Posted on 03/20/2023 8:23:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
South Africa, alas, is not our friend. Despite decades of financial and moral support from the United States, South Africa is drifting into alignment with our rivals for global supremacy. Daniel Greenfield reports for Front Page Magazine:
In November 2022, Climate Envoy John Kerry announced a giveaway of $1 billion in foreign aid to South Africa. The failed racist state which regularly suffers blackouts from its socialist power system was being offered billions to subsidize electric cars and green energy.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claimed that “President Ramaphosa and the South African Government have created a bold plan identifying a clear strategy for achieving South Africa’s most ambitious climate targets.”
In reward for that $1 billion and the billions in foreign aid dispensed over the years, South Africa is conducting joint military exercises with China and Russia.
The Biden administration had little to say except that it was “concerned”, but wasn’t about to tear up that $1 billion check to make sure that a crime-ridden country with $500 million in car thefts a year has all the electric cars its car thieves need to steal and resell.
Naledi Pandor, the African National Congress’ Foreign Minister, a Muslim convert, claimed that it was just “an exercise with friends” and that objecting to her government’s decision to conduct military exercises with China and Russia was an “abuse of international practice.”
The ANC government has the right to conduct joint military exercises with our enemies. And we have the right to stop funding the corrupt ANC Communist party destroying the country.
Unfortunately, bad things are in store for South Africa no matter what the US does. Horrendous levels of violence are now commonplace. And matters could get much worse if, as appears increasingly likely, the power grid collapses. Frank Chung writes:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Three of the BRICS countries
Maybe they don’t want electric cars
I am reminded of an old OLD political cartoon from around sixty years ago.
A woman labeled as The Unaligned world is sitting on Nikita Khrushchev’s lap all hugged up to him.
She is wearing a ring labeled “American Foreign Aid”.
She looks back at Uncle Sam standing there and says...”Of course I love you! I’m wearing your ring aren’t I!”
What will western liberals do now? After all, South Africa is a western white liberal colony, which is why they're the only country in Africa that's been on the "gayvy train."
I ain’t gonna play Sun City.
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