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How did Mugabe destroy Rhodesia, turning the breadbasket of Africa into a starving hellhole wracked by hyperinflation and famine? It's a pretty simple story, as things went just how you'd expect, but it holds a good number of important lessons for America So, a 🧵👇 on this

His presidency and prime ministership saw the formerly thriving country of Rhodesia turn into the hellish Zimbabwe, so it's worth understanding how he did that, how he turned the breadbasket of Africa into a starving disaster zone It took about four steps. Four steps to turn a

First, Mugabe won in the usual way gangsters do: he demanded another "election," after Ian Smith stepped down and handed power to Muzorawa, then sent his thugs to terrorize the country and demand "votes" in exchange for not torturing the voters to death The British let the

Once Mugabe was "Prime Minister," he had to solidify his internal position That meant eliminating his rival, Soviet-backed Nkomo, and his base of support, the Ndebele tribe (Mugabe was a Shona) So, Mugabe had his thugs, the ZANU rebels from the Bush War, genocide the Ndebele.

After the US and UK turned a blind eye to his Gukurahundi, Mugabe was internally secure against his only real rival, Nkomo, whose tribe he wiped out So he turned to the remaining whites and wiped out them Step three was confiscating their guns, using the civilian disarmament

With the guns confiscated, the white farmers, the basis of Rhodesia's success as a country, as their cash crops provided the foreign exchange needed for trade, were at Mugabe's mercy So he stole their land. He confiscated their thriving farms and handed them to his supporters,

At that point, Mugabe was in total control, but he was reigning in Hell rather than serving in Heaven, as his policies destroyed the country His favorites who had received the farms couldn't farm them, so there were no cash crops to export, and thus no foreign exchange earned

The second is that "decolonization" means death. Raytheon proudly announced it was "decolonizing" its corporate bookshelf; it also can't produce new Stinger missiles. Universities have "decolonized" their classes and now graduates can't write. Zimbabwe "decolonized" its farms

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Chef Andrew Gruel Sorta like that 50 basis point reduction from the Fed yesterday. Gee whiz. Seems like they could have given people help before this, but I guess they just wanted it to be close enough to the election that it affects voting.

The Mayor of Springfield has declared himself dictator in the wake of Trump's comments criticizing immigration into the town. Note, he did not declare himself in possession of emergency powers when tens of thousands of foreigners descended on his town, wrecking cars, killing

Why is Rhodesia important? Because it was a normal Western country typical of the century prior to its destruction, one "more British than the British." In fact, that's the very reason it was destroyed 🧵👇

That turned Rhodesia into a roaring success, particularly agriculturally It produced famed tobacco for export on a large scale, and was so superb at growing grain on the large farms that it was the "Breakbasket of Africa" In fact, many of the post-1979 African famines probably

The sad fact is that Rhodesia was destroyed because it was "more British than the British" in the old sense: it was a landed voting republic where generally only those with a requisite amount of Rhodesian property, such as land, could vote There was no apartheid, as was in South

So, the world hated Rhodesia The communist bloc backed the red rebels for the usual reasons, and on the Western world helped the communists win by embargoing Rhodesia That "Great Betrayal" came despite Rhodesia having loyally served in both world wars; Ian Smith was a Spitfire

In effect, the Americans and British were siding with the communists even as those communists tortured and killed white farmers and their black laborers, as Peck documents in "Rhodesia Accuses" That support continued through to the end, even as Nkomo shot down civilian airliners

The weight of the world - only Israel, Portugal until the Carnation Revolution, and sometimes South Africa rejected UN sanctions and Western opprobrium - eventually told on Rhodesia, and it fell to the communists Particularly, in 1980, after the second election, during which

I’m sick of sharing a country with people who are delusional. (145k likes)