You’ve heard of Sun Tzu.
But Carl von Clausewitz?
Probably not—
Unless you’re in a military academy.
Yet his book On War is a strategic masterpiece.
Not just for generals—
But for anyone facing high-stakes decisions.
This 🧵 breaks down its key lessons—
One by one👇
In the middle of what I might call a discussion on Friday, someone asked, “How exactly is the US exploiting Nigeria?” I couldn’t even respond, not because I lacked an answer, but because I was exhausted. Exhausted from the emotional labor of constantly explaining to fellow Africans, many of whom have internalized deep colonial wounds, how their lives are shaped by forces they’ve been conditioned not to see.
It was a moment of disappointment, because how does one live in a country where IBB forced a Structural Adjustment Programme upon us, where Tinubu is implementing a destructive trident of cold-turkey economic policies, fuel subsidy removal, currency floatation, and IMF loans to patch a broken budget that lawmakers would help themselves to trillions in and still ask such a question.
People often point to military interventions, regime changes, or CIA-backed coups when talking about US exploitation of the global South. These are valid points, but for me, the real weapon, the most silent and most effective instrument of control, is the US dollar.
Once you follow the money, once you trace the line from the smoke to the fire, you realize that the dollar isn’t just a currency. It’s a system of domination and its supremacy was established when most of the global South was still under colonial rule, and by the time many African nations gained independence, the financial world had already been built around it.
Today, most global trade is conducted in dollars. If your country doesn’t earn enough of them, it must borrow. For nations like Nigeria, with weak infrastructure, low industrial output, and heavy import dependence, the result is a dangerous pattern, borrow to trade, borrow to survive.
This dependency isn’t abstract, it is visceral. It means the fate of our economy is tethered to policies crafted in Washington. If the US Federal Reserve raises interest rates, we feel the shock instantly. Capital flows out, debt servicing becomes harder, our naira tumbles, and our inflation spikes. Meanwhile, the American economy absorbs the pressure it exported to us without missing a beat. We are punished for crises we did not cause, punished by a system we did not design.
And once you are deep enough in dollar debt, they begin to dictate your choices. The IMF will tell you to remove subsidies, devalue your currency, and liberalize your economy, even if these policies bleed your people dry. It does not matter if children drop dead in the streets from hunger or if transportation costs become unbearable overnight. What matters is debt repayment, credit ratings, and foreign investor confidence.
Tinubu’s trip to the Nasdaq was a case study of this reality. The entire thing was like what I’d call a “Puppet premiere” doubled as an IPO for Nigeria’s economic soul, an unveiling ceremony of another self-sabotaging African leader. He boasted about how easy it would now be for foreign investors to repatriate dollars from Nigeria, as though capital flight was an economic strategy. The underlying message was simple; we’ve weakened our currency, cheapened our labor, and made our economy open for extraction. Not for the benefit or comfort of Nigerians, but for the comfort of foreign capital.
This is what dollar dependence really means, it is an open wound, a constant bleeding of value from the periphery to the center. And if you step out of line? The US can sanction you. They can block your access to global finance. The entire financial system is dollar-centric, with IMF loans, SWIFT transfers, and international trade, all roads run through Washington. There is no buffer for the global South. We are told to behave, or be locked out of the global economy. That is not a partnership, that is coercion.
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