Angola. South Africa withdrew back to Namibia. In Luanda in Angola, a senior Cuban intelligence officer took over the facilities that the CIA’s Robert Hultslander had occupied before [2].

The ensuing period is treated in detail in AmaBhulu. However, instead of believing this author and his massive list of reference material in that book, the reader could just accept the truth from the horse’s mouth. The “horse” in this case is Russian Soviet Ambassador to the UN/US, Anatoliy Dobrynin (shown here), who later (1995) stated [3],

…having suffered no major international complications because of its interference in Angola, Moscow had no scruples about escalating its activities in other countries, first Ethiopia, then Yemen, a number of African and Middle Eastern states, and, to crown it all Afghanistan.

For “Ethiopia”, one may read “Somalia”, which was the opponent. And the whole world knows that Afghanistan and Somalia gave us Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The mess in Yemen is still with us. Zaïre, one of the “number of African states”, is today a prime example of a completely failed state. All this would ultimately lead to the World Trade Center attacks on 11 September 2001 and the loss of more lives than the Pearl Harbor attack. The abandoned responsibility certainly returned with a vengeance, and the consequences are with us all still.

Invoking the word “Apartheid”

Back in the 1970s, sensing revolution in the water, the ANC in South Africa initiated the 1976 Soweto Riots. As a result of this, Jimmy Carter and Andy Young found the time and inclination to insist on “One man, One vote” in South Africa [4]. Somehow they thought that their domestic political management model applied to South Africa. That country is today teetering on the brink of collapsing into the most significant national basket case on Earth precisely because of this insistence. Democracy is a superb way of resolving issues and it has its place among civilized people, but does not belong in a country dominated by either base savagery or religious fundamentalism. In 1977 the Soviets exploited the situation by suggesting that the US was feigning concern about the Soviet effort in Ethiopia in order to distract attention from apartheid in South Africa [5].

Hitting Rock Bottom

By 1980, with the Iranian Crisis, the United States finally hit psychological rock bottom.  This author well remembers his best American friend physically in tears about his country; and he was a loyal Democrat!! The indelible image of this Carterperiod is a dejected Carter sitting with his team in the White House near a television set, trying to work until the last few minutes (see photo) of his disastrous presidency, hoping against all hope that the Iranians would release their American captives. Carter was replaced  after his first term in office by Ronald Reagan (below), a man who could rightly stomach America’s international disgrace not a minute longer, and actually did something about it.

The US gets back its Mojo

Over the following 12 years the United States recovered its “mojo” despite some economic setbacks. It is called LEADERSHIP. It is that leadership that led the US to declare the ANC in South Africa a terrorist organization based on hard evidence. It is also that leadership that welcomed President Assad Senior of Syria as ally in the First Gulf War. I have been listening very closely to the US Media over the last month, and there has not been so much as a peep out of them about Assad Senior’s membership of the US Ally Team in that war. But, I remembered the incongruous images of Syrian pilots climbing into their Russian-built MIGs as part of a US attack. I don’t forget such images. The US media does, because it is convenient. And right now, in American minds, Assad Junior HAS TO BE the monster and Democracy HAS TO BE the solution. It never occurs to US administrations that the guys replacing the “monsters” are “monsters” themselves. They just never seem to learn the lesson. They simply do not comprehend that they are misreading an entire culture.

 NOW, FAST FORWARD TO 2015 ⇒


The United States 2015 – International Position

—In 2015 the United States is in very bad shape.  Some seven years before, in 2008, the country was in a funk about its 2003 invasion of Iraq. That war had been a very quick initial success, followed by a comprehensive failure to consolidate the situation. It had all gone wrong and dragged on because of Democracy plugged into Iraq like a square peg in a round hole. Why would Democracy work in a place where there is no regard for another man’s life, let alone his opinion expressed via a cross on a piece of paper? Eventually, the previous president, George Bush, had implemented a “Surge” of military effort and had stabilized the situation. With a loss of around 4,500 men and thousands maimed for no apparent benefit, Americans felt that they had just experienced another near-Vietnam. They wanted “out”. Many used the faulty intelligence employed as reason for the invasion as an expedient basis to justify withdrawal. To make matters worse, the world economy “tanked” at the end of 2008 on the back of American Financial Sector malfeasance that misled the entire world and deeply damaged almost all economies around the globe. Many Americans lost their homes and millions lost their jobs.

