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@realJudebela Can't wait

As Nigeria counts down to 2027, my team and I have spent the last five months building something big. It’s called Power and Plunder — a series that takes you through the entire history of Nigeria’s leadership. From Tafawa Balewa in 1960 to the current administration, we’re doing deep dives on every single leader who has occupied that office. How they governed. What they built. What they destroyed. And how, for better or worse, each one shaped the course of this country. First episode drops Wednesday, May 6th. Watch this space.

History has been systematically sabotaged and distorted to repackage revolutionary movements as nothing more than a collection of violent protests organized by mindless mobs and angry youths. This narrative is a calculated deception as most successful revolutionary movements are organized by intellectuals who are deeply grounded in philosophy, strategic organization, and political theory. This lie and distortion of history has brainwashed youths across the Global South who are currently fighting institutional corruption and state-sponsored brutality. Because of this fake Hollywood revolutionary narrative, these youths under the delusion that all they have to do is come out en masse, set fire across the highways, occupy embassies, block international trade routes, and paralyze the airports. They believe that the end goal is simply to invade the presidential palaces that house the officials causing their suffering and uproot them. These always ends in disastrous failures because a revolutionary movement not backed by a rigid ideology usually ends in one of three ways: Collapse, Capture, or Chaos. Let's look at some of these movements to understand why this is the case. In the case of the EndSARS movement in Nigeria aimed at combating bad governance and police brutality. Even though SARS was technically "disbanded," it was quickly replaced by SWAT. The Nigerian government simply renamed the beast. Most of the judicial panels' recommendations were tossed into the trash, and police brutality remains a systemic plague in Nigeria today. Sometimes it gets even worse. When a government is successfully toppled without a plan, the country descends into a nightmare. Look at the 2019 Sudanese Revolution. The goal was to remove Omar al-Bashir and establish civilian rule. Shortly after removing the man they claimed was their only problem, Sudan collapsed into a bloody civil war. Now, 17 million Sudanese have been uprooted from their homes and reduced to refugees at the mercy of foreign NGOs, while the capital city of Khartoum has been effectively wiped off the map. A revolution is not a street party, it is a very serious business. In Political Theory, "Power" is a physical quantity. When you remove that power, it creates a vacuum. That vacuum MUST be filled for the state to function. Because these movements are usually composed of angry youths with clashing grievances, some want cheaper fuel, some want good roads, some are victims of police brutality, others want ethnic secession, and others are just desperate for jobs. These people are prepared to crush their oppressors, but they have zero idea of what to do the moment the government house falls. This is exactly where the movement is hijacked by the military or foreign interests who were far more prepared for the "Day After" than the protesters were. Even the Haitian Revolution has been sanitized too. Western history books and films love to showcase it as a chaotic collection of slaves grabbing pitchforks and rifles to attack their masters. This is obviously a lie. The most prominent figure, Toussaint Louverture, was an intellectual who had mastered a wide body of literature. He was a strategist and a writer. During the wars, he didn't just fire guns. He issued sophisticated proclamations, managed complex diplomatic relations with Britain, Spain, and France simultaneously, and drafted the Constitution of 1801. This constitution was an intellectual landmark: it was the first in the world to abolish slavery and insist on racial equality. A revolution is 10 percent shouting in the streets and 90 percent administration. Louverture, of course, understood this. Even while the war raged, he was obsessed with the economy. He knew that if the sugar mills stopped and trade died, the new nation would starve and be re-conquered. He was planning for a state, not just a rebellion. Let's also look at the leaders of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions. Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong were philosophers and political theorists before they were commanders. Long before the first shot was fired, these men had already written 500-page manifestoes, rigorous economic blueprints, and detailed manuals on social organization. They knew exactly how to run a country before they took it. That is why when their wars ended, they did not descend into a power vacuum and Civil Wars or allow their movements to be hijacked. They already had the new system designed and in their hands. All they had to do was plug it in the moment the old system crumbled. The message is clear. If you are going to challenge a system, you must be more organized and more intellectually grounded than the system you are trying to destroy. Street protests are nothing but theater if they are not backed by a blueprint for governance. If you have not written the new laws, designed the new economy, and selected the new administrators before you burn down the old palace, you are simply creating a vacancy for a more organized oppressor to move in. If you do not have a plan for the day after the revolution, then you are not a revolutionary. You are just a victim waiting for a new master.

@agent_of_change Ill-fated it indeed shall be

The US regime has expanded sanctions on Cuba, authorising penalties against foreign companies and financial institutions that do business with the island. Needless to say, this is an illegal act of aggression with no legal justification whatsoever; yet another desperate and ill-fated attempt by this rogue state to force the Cuban people into submission.

