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In this thought-provoking video, we explore the shocking truth about the West's relationship with Africa. For over 800 years, the West has maintained a ruthlessly extractive economic relationship with Africa, exploiting its natural resources and human capital to fuel its own growth and prosperity. From chattel slavery to neocolonialism, the West has consistently prioritized its own interests over the well-being of African nations and peoples.
We examine how this centuries-long pattern of exploitation has enabled the West to impersonate a superior civilization, and how it has maintained its grip on power despite the rise of new global players like BRICS. We also look at the ways in which the West has worked to undermine African independence and sovereignty, from regime change to economic manipulation.
But there is hope for change. As global power dynamics shift and new options emerge, African nations have the opportunity to break free from the West's stranglehold and forge their own paths to development and prosperity. Will they seize this moment, or will they continue to be held back by the West's neocolonial grip?
Watch to learn more about the West's 800-year-old secret and the future of Africa in a rapidly changing world.
you know there was a book uh George fredman the the geopolitical analyst he wrote a book in the in the early 2000s called the next 100 years uh where he tried to sort of forecast what the world might look like in the year uh 2100 he began by talking about what the world looked like in the year uh 1900 and then he goes sort of decade by decade uh how radically everything changed between say 1900 and 1930 or 1930 to 19 50 and so on and it's truly astonishing how many drastic Paradigm shifts took place Empires fell Empires Rose World Wars on and on really breathtaking Global shifts when you look at history that way it's it's it's it's hard to wrap your head around how many changes can actually take place in a relatively short amount of time basically within one person's lifetime everything can change you know in 1900 uh like he says in his book London was the center of the world there was no communism no Soviet Union there was the Ottoman Empire the austr Hungarian Empire and so on the uh the Americans mostly stayed on their side of the Atlantic and it seemed like this is how things would just be you know indefinitely but just a a short 40 years or so later everything changed England was demolished in the world war the Ottomans were gone the Soviets emerged Germany took over France on and on really radical Unthinkable changes then if you go ahead a few more decades to the 1980s again it seems like a completely different world and then on forward to the 2000s it's remarkable everything changed and when you think about that when you think about how many huge uh paradigmatic pendulum swings there have been uh that that that have taken place and that do take place and just a matter of decades it makes certain continuities even more astonishing when you're able to maintain a constant amidst the radical changes that sweep over every other element of international relations Global power relationships uh uh international relations and so on uh when you're able to actually keep something unchanged it lets you know just how important how Paramount it is that this particular status quo remains intact how important it is to those who are keeping it intact and I'm talking now about the West's relationship with Africa because the West's economic relationship with Africa has not fundamentally changed in over 800 years this is absolutely stunning if the drastic and rapid changes that can occur and have occurred within the West uh over just one or two decades if that's breathtaking well what about the fact that nothing has changed between the west and Africa in basically a millennium I mean the relationship was ruthlessly extractive 800 years ago and it's ruthlessly extractive now and you can't help but recognize that keeping things this way simply must not only be important to the west but literally it must be the most important important thing to the West it's so important to them that they have always maintained this status quo no matter what else changes in the world W they're dedicated to the subjugation and the exploitation of Africa more than they're dedicated to anything else everything else is allowed to change except for this this must never change and it's not difficult to see why I mean it's the subjugation and the exploitation of Africa that has enabled the West to impersonate a superior civilization it's like a con man you know a Drifter who tries to convince people that he's some sort of an aristocrat or a monarch or something well he needs to have some kind of a display of of a Monarch's wealth in order to be convincing and that's been the whole basis for uh what the West claims about itself being Superior the whole basis has always been that they're materially successful so okay today you have iPhones and Technology you have a high standard of living and so forth so that means that you must be better you must be more intelligent you must be more evolved you must be more civilized more advanced than the rest of us I mean look how nice their places are see how much better their stuff is well this is all Reliant upon the vicious pillage and plunder of Africa without this subjugation uh without this exploitation of Africa Europe and the West would be nothing but crude emaciated surfs barely producing enough to survive their wealth was primarily derived from theft and plunder from piracy and slavery from mass murder and crime this is just a historical reality because of the subjugation of Africa first through chatt slavery the extraction of Africa's human resources and now through the extraction of Natural Resources uh the West uh has been able to maintain this artificial unearned status as a so-called civilization keeping Africa subject subordinate suppressed and impoverished is an existential need for the West it's the only way that they can keep up the pretense of their Supremacy because again uh the pretense of their Supremacy has never been based upon any actual advancement any actual sophistication any actual moral or intellectual development it has always been based on the violent accumulation of wealth and resources upon brute power deceit and conniving and Africa the the the subjugation of Africa is the most vital necessity for keeping this Con going I mean right now the trade relationship between the west and Africa is that something like 70% of exports to Africa from the West are manufactured goods and imports from Africa are just the raw materials used to make those manufactured goods so they're