Timothy Birdnow

So what is Biden's Angola?

Biden Visits Africa to Higlight hisSignature Investment Project

The lamest of lame ducks wants to do a Chinese-style Road and Beltway project in somevery unstable countries in imitation of the Chinese, who have been doing such things for years now. But the Chinese have huge advantages; they are in far less debt and can afford to spend such money. They are ruthless too, and are happy to pull bait-and-switch on these countries, and take their property when the nattions cannot pay them back, and finally they just see this as purely geopolitical and are practical about it; Biden no doubt will impose American labor standards on the workers, and push DEI on these countries. The Chicoms are just looking for results.

Biden has bats in his beltway if you ask me.

Competing with the Chinese is a good idea - Biden competing with them is a dreadful one.

This is just another mess Trump will have to clean up when he's in office, methinks.

Here is the money quote:

"Biden is expected to deliver a speech in Luanda highlighting his efforts to close Africa’s infrastructure gap, expand economic opportunities, and promote technological and scientific cooperation with the continent."

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"Close the infrastructure gap"? That was and remains one of the goals of the Global Warming movement. "Climate Change" has always been in part about tying the hands of the developed world so places like Africa can catch up.

But there is a reason why this gap exists and it is political instablility. Africa does not have nations ut groups of tribes under one arbitrarily drawn boundary. They are always at each-other's throats and this will only continue. Building infrastructure does little good as it ends up merely a tool for some potentate who kills all his enemies then nationalizes this infrastructure, squeezing it dry. Here in the U.S. we have ghetto areas that suffer similar problems; you can't build anything new because it will be torn up and torn down. It is far, far worse in parts of Africa; imagine a whole country that is essentially Watts, East St. Louis, or Haarlem. Money and "infrastructure" never solves the problems because the problems transcend the material. There are ancient beliefs, ancient hatreds, ancient thinking at work.

The best way to fix Africa is to Christianize it, and we in what had once been called Christendom have little interest in doing that anymore. We have come to believe that problems are all material in nature, economic forces alone. And we still believe the lie Man is inherently good and all that need happen is the proper alignment put in place, a "just economic order" and everything will fall in line. It doesn't and it never has. Africa needs change - one of heart,not the kind you put in your pocket. Sadly we are no longer ministers of that kind of change. We need change here too, alas.

The Chinese can do this because they are willing to do whatever it takes to get paid back. They are like Mafia shylocks, lending at usurious rates and breaking legs if they aren't paid back in a timely fashion. We, on the other hand, are born suckers and the American taxpayer will wind up underwriting this.

Anyway Biden is trying to set this all in motion so Trump has yet another mess to clean up.

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