@Chetuyachinago Spot on!

China has ordered its refineries to ignore US sanctions and continue buying oil from Iran, and Washington cannot do anything about this. This is because the United States can impose sweeping, aggressive sanctions on Russia but cannot do the same to China without risking a global economic collapse. The reason for this lies in how the economies of Russia and China are structured. Russia was part of the old Soviet bloc, which was a purely communist state that focused on the welfare of its citizens. They developed a highly technical education system that has no equal even today; they also focused on defense and only necessary consumer goods. Their interests were not in producing sex toys and luxury goods to satisfy the lust of humanity for profit; they channeled their resources into what actually mattered to their people. Even though the Soviet Union has collapsed and Russia is effectively not a communist state, this ideological purity still exists in its economy. Russia's economy is heavily concentrated in commodities, primarily oil, natural gas, wheat, and fertilizer. While Russia is a crucial supplier of these raw materials, it is not deeply integrated into the complex manufacturing supply chains that produce Western consumer goods and technology. When the US and its allies sanctioned Russia, the primary fallout was a spike in global energy and food prices. It was painful for the West, particularly Europe, but it was survivable. Sanctioning China, on the other hand, would not just raise prices. It would physically halt the production of modern society. If the US blocked trade with China, the shelves of American retailers would empty, pharmaceutical supplies would dry up, and the production of electronics, automobiles, and medical equipment would effectively grind to a halt. This is because even though China is a socialist state, it realized long ago that ideological purity alone is not enough to fight Western imperialism. Under Deng Xiaoping, China initiated economic reforms that created state-sponsored capitalism. They maintained authoritarian, communist political control at the top, but unleashed capitalist market forces at the bottom. China leveraged its massive population to offer Western corporations an irresistible deal: incredibly cheap, highly disciplined labor. Driven by the desire to maximize profit margins, American and European companies rushed to offshore their manufacturing to China. In doing so, the West willingly handed over its industrial base and manufacturing capacity to Beijing. This investment paid off for China because today, if we exclude rent, healthcare, and groceries, and look strictly at physical, manufactured consumer goods (the things you buy at big-box retailers like Walmart, Target, Best Buy, or online), you find that about 90% of all consumer goods in the West and America are made in China. This number reflects China's economic dominance in the West. So as you can see, in the aspect of consumer goods, China has made sure that sanctioning them would lead to a collapse of the global economy as we know it today. Also, Silicon Valley fell into the trap of financialization. They believed that owning the intellectual property and the brand logo was the ultimate form of power. They treated physical manufacturing as a low-status, dirty job meant for the developing world. China gladly accepted the role of the global sweatshop, knowing that whoever controls the assembly lines eventually controls the industry. Today, Silicon Valley cannot build an iPhone, a Tesla, or an AI data center without Chinese components, Chinese batteries, or Chinese refined metals. Apple is the most valuable company on the planet, but it is deeply compromised. It relies on China for roughly 1/5 of its global revenue and almost its entire manufacturing base. Tesla requires the hyper-efficiency of its Shanghai Gigafactory to maintain its global production numbers. So to effectively sanction China, the whole of Silicon Valley would basically have to move its industrial base out of China, which is practically impossible. But even if this were to happen, it would still be insufficient. This is because modern chips and technology depend on critical rare earth minerals. These materials are required for everything from electric vehicle batteries to advanced fighter jets, and China has effectively cornered this market with a 99% market share. By monopolizing the processing of these minerals, China ensured that even if Western companies try to build factories elsewhere, they still have to buy their raw materials from Chinese suppliers. This was why when Trump went into the boxing cage to fight a trade war with China, it backfired badly when China decided to impose export restrictions on rare earth minerals to the US, and this effectively forced Washington to drop all tariffs. So sanctioning China is difficult because even if the US wants to go back to the drawing board and try to begin manufacturing these rare earth minerals, it would take decades and may not ever happen. There is also the reality of environmental and regulatory paralysis. The chemical processing of rare earth minerals is incredibly toxic and environmentally destructive. Western nations have spent decades passing strict environmental laws that make domestic refinement nearly impossible. The American public wants green energy, but no American town wants a radioactive rare-earth refinery built in its zip code. Finally, understand that Western capitalism is structurally incapable of the necessary sacrifice. Rebuilding these supply chains requires decades of massive capital investment and guaranteed financial losses. Wall Street investors will never tolerate twenty years of unprofitability just to secure a national supply chain. They demand high returns immediately. The US government cannot force private corporations to absorb billions in losses, whereas the Chinese state can and does. As the world transitions into the next industrial revolution of green energy, advanced AI, and quantum computing, the US remains trapped in a paradigm where it can design the software but must beg Beijing for the hardware. China does not need to fire a single missile to defeat American imperialism or enforce its will. They only need to tighten their grip on the supply chains they spent forty years quietly building. By the time the United States finishes drafting its sanctions, it will realize that you cannot sanction the very nation that holds the physical blueprint to your own survival. China has successfully engineered a reality where fighting them is economic suicide, virtually guaranteeing their chance to overtake the US and reshape the global order.