taking from Africa what is needed in order to produce Goods uh that then Africa buys from the West made with their own raw materials and the West has done everything possible to try to impede Africa's ability to build its own man manufacturing base so that they could potentially use their own raw materials use their own raw minerals to produce their own Goods I mean the whole process should be done in house it should all be done in Africa that's what makes sense you know you have the materials you have the minerals you can make the products that's how it should be rather than giving your uh raw natural resources to the West uh for them to manufacture and refine and process and so on Africa could do all of those things themselves I mean the impact that would have where would that leave the west then well they know that the West knows that they're acutely aware uh of their actual total dependence upon Africa if manufactured uh if they used their own resources uh their own minerals their own materials for their own Industries well the entire economy of the West would collapse and with the collapse of their economy their whole so-called civilization would collapse Africa is the foundation upon which they built so they know this and like I said this is why no matter what else changes in the world no matter how power dynamics shift in the world uh the subjugation of Africa uh has been maintained for over 800 years there's literally nothing more this and this is why there are very powerful factions in the west that want bricks and why they fear Monger about uh Chinese investment in Africa and why America specifically is engaged in Non-Stop interference covert operations regime change uh regime infiltration projects all across the continent I mean look at uh South Africa thec either out of uh naive or corruption or naiv that devolved into corruption or out of coercion or some combination of all of these factors uh thec collaborated with neoliberal programs uh for 30 years I mean to one degree or another for the last 30 years but as Global power dynamics have been shifting uh and the creation and the ascendency of bricks has been taking place people have aspirations and more importantly uh they've started to have options and those options uh have made their aspirations actually achievable I'm talking about aspirations of political Independence aspirations of economic sovereignty aspirations of getting out from under the Yoke of the West that's actually becoming achievable now so thec uh was facing and they are facing severe criticism and opposition they were being challenged uh and they were being challenged by parties that do not accept neoliberalism neoliberal colonization and the US knew that eventually they were going to lose power eventually thec was going to uh face the consequences of capitulation and collaboration and they were going to be removed and replaced and if the US didn't do something then the replacement for thec was not going to be an obedient client because again uh South Africa has the option now not to be an obedient West I mean as long as there were no options then it wasn't that risky for uh America even if thec lost popularity no matter who replace them they would have no choice but to capitulate to neoliberalism because there was no options but there are options now so you have the United States then uh backing the so-called Democratic Alliance the da which is an an overtly neoliberal Western alligned elitist political party of colonizer collaborators so the unpopularity and the opposition to the ANC opened a space for the da to move uh into the government in the last election so now you have this so-called gnu the government of national Unity which is nothing but a neoliberalism light and a neoliberalism hardcore it's a coalition of one party that was aligned with the West thec aligned with the West out of coercion or na naivity or corruption but which could have potentially been influenced by anti-neoliberal uh popular sentiment if given a chance now they've joined together with a party that is intensely committed to colonization neoliberalism I mean they want to privatize everything they want everything to be sold off to the private sector they want to hollow out the government completely and and you need this radical neoliberal colonizer faction to be there because as the new options have emerged you've now had radical anti-neoliberal positions being uh advocated and and becoming viable I mean you're actually having calls for the nationalization of Industries rather than the uh privatization of State Enterprises Well the West can't have that so they need something like the da the Democratic Alliance uh to move in to try to avert the threat of South Africa actually becoming politically independent and economically Sovereign you know they call it the gnu but the N National it's the government of Unity it's a coalition United against the people of South Africa in my opinion in service to the interests of the elite private sector of South Africa and to the global Western private sector the da is a racist Zionist anti- bricks pro-western colonizer political party funded at least in part by the National Endowment for democracy in the United States which is nothing but a wing of CIA whose sole mission is to advance American interests so in South Africa this was a regime infiltration project that was undertaken to actually avert regime change in South Africa organic regime change because look you can nationalize the mining sector in South Africa you can you can nationalize the banking sector you can nationalize The Reserve Bank you can do all of these things and everyone knows it it's not some kind of a mystery that these types of measures would be immensely Africa these aren't measures that we don't know uh whether they're useful and beneficial or not obviously they are and tremendously so and that's precisely why these types of policies these types of subverted I mean it's absolutely ludicrous for anyone in South Africa today to Advocate neoliberal policies when we have in front of our eyes the catastrophic failure of those policies I mean nearly half the population is unemployed over half the population among the youth 75% of South Africans earn just the equivalent of $350 a month or less in fact roughly half of the population earn only $75 a month and you're still going to advocate for the policies that got you here no obviously uh if you nationalize it's it's it's better for you obviously I mean empower the government with with those abundant resources instead of letting uh foreign companies seize those profits and transfer them out of the country I mean if those revenues are going to the state then the government will have the resources they need to better