EDonald Trump has returned the power, the groups struggled to find analogies for his management style. Others are like his loyalty demands, patronage networks and interference tactics in the ways of a mafia don. Some put him as a feudal overlord, operating a cult cult with charisma and tied to oaths, rewards instead of laws and institutions. A rough number of artists and creators of AI describes him As a Viking Warrior. And of course, the fierce debates continue if the opportunity reaches for serious comparison with fascist regimes.
While some of these analogies can offer a measure of sharp intelligence, it is basic limited to their eurocentrism – as if the 21st century US Politics Just need to be translated only by lens in the old history world. If we want to understand what unfolds, we should move forward in Scandinavian Sagas and Sicilian Crime Lore.
I found it harder to not find the oddly equalities between new US events and increases in the Cold War-era dictators in Africa. It started with Trump’s Change the Gulf of Mexico and DenaliThat recalls how Mobutu Sese was, in a personal whim, changed Congo to Zaire in 1971. Geography revision is many of Africa because of history of colonialism, but today the US has also begun changing names.
Trump’s Depty to National Guard troops And the Marines of Los Angeles after the protests of immigration attacks echoed the Mobutu wants facing streets of streets to crush protests. The blunt use of military force to prevent home opposition is a tactic associated with numbers like IDI Amin in Uganda, Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and Paul Behind Cameroon – either in consequential results.
Trump’s aggressive run of unsolicited latino workers is also similar to the expulsion of us 1972 in Asia Minority in Uganda. Amin it made it as a way to restore the economic power to “ordinary Uganda”, but it brings financial destruction. Catching the odd, theatrical economic measures that look good on television but the ruin of practice is another stunning resemblance. Trump’s tariffs, announced with patrotiotic fanfare in the “liberation day”, provoked Grandiose land reforms in the 1980s, which hastened the collapse of Zimbabwe.
Anti-intellectualism, egomania and grandeur cheats are signs of African dictatorships. The Félix HOUPHIX of Ivory Coast-Boupy-BOIGNY establishes a copy of St Peter’s Basilica in his home town. Jean-Bédel Bokassa was crowned with his own “emperor” in Central African Republic. “Marshal” Mobutu ensures that CONCORDE land can make In his native village. A similar extravaganza in ambition reached the US, with Trump Acceptance of a Luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar and hopes his face carved on the rushmore farm Beside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Washington’s Army Parade on the day that the US military was 250 and Trump was aged 79 one more time to grow self narcissism. A populist personality cult and masculine pride often lead the hand in deep paranoia and contempt. Trump’s uninterrupted war on the academy and the free press will fit in the content of this tradition. In Equatorial Guinea, President Francisco Macías Nuuma violates the word “intellectual“And accused of academics. Amin failed universities to the point of the brain.
At first sight, watching Trump as a western version of one of African dictators can be vigorous. After, his interest in the continent appears limited by its natural resources, not political models. Travel tariffs and travel restrictions he recently released hit many African countries that are difficult to suggest praise to any African.
What else, has Trump never set in the African land and reportedly dismissed the continent as a cluster of “Shithole countries“. Only when a raw dealing material appears in life, like last week if a”Peaceful peace“Among the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed in the White House.” We got, for the United States, many mineral rights from Congo as part of it, “Trump said.
But once the comparison between Trump and a cold dictator of the war is made, it’s hard to not see. And it should not surprise us. The postcolonial dictator is, to a significant degree, an American creation. Soon or easy, it’s got to go home.
The US supports refresive regimes of non-Cold War weather, viewing them as principals against communism – not only in Africa, but in Asia and Latin America. The dictators like Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, Saula in Indonesia, Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Jorge Rafaél Videla in Argentina remained in power thanks us. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the US suddenly left allies and beat the gospel in democratic. Even if the 1990 rhetoric is abundant about human rights, good governance and rule of law, the penalty is due to the absence of autocracy.
We are now witnessing a surprising change. With the death of USAID and this withdrawal from a paper that emphasizes democracy in the world, it is not only returned to democratic examples of teachers of authority.
The trump regime’s view through the Cold War-era lens autcracies in the postcolonial states offer a structure to strengthen and strange.
If there is a lasting lesson from African autocrati history, this is: things become an evil, fast. Collar Dictory Cold War is not fierce, bloody and often ends with state disturbance and collapse. Although their histories also showed that if courts were good and legislatures reduced rubber, independent media in terminal religious and academic forts. After all, soon or easy, dictators died, while collectively remained.
