Anyone notice that Don Lemon and other liberals announced that the Image of riots and violence in the street were the only thing sticking in the minds of Americans and needed to stop, and “poof” the riots in Portland stop after 91 consecutive days? Tell me there isn’t someone controlling all of this.
BOLSHEVIKS ahh that's just tinfoil hat stuff - just a few years ago many here stirred up a lot of laughter saying such . Nobody seems to laugh about that anymore - wonder why ?
Wait until a solitary figure stands up to represent BLM/Antifa/et al on the American political stage.
That personage will be the real threat. Same damn pattern:
https://www.counter-currents.com/2020/07/rhodesia-fights-back/Death by diplomacy
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the end of it. The terrorists shot down another passenger plane, that one with no survivors. The clever Rhodies figured out how to stealth their civilian aircraft against shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles. Other terrorist incidents occurred, and so did devastating retaliations. (At one point, lopsided losses like this almost convinced Robert Mugabe to give it up and try for peaceful change instead.) However, the end was soon to come.
Ian Smith, Rhodesia’s leader, was a straight shooter, a rare trait in a politician. His tragic flaw was that he never imagined that the British government would be capable of selling out their own kindred people. Some other things were afoot too. As it happens,
International Opinion isn’t exactly such an impersonal force as it might seem, and Henry Kissinger – one of its major figures – inserted his hefty proboscis. He hinted to South Africa’s Prime Minister Vorster that the USA would ease up on them if only they threw Rhodesia under the bus. Eventually, that was a done deal, and after losing their last ally and trading partner in the area, Smith was forced at last to bow down to the pressure.
Still, with Kissinger’s helping hand, what could possibly go wrong? This was the stately senior diplomat who had negotiated peace for South Vietnam a few years back, and that turned out
great, didn’t it? More seriously, one can’t blame Ian Smith, since at that point, it would’ve been pretty much impossible for anyone to do better. He did buy his people fifteen years of survival. Things might’ve worked out if Rhodesia hadn’t been treated like a rogue state by Western governments that made optics cucking their number one priority.
Note well, although Ian Smith was supposedly a bad guy, the Carter administration was meanwhile awfully chummy with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. On April 12, 1978, Jimmy the Tooth obsequiously greeted Romania’s Communist dictator (and all-around moonbat) Nicolae Ceauşescu with the following heart-warming encomium:
Our goals are also the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world share in growth, in peace, in personal freedom, and in the benefits to be derived from the proper utilization of natural resources. We believe in enhancing human rights. We believe that we should enhance, as independent nations, the freedom of our own people.More mush from the wimp, right? If this wasn’t enough liberal schmaltz, Carter came out with slobbering praise for Nork dictator Kim Il Sung in 1994.
The aftermath
In the end,
International Opinion got what it wanted. Rhodesia was renamed Zimbabwe, and Salisbury became Harare. Then terrorist leader Robert Mugabe got in office and became a corrupt Marxist dictator — what a surprise! Following that, the country quickly became a Leftist hellhole, the blacks ended up impoverished, and the whites were dispossessed and brutalized.
Then the revolution ate itself. The Ndebele who had supported ZAPU came under fire by Mugabe’s ZANU, backed by the Shona tribe. This event was the
Gukurahundi, a rather odd euphemism for black-on-black violence which likely resulted in tens of thousands of deaths — among other thuggery — before they called it off. Why haven’t we heard more about this — don’t black lives matter? (Perhaps ZIPRA shooting down those planes hadn’t been worth it in the end.) Rhodesia once had been the famous “breadbasket of Africa,” but as Zimbabwe, it became a starving Third World dictatorship with an epically dysfunctional economy. After all the other misrule that followed too, the blacks were certainly not better off than they had been under a British aristocracy.
International Opinion kept its baleful eye on South Africa. It turns out that Kissinger’s offer to PM Vorster was worthless — what a surprise! After the idiot Vorster carried out his side of the bargain, he got double-crossed. They’d thrown Rhodesia under the bus, and after deserting their neighboring ally, now it was their turn on the chopping block. Even so, they also put up a spirited fight against Marxist-backed terrorists for a while. This much inspired the Skrewdriver song “Strike Force”.
In the end, though, South Africa lost its resolve, somehow forgetting what happened to Rhodesia. A close plebiscite opened up the electoral franchise to everyone — “one man, one vote,” just like
International Opinion ordered. This event was accompanied by tears of joy from millions of bleeding-hearted liberals around the world, repeated once again after that cuddly teddy bear Saint Nelson took office. Unfortunately for the British and Afrikaner populations, the black majority had been agitated against them for decades. Moreover, it was naïve, easily led by demagogues, and not ready to govern itself. Following that, the country quickly became a Leftist hellhole, the blacks ended up impoverished, and the whites were dispossessed and brutalized.
International Opinion doesn’t have too much to say about that — what a surprise!
Solidarity is paramount
Where did things
really go wrong with Rhodesia? All throughout, this was a proxy conflict within the larger context of a little misunderstanding called the Cold War. The Soviets and ChiComs supported their own factions, which carried out bombings, conducted farm murders (still a common event in the region), and of course shot down passenger planes. After all this, did it end with the USA and Britain, which were ostensibly anti-Communist powers, rising to support the beleaguered Rhodesians? Of course not! The one reason was that it was still a white government in Africa, and we can’t have
that, now can we?
Ideological solidarity, standing up for our kindred people, and common decency were all less important to the politicians than optics cucking. What would have happened if Britain, America, and other Western countries had recognized Rhodesia diplomatically and started trading with them? Why, then some clown like Muammar Gadhafi could’ve made a fuss in the UN General Assembly and called us all a bunch of
raaaacists. Heaven forfend! Anything to prevent such a dire fate!
Eventually, the ChiCom faction came out ahead, represented by Robert Mugabe’s ZANU. Still, the Soviets deserve a special call-out for their treachery in the matter, which ultimately gained them nothing. Recall that it was the paramilitary arm of the Marxist-Leninist ZAPU which caused a large part of the trouble here. ZIPRA and its Ndebele followers had no ability to manufacture their own surface-to-air missiles or AK-47s, of course. If the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies had put race over ideology — granted, that’s quite a lot to ask of Leftists — they could’ve stayed out of it and avoided getting tooled. Leonid Brezhnev had an occasional moment of clarity, but this was not one of them. Granted, the American establishment was up to some highly counterproductive things too, but all that’s another matter.