There is nothing surprising about this. As imperialist hegemony weakens and its ability to sabotage sovereign development diminishes, the inherent superiority of socialism as a development model will become increasingly clear to all. This is one symptom of the emerging polycentric world — and part of the long systemic transition from capitalism to socialism.
@theRE657@Echecrates So pure greed; fueled by the stupidity of Nigerians aimed at promoting classism when they're all poor by virtue of their country's economic status in the global world.
A funny conundrum called Nigeria. 🤦🏾♂️
You want to know what imperial conditioning looks like from the inside?
It looks like a person who knows that the United States has the largest prison population in the history of human civilization, and still describes other countries as "unfree."
It looks like a person who knows their healthcare system allows people to die from rationed insulin, and still describes other countries' economics as "failed."
It looks like a person who watched their government spend $2.3 trillion over twenty years building a state in Afghanistan that collapsed in just 10 days, and still trusts that same government's assessment of which other countries are "stable" or "democratic" or "ready for self-governance."
It is not stupidity.
It is something more structurally interesting than stupidity.
It is what happens when the story a person needs to believe about themselves is in direct conflict with the evidence their own eyes can see, and the story wins.
Not because the evidence is unclear.
But because the cost of following the evidence to its conclusion is too high.
Better a comfortable contradiction than an uncomfortable clarity.
The empire is built on that choice, made daily, by millions of people.
No, I happen to know the war started in 1953 when the CIA overthrow Iran's legitimate government on behalf of Big Oil, and then installed the Shah, who robbed the country blind for the next 25 years, and imprisoned anyone who dissented.
When the Iranian people finally had enough and millions poured into the streets in a mass uprising in 1978, Jimmy Carter stupidly gave the brutal Shah sanctuary in the USA.....That's what provoked the student seizure of the US embassy, which could have been easily resolved had Carter sent the Shah back to Iran to face the justice he deserved, and met the students fair demand for an apology for the CIA coup. The so-called 47 year war on America never would have happened if the hard core cold warriors like Brzezinski had not so badly misled the hapless peanut farmer from Georgia.
Piers Morgan attempting to debate world affairs with Jeffrey Sachs is the equivalent of me trying to go toe to toe on theoretical physics with Richard Feynman or Albert Einstein...
Education won't cut it. The change needs to be imposed on them.
This means seizing the levers of power. This means a revolution.
Even if someone had the deep pockets of Bill Gates, you'd still need years to hash out every detail. A revolution is 1% violence and 99% paperwork+politicking
Oga shut the fuck up. That you wear a tie and suit does not mean you know what you are saying. Shut the f up.
The problem of Nigeria and West Africa at large is multifaceted.
Bad governance is a contributory factor, but it is not the only factor. In fact, bad governance itself is an orchestration. It was bound to happen in Africa.
Africa's poverty is multifaceted. Colonialism played a role. But isn't it the only instrument.
1. Africa was set back through Colonialism. The wealth gap from that era matters a lot and gave the other race a huge advantage. Telling people to forget the past is understandable, but denying its impact is foolish.
However, some places that experienced this made it through despite the inequality in resource possession. We can cite Singapore, Japan, South Korea etc. I do not even envy those countries, they are slaves to the US and have zero sovereignty, but that is a conversation for another day.
2. After independence most African countries were only free on paper not practically. Imperialism became a thing. West African countries for instance Nigeria, were still ruled by the Queen even after independence. Those countries we love to reference had minimal Western interest and influence on them because they lacked the resources on African soil. The only Western influence on them later on was based on Security and spying on China.
As a matter of fact, francophone countries still pay the colonial levy to France.
3. After Imperialism, we metamorphosed into neo-colonialism. our present condition.
Countries like Nigeria have no independent government. Great Britain, and the US still influence our policies, system of government, economic model, and even Security.
So the average Nigerian thinks that when they vote the votes count and it elects their leaders. True and False.
Your votes don't really count in the way you believe. Your leaders are to some extent pre-ordained by Great Britain and the US. They decide at least 40% who controls your affairs and who they back to win elections.
This is why they send in independent observers to monitor your elections and approve the leader if it played out how they want by sending in congratulatory messages or not.
If it's someone they can't control they start a smear campaign against him and kick him out of office by labelling him a dictator or criminal and sponsor the opposition they can control. And even go as far as activating an uprising by funding opposition lines.
This is why Peter Obi did a campaign in Chatham to get the approval of the British elites and extend his international influence, appeal, and acceptance.
4. Bad leaders: The impact of bad leaders in Africa's underdevelopment is there, but very minimal and not exaggerated.
Why So?
(a) You don't elect your leaders, they are chosen.
(b) Your leaders are not allowed to express their managerial skills, policies are dictated to them or they can't get loans, can't win elections, and therefore can't modify hostile policies or they will lose access to aid.
(c) Your system of government is alien to you. It was not designed for your development in mind, it was designed with your control in mind and handed over.
This is why every nationalist African leader ends up being assassinated or designated a dictator or internally taken down through a local uprising funded by superpowers.
If you pay attention you can recognise the pattern from Kwame Nkruma to Thomas Sankara to Gaddafi.
African leaders have their flaws. But Africa inherently has no leaders because they are not allowed to lead themselves.
And there is no way any African leader can function and develop their nation if he plays by the rules handed to them.
This is why no matter who you elect, Democracy, Capitalism, and a Federal Republican system of government can never lead to progress in Nigeria or any part of West Africa.