@upholdreality Viva Cuba! Down with Yankee imperialism!

Cuba President Diaz-Canel: "The US government is a fascist government. Let no one expect surrender in Cuba -- here there will be neither surprise nor defeat." 🇨🇺

@proton0k @richimedhurst 💯

@richimedhurst The U.S. isn’t an empire because of their military. The U.S. is an empire because of their financial system they built post WW2. You are overstating the capabilities of the U.S. military. They are a maritime power that is in decline.

"This is why military defeat and economic defeat are not the same thing. As long as Iran, and the Global South, continue fighting the US on their own soil they will never defeat the Pirate State. The entire US military doctrine is built on the pillar of never fighting wars at home, in order to shield their population and industrial base. It is the same logic behind moving the energy corridor. They are relocating the planet’s capital of oil and gas to the Western Hemisphere for the exact same reason they fight their wars in the Middle East: to keep the engine of the empire shielded between two oceans. Humiliating the US thousands of kilometres away from their industrial base has been done before — in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now in Iran — yet the Empire lives to pirate another day. As long as Wall Street feel they are untouchable — US imperialism will persist." richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/how-the-us-p…

@7amesdrake @richimedhurst Lol

@richimedhurst Iran should send a shipping container full of Shahed drones to US docklands and launch them covertly to do damage on the US mainland then 🤷🏽‍♂️

@Mayoveli Lol

“Bugged projects. They should be swept clean before use”😂 🤡🤡🤡

@Big_Mck That he thought it okay to team-up with Atiku (not once but twice - the first time as running mate) goes to show the grain. Any of you who supported Obi thinking he offered any real ideological choice to the rest of the so-called opposition figures were at best being naive

🇳🇬 Follow ideologies, not politicians. Nigerians struggle with this principle, and that’s the reason for the inconsistencies you are witnessing today. When a man who told you he was out to dismantle the structure of criminality suddenly decided to join forces with the same structure of criminality, you should not have encouraged him. Because a rational person should have known that what’s happening now was going to be the only outcome. You cannot join structure of criminality and expect otherwise. I don’t know what you were expecting when you teamed up with Atiku. 🤷🏾‍♂️ I warned about this. Evidence choke. Peep the date of this tweet.

Taken from: "The War in Sudan Explained - Gold and Oil. Imperialism, Israel & the UAE." (youtube.com/watch?v=U-SExI…) Imperialism's ultimate tactic is 'divide and rule'. The narratives of the imperialist media is to deflect blame off the economic mode towards the victims of imperialism. If imperialist states bomb a country and plunder their wealth, the people will naturally follow the trail of stolen wealth back to the imperialist cores. To blame migrants who come to these countries for the problems created by imperialism is blaming the symptoms and not the actual causes. #socialism #imperialism #communism #iran

@Urchilla01 Spoken like a true obidiot

If Peter Obi decides to leave ADC today, I won't even ask him why. I will simply pick up my bag and walk beside him! That's how much I trust the man! And I'm not talking of blind trust here. I'm talking of trust earned through years of consistency, unwavering integrity, unshakeable principles, and a deep commitment to a better Nigeria, which he has shown in very many selfless ways through his actions and inactions. There is no other politician in Nigeria who has earned this trust from me. NONE. So if Peter Obi decides today that the ADC does not align with the principles that he believes will bring about a shift from the systems that have kept Nigeria bound to date, I will, without a single doubt, get up, pick up my bag and his, and walk away right by his side!

@Chetuyachinago Fair points. I'd even say WWII low-key began with the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine

Yes correct. But understand that the US attacked Iran February 28th. Let's say this blockade prolongs and lasts a year, if Iran attacked the US warships and it escalated to US/NATO carpet bombing/Invasion, that would effectively mark the start of World War 3. Historians would then write the start of World War 3 as Feb 28th. Before the war began it was basically a series of small invasions as we are witnessing today from the US. I hope that you understand my point now.

