in a near destitute conditions. How do the people who teach you to succeed in life, spectacularly fail at it themselves?
Ochieng could not help but draw a parallel to the political ideologies that were adopted by African countries at the onset of liberation and the outcome that is the present reality since what Africans countries were told and what happened to the tellers is a story by itself.
Those that adopted the red communist ideology were considered the failures of the global stage since it was then commonly understood that the system was unnatural and it required physical force to maintain those dictatorial regimes.
From West Germany to the USSR, Czechoslovakia to China, North Korea to Vietnam and even including Cuba, the red army march was a synonym of bloodletting and atrocious state controlled repressive regimes that tortured and murdered its own populace.
Practically the whole of South America, that adopted the communist ideology, transformed into a warzone as the red zones globally became insular and impenetrable, places where one could neither enter or leave. They were nation prison-states.
The liberal side of the globe which included North America and Europe were of a capitalistic trajectory having transitioned from colonial powers which was to a large extent just another way of calling them merchant states that controlled global trade.
Trade was however an euphemism for pillaging as there was never fair trade but legalized crime against humanity usually camouflaged as benevolent civilizing missions or the spreading of the Christian faith which oddly originated in the places they were colonizing.
Hypocrisy notwithstanding, the colonists were able to sit at a round table in Europe and share out the world as though the rest of humanity did not exist and to pull off this stunt, they had to preach a superiority dogma and declare themselves as God’ s agents.
Somewhere in that history, Jews stopped being the chosen people and the white race assumed this role and to ensure that there were no future pushbacks on claims of who was chosen, the Jews were cast in the villain role as those that killed the Christ.
Hypocrisy notwithstanding, the colonists were able to sit at a round table in Europe and share out the world as though the rest of humanity did not exist and to pull off this stunt, they had to preach a superiority dogma and declare themselves as God’ s agents.
violence of the colonial marauders led Marx to famously state that religion was indeed the opium of the masses. Unfortunately, capitalism was tied to Christianity and communism rejected religion.
To the red nations, capitalism was anathema, as all the troubles of mankind could be traced to a refusal to share the national cake and as is in every age, economic and political theorists arose to proclaim the superiority of their version of governance.
Then the propaganda machinery went into high gear on both sides and the hapless African trying to find his footing was bombarded with the seductive appeal of communal sharing and the liberal ideas of capitalism and the associated freedoms.
That bitter rivalry was played out in the region by our founding fathers who spectacularly accused each other of leading a‘ man eat man society’ while the other retorted that there was no sense in leading a‘ man eat nothing’ society.
This divergence in political philosophy led to the collapse of the East Africa Community and so deep is the mistrust that was engendered that to this very date efforts to revive that noble institution have been hampered by deliberate lethargy by some members.
Ochieng would like us to pause and fastforward to the present and consider what happened to those nations that were the originators of our decades of discord and interrogate how they have fared compared to us in the region.
The Berlin wall fell and the West Germany absorbed the East into a productivity machine that has for decades been the engine for European resurgence. The Berlin story seems just like another unfortunate hiccup in the turbulent European history.
Germany but the fact that they were one people separated by ideology made it easy for the subsequent unification which was smooth and seamless.
The USSR disintegrated and with it the infamous cold war, froze, leaving countless third world countries in limbo as they were now rudderless in a world where they had been puppets in a world dictated by foreign interests.
The collapse of the USSR left a host of ideological orphans who did not really espouse the communist manifesto but would parrot leftist political slogans which became the go to vocabulary of the many third world coups engineered by the cold war antagonists.
Russia has never come to terms with the reality of the communist collapse and they still have dreams of grandeur which they have kept alive by intimidating former vassal states by invading Crimea and currently engaged in a senseless war in Ukraine.
Ironically Russia would today be a shell of itself if the USA did not shield it from facing accountability of its actions. The Trump Putin bromance is one of the weirdest alliances that the world has ever witnessed.
The average American grew up knowing that Russia is the enemy and they do actually hate the country, but in a twisted logic, Trump has a very high regard for Putin which feeds the conspiracy theory that Russia helped rig the 2016 elections.
Putin, a former KGB operative, has a definite hold on Trump. Could Russia have damaging electoral information or evidence regarding the secretive Epstein files since all indications points to the fact that Putin may very well be blackmailing Trump.
The bizarre logic that managed to combine the peace of Christ teaching and the
It is even difficult to recall that people actually lost lives in an attempt to flee East
How would one otherwise explain the reason Trump disabled NATO and turned