It worked in Japan and South Korea, but that does not mean it can work in Africa. Nigeria is very diverse.
Nigerian history deserves more than scattered Wikipedia pages. For @1000reasons9ja, I created 1800+ dated moments of Nigerian history. You can now trace Nigeria from the 1300s to 2026.
I also added 200 more reasons against T-Pain’s administration.
https://t.co/1EXFx3V47M
Nkrumah studied in the West and decided his continent deserves better. A young Xi led a study visit to the US, saw the beauty, and decided his country deserves that too. There's nothing wrong with studying or working in the West. I mean, they're plundering our resources anyway.
However, just like Danton said, modern-day Africans get there and become deputy Americans and Europeans. They don't bother to learn the systems so they can apply them back home because most have no intention of going back. They stay there, criticise Africa, stunt on people they left back home, and rack up body counts that would shame Messi's 2012 calendar year goals.
The few that do return become puppets, funded and at the beck and call of imperialists. And they do their best to thwart any semblance of a call for true sovereignty while pretending to have their country's best interests.
Vietnam at the end of the American War.
Infrastructure destroyed.
Economy shattered.
Unexploded ordnance across vast swaths of agricultural land.
Hundreds of thousands of political prisoners from the defeated south to manage.
A refugee crisis. A food crisis. A currency crisis.
International isolation.
American embargo.
Soviet support collapsing as the USSR declined.
By every measure, a country that should not have been able to develop.
That is now one of the most cited development successes of the last fifty years.
The variable that distinguished Vietnam from countries that did not recover is not geography, not culture, not natural resources, not colonial history in terms of severity.
It is the quality and continuity of political leadership that was allowed to exist because it could not be removed by force.
Give Africa its Lumumbas.
Give Africa its Ho Chi Minhs.
Stop killing them.
Then ask about development.
A developing country does not need mass democracy. Because it is a massive risk and prone to sabotage. It needs a nationalist government to develop. That's why NO Western country went full democracy from the onset. Also why they force it on your country. You think they love you.
The Color Revolution Playbook Doesn’t Spare “Allies” – Indonesia’s Lesson in Sovereign Realism
Look, I get the flood of questions in my replies every time I cover Indonesia. “But the government is corrupt.” “But Prabowo is pro-US anyway.” “But they’re incompetent – why not let the protests run their course?”
These points sound reasonable on the surface. Indonesia, like every country including the US, has genuine problems: rising living costs, inequality, governance frustrations.
No one denies that.
But let’s cut through the spin and return to basics.
The United States and its network of foundations, NGOs, and “civil society” partners target any country that refuses to become a full vassal. Allies included. Close allies get hit especially hard the moment they show independence.
Instigating chaos is rarely just about immediate regime change — it’s leverage, pressure, and containment. Amplify real grievances through funded networks, train youth in “nonviolent resistance,” flood the information space with coordinated media and lawfare, and the target burns energy internally instead of pursuing pragmatic multipolar ties.
If full capture works (see post-2014 Ukraine), Washington gets a pliable proxy. If not, the instability still weakens and contains the country.
https://t.co/R1MAmo6Z2L
Indonesia is textbook. Strategic sea lanes, massive population, resources, BRICS engagement, balanced relations with Russia and China, and a clear non-aligned stance in the emerging multipolar world.
That alone is enough.
Even under a “pro-US” government, Jakarta won’t be a blind follower. Prabowo’s election was legitimate.
Yet leaked documents show Soros’ Open Society Foundations routing millions via Jakarta’s Kurawal Foundation into youth networks, “independent” media, the Dirty Vote documentary, police reform pushes, and “structural change” training aimed at blocking the elected government’s continuation. One Piece pirate flags as the unifying symbol?
Straight from the handbook.
Real economic pain existed — but it was systematically amplified and directed. Gen Z mobilized with impressive coordination. Classic playbook.
https://t.co/GNBb8qmQG0
Brian Berletic has tracked this exact network for years across the region — NED, USAID, Soros-linked flows behind the unrest, while Western outlets scream “disinfo” at anyone connecting the dots.
https://t.co/x7O8VyPL2k
To the “but it’s corrupt” crowd:
Every government has corruption. Nepal’s KP Oli faced the same accusations — yet he represented the best available defense of sovereignty against this identical playbook.
The US doesn’t actually care about clean governance.
It cares about control. Independent leaders (corrupt or not) get targeted. Compliant ones get installed or protected.
https://t.co/JamXWYipDf
“Pro-US”? Pragmatic relations are not submission. Indonesia balances ties — that’s the point of non-alignment. Its BRICS path and refusal to become an anti-China frontline state threaten the old unipolar order.
US policy and actions across Asia show the standard toolkit: color revolution when convenient, plus sanctions, proxies, and info ops.
Sovereign nations have every right to investigate and restrict foreign foundations engineering “dignified democracy” that conveniently serves Washington’s interests. Indonesia is far too important to let slip into full vassalage.
Real reform comes from internal will, not imported chaos that burns institutions and scares investment.
This isn’t conspiracy.
It’s pattern recognition from watching these operations unfold in real time — Hong Kong 2019, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mexico, and beyond.
Stay sovereign, Indonesia.
The multipolar world rewards those who navigate independently.
❝If you tell a thief that stealing is a crime, he will think that you are jealous of his success and those who benefit from his thuggery will ridicule you and call you names.❞ ~ Mzilikazi wa Afrika #WakeUpEverybody✊🏿