Inside the United States

A new presidential Candidate, Barack Obama (shown here), promised he would end the war in Iraq; now approaching six years in the running. By early 2009, the new Democratic Party Government controlled the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate: utter and complete control. As in 1975, the focus immediately swung inward. The economy received little attention, the War in Iraq even less, and the big issue appeared to be Socialized Medicine. Soon the issue was a fictitious “War on Women” and various Social Rights issues. Yet again, under a Democratic administration, the United States had grown myopic and obsessive about gender. This time there was no good music to save the era.

A Democrat led United States on the World Stage

On 18 December 2011, Obama withdrew the last US forces from Iraq. Ironically, the last vehicle to leave was a mine-proof BAE Caiman based on a design by the South African company Land Systems OMC.  Just like Angola, where South Africa had suffered a similar US departure in 1975 and had learned to make the mine-proof vehicles, Iraq was left to fester in the rubble left behind by the United States’ effort. Entirely predictably, the Shia dominated government  promptly turned to diminishing the position of the Sunni and the general situation in the Middle East started to metastasize.

Precisely a year before Obama withdrew from Iraq, the so-called Arab Spring erupted in Tunisia. Soon, a veritable horde of Arab and Muslim African countries were in different states of upheaval. Through idealistic Democrat eyes this was  overwhelming testimony to the irrepressible power of Democracy and its supposed inherent goodness. Thousands of miles away, the much tried white South Africans felt they’d seen this all before and knew how it would end. They were right. They had experience of what Democracy does in uncivilized places. The author certainly realized that Democracy had already given the Shia Hezbollah and its allies veto power in Lebanon and given control to Hamas in Gaza. There was no way that Democracy could bode well in the present Arab world. In South Africa it had given the country to a Listed Terrorist Organization that has since shown its true colors. It would assuredly do the same in the Middle East.

The US helped to remove Muammar Gadaffi (below) from power in Libya, but did not replace him with anything. Ultimately, the US ambassador to Libya ended up dead at the hands of a local Al Qaeda affiliated group on the watch of Hillary Clinton. The Arab Spring failed in Egypt and resulted in the Muslim Brotherhood taking over. This situation was only overcome by yet again letting the Egyptian military restore sanity in non-democratic fashion. Yemen produced a supposedly US-friendly leader that soon fled in the face of Iranian sponsored Houthi attacks. The Americans upped and left Yemen.  Trouble flared and subsided in Bahrain, Algeria, Jordan, Kuwait,  Morocco, Sudan, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, and even in Western Sahara and Mali. Fortunately, the inappropriate domestic management process of Democracy could not make much inroad there, otherwise those countries would surely be terrorist headquarters today.

Syria and Iraq

But it was in Iraq and Syria that an evil straight from Hell was brewing. When matters boiled over in Syria, Obama failed to take decisive action and focused instead on domestic issues with a general overtone of “rights” rather than “responsibilities”. The fictitious “War on women” was receiving more attention than the real wars in the Middle East.

Back in the Middle East, ISIS developed within Eastern Syria from the mire in Iraq.  It chased the largely Shia Iraqi Army out of most of the important Sunni territory in Iraq, taking massive amounts of the American weaponry and vehicles in the process.  Then it started perpetrating the most vile of inhuman crimes on those who would not follow their sick brand of supposed Islam. The world could undeniably see on TV the horror white people had had to deal with in Africa for many decades. The Western World was stunned.

Obama, who is still today veto-proof in Congress, seemed paralyzed. In Syria he was caught between Assad Junior on the one hand and an even worse ISIS on the other. It seems odd to this author that the US in 1990 welcomed Assad’s father as an ally, but Assad Junior was now being painted as a monster. Obama chose neither and backed instead the so called “Free Syrian Army”. This is a force so nebulous and ineffectual as to be non-existent. His reward for this was that 25% of the equipment the US provided ended up in the hands of Al Nusra – “Al Qaeda in Syria”.

The Russian led Response

Correctly assessing the weakness of the American leadership, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin has now made his move. He has no difficulty making decisions. He believes the choice is between Assad and ISIS and that Assad is the lesser of two evils. Therefore he is going to support Assad. As it is, Assad has been a Russian ally for a while and, unlike the US, the Russians do not employ the word “Democracy” as an anti-evil incantation.

Over the past three weeks we received various reports of Russian military equipment and men heading for Syria. It was clear that Putin is a man of action and resolve and understands the interests of his nation. Shrugging off US and European sanctions like an irritating tick bird on his back, he openly flew his Su-24 strike aircraft, ground-support Su-25s (below), and some Su-30 air superiority fighter planes into Syria.

