02-04-14
2.EU-AFRIKA SUMMIT 2014Welcome to
Imperial Brussels, my President SIR
. Welcome to the eURO Afrika Top, or officially, the EU-Afrika summit 2014.
I do not want you to mess up like Agwambo did, on his interview with
Ceasar's adjuncts. Second, my take: The moment you step outside the borders of Kenya, your are
my president. You fly the national flag outside the borders, and I am loyal that flag. However, within Kenya, the national flag flies everywhere, and every Tom Dick and Harry –
Otieno Kamau and Mutiso as I usually say, is busy giving it no meaning, nor any iota of respect. In fact, former Moi secretary to the cabinet referred to it as just
another piece of cloth --God forbid! And so I call
Sally Kosgei a rotten scumbag.
In Somalia, our soldiers die under that piece of cloth, and on return, it is all that is offered to their loved ones in grief.The flag of my country, I wioud kill for it. I would die under it, with pride. So that it could fly over Kenya to mark independence, however nominal it turned out to be, bravehearts, men and women of all walks and stations, suffered untold horrors and many paid the ultimate price.
The national flag of Kenya is not a token. Of course this is not a universal opinion within Kenya; for it means nothing to your political class, but merely a piece of cloth under whose auspices they can exercise power abusively, all the time looting yourselves of the public treasury to unfathomable riches. That being the case, you wont catch me showing you respect in Kenya. But outside, in foreign lands, especially where enough people will be looking at you like an amusing scumbug, I am comfortable developing the necessary hypocrisy to accord the President of Kenya, whoever he/she be, the maximum respect.
So once again, My President, welcome to Brussels. Imperial Brussels.
Why the qualification imperial?
Because the
EU and the
NATO are headquartered in Brussels, and the EU is the
post-renaissance successor to the
Western Roman Empire which was headquartered at Rome. The NATO is, as you are no doubt are aware, currently the most fearsome military alliance on the planet. Add that to the inner EU being a
300+ million souls entity, with a willing orbit around it of a further
100+ millions [Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, ½Turkey + ½Morocco], that makes an imperial capital.
But the capital is
nervous, and that should inform your dealings. Brussels is just coming out of a long recession, her banks are weak, her population pessimistic of their elite and wary of their adventures, so the
new cold-war in the offing with
Russia is coming at a bad time. Russia is no walkover at the best of times, they recognise; and
Vladimir Putin, the current dictator of Russia, is no man to underestimate at the worst of times. He has annexed the
Crimea, massed troops on the eastern border of the
Ukraine and, today, following a war-like NATO declaration which
in part suspended direct dealings with Russia in the same breath it sought to welcome Ukraine to observer status, Putin has said Ukraine within NATO will guarantee
‘unwelcome consequences’. So the imperial Brussels is nervous. There has been no inter-states war in Europe since the 2nd world war. Has it become a real possibility again?
CAR, officially the hot item on the agenda, is a side issue. People like
Hollande have just been thoroughly thwacked by the electorate. Saving his skin from his fellow irate
Frenchmen is of a greater priority to him than Africans in a far-off god forsaken jungle.
Imperial Brussels needs allies. Global allies. They need to shore up morale.
Sanctions against Russia if only the Western powers are on? Come on! How effective is that? Is that not a bit laughable, if Afrika, Asia and Latin America are not on board, at least in some hidden way, for moral support? Brussels does not want to face Putin alone, given the Americans are also playing a double game. ---No sooner had the EU and Russia reached a rescue package for the Ukraine under president Y
anukovych, than the Americans blasted it to pieces, organising a coup. It is not said loudly, but Brussels felt the knife to the cord, deep in the back. Add that to the fact that the Yankees have bugged
Martin Schulz’s, Barroso’s and
van Rompuy’s phones and offices! [Those are the three EU presidents!]
So you will be visited, sounded out, cajoled around together with the others, if you can be recruited into the Western axis formatting against Putin’s Russia.Stay out of this tribal European quarrel sir! These tribes have been fighting over the Crimea for the past 200+ years! ---
Theirs is to do and die and not ask why ---as the famous line in that famous poem goes! It is a species instinct
for them. Ours should be to take no side, shake our heads and shy away.
But it is an imperial capital, and power relations are unequal,
so blackmail belongs to the assorted instruments of torture, or modern coercion, therefore
watch out for offers concerning your ICC troubles.
You may need a trick better than Ulysses's pretence at madness to avoid the draft to Troy, easily smoked out by Ganymedes!
Power is diffuse in the EU, and it may not be clear to outsiders who is who –remember the exasperation of Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld which I cited above in the
Raila posting of yesters: who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?
For instance,
Manuel Barroso is the president of the European Commission, Herman van Rompuy is the president of the European Council, and there is also the president of the European parliament, Martin Schulz.None of them is directly elected. This is called the democratic deficit of the EU top. But make no mistake, my dear President, the EU, ran by eurocrats, is the most formidable, efficient large bureaucracy on this planet. Delivery of service, that is why it is tolerated for all its non elected powerful commissioners, and the EU, like its predecessor the EEC, has always delivered to its people. This is why given a chance to decamp or exit, Greeks, Spaniards, Italians, they all run to the lap of Mother Brussels. The Italians know, without the firm hand of the eurocrats under Herman van Rompuy, Italy will be relegated to a kind of Nigeria in the middle of Europe, and Greece Malawi.
When the
Kaczynsky twins
then running Poland decided in their catholic country homosexuality was taboo, van Rompuy smilingly told the primitive to negotiate themselves out of the enlightened union. Automatic EU visas and work permits to Poles would be yesterday. With 30% of Poland working in the EU and allied Scandinavia, the political careers of the twins was effectively over. 90% of the catholic land decided homosexuality is not okay, but it is not a problem worth making legislation about! We are not leaving the Union!
This is how one must understand the desperateness of Ukrainians and other east European countries to join the EU which is a dictatorial
entity. ---Hospitals where you do not pay bribes to doctors for surgery; institutions that work without kitu-kidogo. When you come from totally corrupt countries like the Ukraine, you are ready to be a slave, just to live in a political entity with a relatively transparent bureaucratic climate. But still a dictatorship!
Men like you, Uhuru Kenyatta, who ran corrupt regimes, should take time to watch the mature bourgeoisie running an imperial polity, before you grow hoarse professing our independence!
Take your time,
Mr. Kenyatta. You are a young president, if you are careless you will be a meal to seasoned negotiators like
Herman van Rompuy. The guy can negotiate you out of your China bliss before you know it.
I gathered he found Agwambo
too light weight; too mentally disorganised (that means does not follow through the consequences of a line of policy of thought; too grandiose in posture, and not used to straightforward counter. (The latter in Brussels means somebody tells you to your face: find somebody else to bullsh!t, not me. May be like Agwambo, you too, Mr President is surrounded by sycophants who never give you the straight counter. Beware.)
If you have to sell yourself, my President sir, demand your weight twice in gold! ---On your way to Beijin you met Putin. What is he worth to you? --I mean Kenya!
Ha, do not try a drink!
TO UHURU. FAST-FORWARD TO 2014 APRIL, UHURU KENYATTA IS IN BRUSSELS!
. Welcome to the eURO Afrika Top, or officially, the EU-Afrika summit 2014.
for them. Ours should be to take no side, shake our heads and shy away.
entity. ---Hospitals where you do not pay bribes to doctors for surgery; institutions that work without kitu-kidogo. When you come from totally corrupt countries like the Ukraine, you are ready to be a slave, just to live in a political entity with a relatively transparent bureaucratic climate. But still a dictatorship!