Is White supremacy is at the heart of the US and the EU Foreign Policy?. Seems to me that the exhortation to “stand with” is no exception to this rule. The history of America, as well as most western nations including Canada, shows this phenomenon to be true. It is through one’s actions that one is known, not by the words spoken. Quite biblical indeed.
Africa has had horrible wars, genocides, and health crises that devastated their nations, keeping this land’s populations in poverty and continual war-like situations. The West loved to devest Africa of its population (cheap labor) long ago, transporting slaves to every corner of this world. Presently the West and China also prefer to gain control of Africa’s natural Recourses and export their profits elsewhere away from a place dearly in need of investment. Poor people are controllable, wealthy Africans are easily manipulated, and African Politicians are often easily corrupted.
Did any western nation send its military into Rwanda when the horrors of Genocide happened.? A Few French legionnaires were sent in to protect their nationals and those African Officials allied to them. The Western Allies, former colonizers to be sure, will take a while making a show of their charitable ways by sending medical supplies to those who suffer. Russia, China, the UK, and EU nations sent both sides of this conflict military supplies. After all African nations are very good clients of the Western Military Complex.
Look what the West is doing now in Ukraine. Outside of military troops on the ground that we know of, everything else is being done to punish Putin’s Russia, who will surely become openly allied to a new partner soon. Yes, China. They have more in common, and less diverging issues. A dictatorship is a dictatorship. Africans should know this after hundreds of years of European political and social manipulation, with multiple installations of puppet regimes working for the West in Africa.
There have been horrible natural and human-made disasters in Latin America, the Caribbean, and throughout the world. The only time nations like America and the EU show economic and political action is when their nation’s economic investments are threatened. Haiti comes to mind. A native indigenous population with African cultural imprints. Multiple natural disasters, with political chaos and massive corruption too. Did America, Canada, or the EU bring about a solution for these people? Housing, Food sources, and protection from multiple gangs are needed, and yet Haiti remains an empty bread basket looking for real substance from their larger neighbors to the north.
Middle-Class America and Canadians are familiar with Europeans in need. The former Yugoslavia fell apart, and civil war with genocide happened. America and Canada responded with troops, money, and political assistance. The west has no problem being warlike when their essential materials like energy sources and natural recourses are threatened. But poor people from a non-European area become something to be studied, considered with any action needing long term evaluation.
The West is moving towards a New Cold War, one that is not ideological but nationalistic in nature. Seemingly Just like the two world wars. Nation pitted against the other, using smaller nations as buffer zones or places where real war will happen. A New Axis of Evil is arising, and it has done so because of the West’s inaction, greed, and manipulative ways.
Western exceptionalism and cultural prejudice can be seen in the political and economic actions enacted against Russia. Russia will look to their Chinese neighbors for economic and political assistance, and those who are poor in every nation of this globe will suffer because of the Mismanagement of World Affairs your seeing on your favorite media sources. Everything that could have been done a decade ago to bring about a peaceful situation in Europe was ignored because those decisions that would have accomplished “peace in our time”(the fool Chamberlain) did on satisfy Russia’s or the West political and economic goals. The poorer nations should cry for a savior, but all they will find are nations that only care about the bottom line.
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
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