At this point, stinging Internet posts from the Middle East joke ironically that a year of “so-called Allied bombardment” has killed “33” ISIS members. Much of the US air-dropped supplies are said to fall into ISIS and Al Nusra hands. Su25At least one Internet poster cleverly muses that the “33” ISIS members that were killed died “when US supplies dropped on their heads”. US Generals have confessed that, after a year of training,  they now have “4 or 5” recruits trained elsewhere in Syria. The situation is outrageous in the extreme.

After the first Russian bombs dropped, Obama complained that the Russians were bombing  the moderate parties the US is “supporting” and not ISIS.   Putin has denied this, and Foreign Minister Lavrov has been asking how it is that, if the US knows so clearly where ISIS is, it has not obliterated ISIS in its own bombing campaign. Tough question indeed!

And what do we have now?

In one fell swoop, Putin has effectively checked the US influence in the Middle East. Israel finds itself on the front line with the Russian, Hezbollah and Iranian Khuts proxy forces on their border. The country is in late 2015 precisely where South Africa was in 1975 with respect to the Russians, Cuban proxies and MPLA in Angola. The difference is that Israel is not subject to sanctions. If terrorists from Syria now were to strike at Israel the Israelis would in principle not be able to hit back without risking confrontation with the Russian Air Force.

However, here is the interesting twist that was not available to South Africa in 1975. Benjamin Netanyahu has simply ignored Obama and has made arrangements with Putin regarding matters of military air operations. He made it clear to Putin that Israel has no problem with Assad, just with Hezbollah and Iran. After all, Israel is used to having non-Democratic neighbors. It has sensibly been staying out of any inter-Arab conflict. However, it has also been selling Russia military drone technology. Perhaps the fact that Russian is by far the most commonly spoken unofficial language in Israel has played a role.

All this is happening at a time when Barack Obama has just signed a deal with Iran that will allow the latter access to nuclear weapons. Putin helped facilitate this agreement. All this was done over the vehement objections of Israel. Obama’s defense to the justified criticism is essentially, “that was the best we could get“.  No one can blame Israel for turning to Putin in order to survive the last year of Obama’s rule in the United States.

Even before the ink was dry on the Nuclear Deal the leader of the elite Iranian Kuds Force got together with Putin. When we all woke up yesterday morning, Iranian forces were serving in Syria in support of the Russians and Assad. Later yesterday we learned that the Russians now had 50 aircraft in Syria; almost double the number of the day before. This morning we learned that Putin had called up 150,000 military conscripts.

Invoking the word “Apartheid”

Just as the Soviets invoked the word “Apartheid” in 1978, Mahmoud Abbas, leader of West Bank Palestinians Wednesday invoked it at the UN against Israel. Abbas plays to US audiences as “imminently reasonable”. However, Coverhis doctoral thesis was “The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism”. As in Ethiopia in 1977, while the Russians make military moves, others run flak for them using the word “Apartheid”. Abbas is a graduate of Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University, a place that South Africa’s 1970’s government constantly warned about. See AmaBhulu for the author’s personal encounter with another graduate from that place. The Epilogue of the book was written in 2013 and reads (about South Africa):

There is something inherently obscene about the West commending the destruction of its own first outer wall, even as it is preparing to sell out Israel, the guardian on its second outer wall. That country will soon be treated the same way the West treated “the Second America,” and it will be morally assailed by the media. At the same time, the events of the first decade of the 21st century have forced the First America to question its own invincibility. The entire Western Civilization has lost its edge and is losing its place in the world. This work is a wake-up call to that Civilization; an opportunity to stare closely at the beast lying in wait.

Will the United States regrow its Mojo?

I believe it will. However, it will not be under Barack Obama. The nation shall have to find a way to survive his term until February 2017. That is an awfully long time for Putin to do just what he pleases. Meanwhile Obama will keep “staring at the TV in the White House” and wonder “What the hell just happened?”; a deer in the headlights of history. This is what happens when a great nation is badly led.

The frustration for America’s top generals must be beyond endurance. On the ground, mature Americans who lived the 1970s, are saying “Obama is the best thing that ever happened to Carter.” In the rest of the world they talk to Putin.


References

  1.  White House Press Meeting in the Briefing Room, 4:58 pm, December 18, 1975
  2.  National Security Archive, Interview with Robert W. Hultslander, former CIA Station Chief in Luanda, Angola
  3.  Anatoliy Federovich Dobrynin, In Confidence, (1995) p.403
  4.  Time Magazine, Monday, 30 May 1977; SOUTH AFRICA: Mondale v. Vorster: Tough Talk
  5. Bruce D. Porter, The U.S.S.R. in Third World conflicts, (1986), p.189; Radio Moscow transmission July27, 1977.

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