While it is true that the US naval blockade on Iran is illegal and can be regarded as an act of War under International Law, Iran is doing the right thing by showing maximum restraint. They are absorbing the pain of the blockade instead of retaliating. Even though Iran has enough missiles and swarm attack boats to break the blockade, the problem is that they would have to strike first. Striking first will automatically reverse their roles from being the "victim" to being an active "aggressor." Remember that World War 2 started as a result of the US and Europe imposing a Naval blockade on Japan for Invading China. As Japan could no longer import Oil and having calculated that their reserves would only last a maximum of a year before their entire military and industry effectively ground to a halt, they chose war. In doing so they attacked the US Pearl Harbor which effectively spelled the beginning of World War 2. For a preemptive strike to work for Iran, they must make sure that it is "decapitating." Which is what Japan failed to do. Iran would have to sink multiple U.S. carriers and neutralize regional airbases simultaneously. As US warships are fully kitted with Aegis Defense systems, they would have to launch a swarm attack of Missiles to overwhelm this defensive setup. If Iran strikes with one or two missiles without breaking America's ability to project power in the Persian Gulf, Iran will have triggered a "total war" without actually degrading the U.S. ability to retaliate. So, even though it is true that Washington started the whole reckless campaign in the Persian Gulf, a first strike would solve all of Washington's problems and give the US and NATO allies the diplomatic cover they crave to launch a full scale missile storm in the skies of Tehran. Iran has already calculated the possibility of a US blockade on their ports and they are bypassing it using shadow fleets. They are using ship-to-ship transfers, ghost tankers, and relying on terrestrial pipelines to ports outside the immediate blockade zone such as those in the Gulf of Oman. What Iran needs right now is time, not war. Every day they don't strike is another day they can potentially finalize a deterrent that would make a U.S. blockade irrelevant. This is a regime that has survived American Imperialism for 45 years and counting. There is no need to rush things. Right now they need to be patient and calculated. The threat of not attacking is actually bigger than the attack itself.

@s_m_marandi If only the organizational capacity existed in these countries to pull that off

If Venezuelan, Libyan, or Nigerian oil workers go on strike now and halt production for a couple of weeks, imagine the enormous concessions they could get from Trump and Western oil companies. The Trump regime would fall on its knees.

@Jab38662Kooky @Zoma3mk @MattHunterMCR Fuck outta here you Nazi pig

@pambanisha @Zoma3mk @MattHunterMCR Shut fuck up nigga

Algerian guerillas blowing up a French train during the Algerian war

Here is the complete architecture of how you keep a poor country poor while convincing its educated class that this is their own fault: Step one: During colonialism, extract capital, destroy domestic industry, structure the economy around export of raw materials. Step two: Grant formal independence while maintaining the economic structure, the debt obligations, the currency arrangements, and the trade relationships established under colonialism. Step three: When the economy underperforms, as it must, being structurally designed for extraction, not development, offer loans conditional on policies that deepen the existing structure. Step four: Train the country's economists in Western universities where the theories taught do not acknowledge steps one through three as economically relevant. Step five: Staff international institutions and domestic finance ministries with these economists. Step six: When the policies fail, attribute failure to cultural factors, corruption, and weak institutions. Step seven: Publish a report with recommendations. Step eight: Return to step three. The machine runs on its own now. The colonial administrator retired. The indebted finance minister presenting his structural adjustment plan to the IMF board doesn't think of himself as administering colonialism. He has a PhD from LSE. He genuinely believes the model. This is not a conspiracy. It is an education system.

@fundzoflagos010 @ChuksEricE @Sunnybo43619988 It matters who the messenger is, especially when you are dealing with someone that has played a pivotal role in nurturing the rotten political order that prevails in Nigeria today. Besides, for Obasanjo, this is only an ego trip: "I better pass them"

@pambanisha @ChuksEricE @Sunnybo43619988 So, what does that have to do with the current evil, we are battling that has destroyed and is continuing to destroy everything built painstakingly over the years...

“𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. Look at the way we handled ECOWAS, something that took us 50 years to build, over night, mishandled it and have virtually destrøyed it" -Former President Olusegun Obasanjo

@Mayoveli The ignorance here is very telling

They blockaded Cuba’s economy into a coma, kidnapped the Venezuelan president and had the leadership that survived him sign off the country’s oil, and then they relocated its gold to the U.S., because, of course, Venezuelans are supposedly too stupid to keep their own gold. They even flippantly joked about annexing Canada and told the Colombian president to watch his mouth when he was trying to talk about their harsh actions. And don’t even get me started on history, you couldn’t name a single Latin American country the U.S. hasn’t fucked. Much of the internal violence in many of these countries has been a reaction to, or direct aftermath of, imperialism. This is how the U.S. has treated its neighbors, yet some delusional Nigerian supporters of U.S. imperialism still think Russia is the worse neighbor.