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Well, good I suppose, though I feel like this could be sort of a desperate attempt to shore up geopolitical influence that's being deflated by our relationship with Israel.
Post-WWII rules based order is kind of disintegrating and neoliberals are scrambling to prop it up without actually admitting to why it's failing.
It has nothing to do with Israel, but that Russia is fueling crisis in Africa.
I'd imagine it's connected to both. Russia and China are the main antagonists to US hegemony, hoping they'll get to be the next empire if they can drive enough of a wedge between western allies and get enough debt colonialism going in SA and Africa.
So yeah, they are fostering crisis, authoritarian sentiment, and spinning anti-democratic narrative wherever they can, but Israel's genocide and complete disregard for things like the ICC/ICJ (the kinds of institutions upon which the post-war rules based order is supposed to rest) has only further degraded US international standing. Biden vetoing UN resolutions and chastising the international courts for investigating Israel does not help.
Biden's whole election schtick was that he was there to reassure the rest of the world after Trump's carastrophic administration, and now he's showing his ass anyway.
A vote for Biden was a vote to return to the status quo, which is appealing when the country is slipping into fascism but doesn't actually solve the root problems.
Definitely, he never should've run and the other candidates never should have endorsed him as they dropped, especially since Sanders actually had steam and could've easily fulfilled the "Not Trump" space that Biden claimed he needed to be there to fill.
But, neoliberals are gonna neolib.
Sanders could've won against Trump in 2016 and he could've won against in 2020. Yet, here we are in 2024...
I think this has everything to do with the "Kenya-led intervention" US imperialists are trying to create in Hati
You do understand Haiti is being run by gangs at the moment, right? Close to a hundred thousand people have fled the capital city, this isn't some righteous revolution or something, it's a bunch of small time fascists taking advantage of a weak state and an unwillingness by the US to get involved try to seize power.
The UN and US are providing funding to help Kenya provide some kind of security. Whats your alternative? Let Haiti burn?
Wonder how haiti came to be run by gangs 🤔/gen
TLDR a history of French colonialism which is why people want Kenya at the wheel on any intervention rather than a former colonial power.
Not an answer. You literally don't have one, all you've got is "America bad".
Welp, the US is sitting this one out, so now's your chance to offer a solution on how to help without US interference.
I wasn't answering, should have put a /gen
They will be greeted as liberators, solving the problems we made
Please don't need our help right now Kenya... Please don't need our help right now Kenya... Please don't need our help right now Kenya... Please don't need our help right now Kenya... ... ...
Cool! Love it! Thanks for being a friend Kenya!
Kenya's anti-tax protesters enter Parliament, several shot 'dead'
Dozens of Kenyan lawyers protest what they say is judicial interference by President Ruto
I guess America's friends are unified in their disregard for a fair judiciary and the right to protest.
Nothing new for the US empire
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This is more like a quid pro quo of neo-imperialism.
Kenya's government, not it's population, are willing to act as the tip of the spear for operations that aren't politically feasible for Washington e.g. troop deployments in Haiti.
In return they get the kind of benefits that come with doing favors for the American Security State.
This also should be viewed in the context of the Niger coup and their expulsion of Western antiterrorism troops from local bases, and the expansion of Russian interests and security partnerships in the region as well.