If we don't educate children in history, culture, languages, religion, traditions, ethics and critical thinking preferring instead to limit them to STEM subjects, then we are raising a generation of easy to manipulate morons. This is becoming ever more obvious today.
They don’t just want Venezuela’s oil.
They want the lesson.
They want every country watching to understand the rule:
If you nationalize.
If you choose your own partners.
If you refuse the IMF leash.
If you keep your resources for your people.
You will be punished until you submit.
That is not foreign policy.
That is organized intimidation.
"I hate African puppets more than I hate their foreign puppeteers because foreign interference can't work without local collaborators..."
This is a bullshit statement uttered by cowards and colonised people. What you really mean is this:
"Even though I know that my ultimate enemy is not really my idiot brother who has an outsider's hand up his ass, but the outsider who has his hand up my brother's ass, I am afraid to confront the powerful outsider who is the ultimate source of the problem, so I'd rather fight to the death against the easy target next to me."
It's just regular old African self hatred dressed up in pseudo-intellectual clothes, but some of us see right through it. It's the exact same cowardly behavioural pathology that leads Africans to carry out the most brutal street justice against people who steal phones and snatch purses, while genuflecting on the same street before people who steal entire budgets for hospitals, schools, and roads.
When you are too much of a bitch to tackle your real adversary and confront your own fear, you deflect that energy towards easy and more accessible targets. That's why many Nigerians will agree with me that Bola Tinubu is the spawn of Satan, but the minute I point out that Satan lives in Washington, Tinubu is really just his water carrier, and the US State Department is the actual mastermind behind the deadly assault on Nigeria's economy and security over the past 17 years, the number of retweets will suddenly reduce.
They want to drag Tinubu that looks and sounds like them, but not the CIA director in Langley that is Tinubu's boss.
It's also why some Nigerians completely lose their minds at the mention of the word "Fulani", but they are not interested in finding out how come a nomadic indigenous group of cattle herders suddenly began having access to weapons that even the Nigerian military does not have. They see news about Fulani militia ransacking villages in a mineral-rich region, and their only takeaway is "fuck Fulani people." It never occurs to them to wonder how come these semi-literate nomads came to possess weapons that cost more than Nigeria's per capita income, and why displacement of villages sitting atop mineral riches suddenly became a "Fulani" preoccupation after 2010. Nobody needs that information. Just "Fulani bad" is enough!
The ones who think that Muslim/Yoruba/Hausa/Fulani people are their biggest enemies in the world and that Netanyahu/Trump will give them "Biafra" are not interested in knowing how come what was supposed to be a 6-week "police action" in 1967 turned into a deadly 3-year civil war costing over 3 million lives. They're not interested in the fact that Israel provided arms to both sides, and that France armed "Biafra" not to win, but to make the war drag on and cause maximum suffering to Nigeria as retaliation for Nigeria's public opposition to French nuclear bomb testing in Algeria. All this important context is unimportant. All they know is "This black man that looks just like me and lives down the road from me is my biggest enemy in the world."
Same phenomenon in DR Congo where many Congolese nationalists will tell you that Paul Kagame is Satan himself and Rwanda is the source of all their security problems - but they will never acknowledge that Rwanda by itself can never destabilise a country nearly 100 times bigger without the active and ongoing involvement of a powerful foreign backer. Tshisekedi will loudly excoriate Kagame and condemn Rwanda, then he will enter a plane and fly to Washington to sign a "peace deal" with Rwanda brokered by the very USA that has carefully manufactured every crisis in DRC since 1962, and which is currently building a giant metal straw to suck cheap Congolese minerals from the Kolwezi mining district to Lobito port.
Always avoiding the necessary confrontation with the criminal masterminds by displacing the aggression toward fellow African bottom feeders! Look how well that's been working out for you!