address the needs of the society they can invest inmes they can provide education skills training and so on fund R&D I mean it's a no-brainer but you're scared of what the West will do they tell you that if you nationalize then there will be massive a capital flight investors will run away and so on well think about that for a second they're uh trying to scare you with consequences that they themselves will be imposing they're warning you that if you do something that is in your country's best interest they will punish you this is very different uh from telling you that the policy in and of itself is actually bad they're telling you that they will make it a bad policy because of what they will do to you if you implement it you understand these people are threatening you and then you're supposed to trust their advice the advice of these neoliberal Predators you're supposed to listen to them and trust their advice when they are blatantly telling you that they will punish you if you do something to try to make things better to try to change mean they couldn't make it more obvious their their malice they couldn't make their their malice more obvious they couldn't make it any more obvious how against your best interests they are how much they put their own private interests above the interest of their country they're openly identifying themselves to you as your enemy you understand me I mean they're not saying that nationalization doesn't work they're not saying that it isn't beneficial they're saying that they will do everything in their power to make sure it doesn't work they're saying that they will sabotage nationalization for their own sake for the sake of their own profit interest and still you let this type of people have a a a say in policy discourse well that's humiliating they hold you in contempt and they don't even hide it I'm telling you everyone knows what should be done in a country like South Africa what kind of economic policies they should they should Implement and it's the same thing that many Global South countries should do everyone knows the obvious economic benefits of these types of policy policies and everyone knows that the only reason that you don't Implement these policies is because parasitic predatory Western colonizing private sector Powers will try to punish you if you do I mean for instance the the the nationalization of key sectors in South Africa or in any other country such as mining such as energy and finance this is essential to try to break the Stranglehold uh of foreign Capital uh on your country and to ensure that the country's resources are actually used for the benefit of the people and for the benefit of the domestic economy Land Reform the question of land reform in South Africa is critical this is a critical issue there should be a comprehensive Land Reform program in South Africa that prioritizes the redistribution of land to the historically disadvantage this is basic and it's incredibly obvious and once you've boosted the state's resources through nationalization there should be a comprehensive social welfare system that provides for the basic needs of all citizens including Healthcare education and housing this is again obvious and finally the government of course needs to pursue a policy of industrialization and job creation a a policy that prioritizes the development of the domestic economy and like I said before the uh prioritizes the manufacturing of goods from their own raw materials from their own raw minerals and their resources rather than the export of those minerals to Western companies for them to use in their manufacturing honestly none of this requires any particular Brilliance to understand these aren't radical policies but they're only made to seem radical and they're treated as radical because everyone is living in fear of private sector tyrants who completely control the discourse so you're not allowed to talk about anything that isn't basically a policy genu flection to shareholders and to Western Supremacy but everyone knows that these are good policies that would help South Africa and that the only reason anyone would think uh that they might not be good for South Africa is because they know that doing a policy that's good for South Africa would uh uh prompt a hostile retaliatory response from the West well like I said that should show you what kind of a friend the West is but look uh South Africa and all the countries in Africa all the countries in the global South in fact they're in a position today to actually dictate the terms now if westerners want to pull out their Capital so say you nationalize okay if westerners want to pull out their Capital they want to withdraw their Investments okay go ahead dig around in your own lands for the minerals you need to make your stuffff and good luck to you I mean we have other investors anyway who can take your place there's other companies that we can partner with you're not the only ones so the only question really is how interested uh in boosting the economies of China the economy of Russia the economy of the gulf how much do you want to see the bricks countries surpass you economically you know bricks already accounts for more of global GDP than the G7 so if you want to pull out your Investments you pull them out go ahead you can only harm yourselves no South Africa and the Muslim world and all the uh Global South countries it's time for them to break away from this Paradigm break away from Western domination and start implementing all of those policies that they know perfectly well will benefit them whether America likes it or not I mean can you imagine if the gulf countries didn't put their oil sector under government control where would they be now but look at where they are now look at the amount of capital they have now why South Africa uh could have and should have a comparably uh massive Sovereign wealth fund there's no reason for them not to no this Millennium long system of subjugation needs to come to an end and it really doesn't matter if the road to Liberation is a little bit Rocky I'd rather be traversing a rocky road than be buried under the rubble which is where the West has kept Africa for centuries this is the richest and most important continent on the planet and the West stole your riches and they and they've been an impostor on the throne for far too long it doesn't make any sense to be afraid of someone whose power is actually dependent upon you that's that's a psychological power not an actual power they have a psychological power over you but every element of their real power is completely derived from you yourselves it's like your hand is on the tap that the hose is attached to that they use to waterboard you and all you have to do is
