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Interestingly, a month ago I was assisting a member of the Trump admin meet major investors on the continent. I’d say the administration has a very different view from yours, and not only sees the US as having abandoned foreign policy for the past two decades (with the exception of Iraq and Afghanistan), but more importantly ceded a lot of ground to other great powers - primarily China.

But then again - what do they know? FR is always right, and there’s no strategic purpose there. Nothing but huts and dung and cattle reared by pot-bellied children. Even the posts I made a week ago (where I put a pic of a sub-city that popped up in Nairobi in less than ten years, or data speeds in those huts being faster than the US) are misguided. And China coming to take all the minerals, and establish significant political and logistical (read: military) links is all a lie.

I am humbled to live at an age where I can see the ills that affected the Roman Empire happen in real time before my eyes. Hopefully there are more in positions of power that are awake, and based on the meetings last month I am SO GLAD that the Trump Administration is mostly manned by rational business and security minded individuals that understand the folly of standing there and doing nothing.

In the same way people can sleep soundly in their beds because brave Americans with rifles keep them safe, people can similarly possess geopolitical ideas of folly and hubris because smart men and women run the country. May God bless those smart men and women, for when the last ones go the nation will inevitably fall.