ARROGANT US DEEP STATE HUMILIATED AGAIN IN AFRICA

    Things haven't been going especially well these days for the Deep State and their overlords on Wall Street in the continent of Africa. Our brave xhes in uniform have failed ignominiously trying to defend their commercial and smuggling efforts in the Red Sea. Sanctions leveled against various countries have borne no effect; in fact, popular efforts to boycott Western-owned commercial cartels have intensified. The African churches are revolting against the 'woke' edicts coming out of the Vatican and elsewhere. Egypt and Ethiopia became members of the BRICS coalition in January.

    Frustrated by these developments, the Pentagon's head of US Africa Command, Michael Langley fumed last week to our equally impotent Congress that "Russia was actively seeking to broaden its influence in African nations, with several countries nearing a critical juncture where they could come under its sway." Obediently, the House appropriated an additional $332 million to counter this 'threat,' although they never seem to find available funds for issues in the United States. Nobody really knows where any of this money is actually going to go; or even why we have a 'US Africa Command' in the first place since we have no territory on that continent. These days, however, the phrase national security operates like an open sesame to the US taxpayers' wallets. 

    Langley, however, did not meet with the same success in Africa on Saturday when he and an entourage of Beltway bureaucrats stormed into Niger---without even bothering to inform the local authorities---to negotiate US presence at an obscure fort in the Sahara Desert which the Nigerien Government intends to close. The President of Niger snubbed the Junta's henchmen, sending them home empty-handed. Today, their official spokesman announced that all previous military agreements between Niger and the United States were cancelled. Apparently, Nigerien politicians have a little more self-respect than their American counterparts and don't simply jump when ordered. 

  "The government of Niger therefore strongly denounces the condescending attitude combined with the threat of reprisals by the head of the American delegation against the government and the people of Niger,"  Col. Amadou Abdramane said, in an official statement yesterday. The Beltway bullies apparently even accused such officials who met with them of making a secret deal to supply uranium to Iran. A fabricated story about Nigerien uranium was employed as pretext for invading Iraq by the Bush Administration in 2003.

      Incidents like these typically have the Controlled Opposition lamenting that other countries don't fear the International Bully as obediently as American citizens do; and that just proves that the Democrats are weak. The truth is, that this wave of anti-American sentiment currently sweeping Africa would have happened no matter which faction of the Uniparty occupied the White House. Other peoples haven't had decades of cultural erosion imposed upon them like Americans have; consequently they still insist upon being treated like human beings instead of human capital for the so-called Elites to manage like so much livestock. Eventually, people who still retain a degree of character feel they have nothing to lose by fighting back, and they take action. The situation in Niger---like Ukraine and Palestine---was bound to occur once Corporate Deep State hubris and Cultural Imperialism had reached a saturation-point. 

    As we've seen throughout the 21st Century, Americans long ago lost any will to assert their rights, and the tactical mistake that our Establishment makes in Foreign Policy is assuming that other peoples are as dispirited and deflated as their domestic subjects are. Langley's failure in Niger was a perfect example of this attitude in action. Anyone in a position of authority in America never need concern themselves with things like asking permission from those they consider their inferiors and feel at perfect liberty to impose on them without consequence. The Elites have proven time and again that, here, they can order people to accept the most degrading humiliations and insults to their intelligence. Accustomed as they are to dealing with such people, they are completely stunned when they encounter even the smallest show of self-respect from anyone abroad.

    They then make the mistake that all bullies and thugs invariably do: they double-down and behave even more forcefully and arrogantly. As recently as December, the Biden/Harris Junta announced that "withdrawal from Niger was not an option," apparently without much concern for what the Nigerien people actually want to do. 

    Contrary to what the would-be Alphas among the Controlled Opposition say, it is not perceived weakness that is driving this trend. This trend of resistance is coming from the abuse of power and resorting to force with no regard to the interests or desires of the other parties concerned. Rule by fear is the policy of terrorists---the very thing that the Pentagon is supposedly in Niger to prevent. We've spoken here before of the blessings of American Exceptionalism which drove Niger to revolt against its Western masters in the first place. Niger was the sort of place that the Great Reset crowd and the Beltway Deep State would like to bring to everybody. 

   Ultimately, the Junta probably will slink away quietly from Niger and their media parrots will go on to new distractions. However, the inevitable loss of any American influence in Africa will go on; and given the current state of affairs in the US, that is probably the best outcome for the African people.