It has been a busy week so far for the US administration with political warfare taking place everywhere. Trump and Musk in the White House spells trouble for the world, as they look to dominate the global agenda with America first!
This week began with the concern that the Israelis are threatening to restart the genocide, and Trump’s affinity for beachfront property in Gaza.
A diplomatic row between the world and the US
Although the crisis and genocide in Gaza is of pressing concern There is a diplomatic row brewing between the world and the US. With the Israelis and Elon Musk anchoring the United States position. The USA is making moves elsewhere that will determine the fate of most issues around the world.
There’s a meaning behind each of these stories and the focus is on South Africa because, the control of minerals is what will determine how the US is able to ‘impose its will’ of America first on the EU and China.
The question everybody is asking right now, is can or will anyone dare stand up to the United States Trump administration?
Key Takeaways
King of Jordan is told – ‘Do as you’re told or you’ll be replaced‘
Donald Trump has pressed Jordan’s King Abdullah to take in Palestinians who would be permanently displaced under the US president’s idea for the US to take over the Gaza Strip – even as the king said his country was firmly opposed to the move.
Speaking alongside the King of Jordan in the White House, Trump signaled he would not budge on his idea that involves moving the Gaza Strip’s shell-shocked residents and transforming the war-ravaged territory into what he billed a “Riviera of the Middle East”.
But as the King left the White House, suddenly his tone changed, ‘he is open to looking at the idea and working with President Trump’ after the threat of do as you’re told or you’ll be replaced during the White House.
How is Trump selling the idea of ‘ the Riviera of the middle east ‘ to the Arabs?
Trump is using a very simple strategy to sell the concept of the Riviera of the middle east to the Arabs; ‘the carrot or the stick’. The carrot – If the US takes over Gaza, there will be no more dead Palestinians and massacres in Gaza will stop. Secondly, we will rebuild the Gaza strip together and finally it is the only solution for peace in the region.
The hesitation by the Arabs is not on a moral ground, but they don’t full trust Trump or the administration; Palestinians will not be let back in to Gaza, and if they are they will be working as manual labour serving the masters the Israelis.
The stick; Do as we say or we will replace you, Significantly Saudi Arabia are onboard which means they can exert pressure from the Arab side.
Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) once famously said – ‘Blow Gaza to bits and ill rebuild it for you’ – How long has this plan been in place!
Trump and Musk in the White House
President Trump and Musk in the White House together spells trouble for so many. The Tech giants Google, Facebook and Tiktok have all been slapped into line, and now its time to the get the EU and middle east in check.
A row between the US and South Africa
Black South Africans, who make up nearly 80% of the South African population, own only 4% of the land. Elon Musk’s grandfather moved from Canada to South Africa to support the Apartheid regime in 1950s.
The Expropriation Act also led to a diplomatic row between Pretoria and US President Donald Trump. On the surface at least, the White House also appears to believe that the new laws will lead to the takeover of white-owned farms in South Africa, run mainly by the Afrikaner minority.
English and Afrikaner colonists ruled South Africa for centuries until 1994, depriving the black majority of political, economic and human rights. This culminated in one of the 20th century’s brutal segregation, known as apartheid.
Land ownership is a contentious issue in South Africa
Land ownership is a contentious issue in South Africa, with most farmland still being owned by white people three decades after the end of apartheid. Some Afrikaner farmers believe that the land reform laws under the new Expropriation Act should return the land back to the original owners.
US and South africa battle for Dr Congo
The animosity between the US and South africa has been simmering in the DR Congo, where the US & Musk are backing Rwanda and M23 militia to take over parts of Congo in order to take control over the rich minerals needed for the next 100 years.
Think Wakanda and vibranium, that’s how precious the minerals are in DR Congo.
Malema versus Musk
Meanwhile, the leader of the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, Julius Malema, who is known as a major proponent of the land reforms laws, also appears to be in Musk’s cross-hairs as part of the ongoing row.
Musk wrote on his platform X, formally Twitter, that Malema should be sanctioned and that an international arrest warrant ought to be issued against him (whilst calling for the ICC to be disbanded) for his open support of land expropriation without compensation. Malema responded to Musk’s charges by saying that he was fighting on behalf of black Africans.
Relics of apartheid today
Trump has instructed Secretary of State to enact a resettlement programme through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.”
South Africa’s foreign the ministry made a tongue in cheek statement and said that it was “ironic” that Trump’s
“The executive order makes provision for refugee status in the US for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the US from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship.”
Musk vs Congress – the new fight for lobby groups
There are growing calls for Congress to take issue with Elon Musk’s influence in the White house. If not for moral reasons, they should do it for financial ones.
Elon Musk is an unelected member of government and does not have a mandate to make on the reforms that he is doing in the office of DOGE.
Crucially for Congress, he is able to make sweeping changes to government without any checks or balances from the legislative or Judicial branches of government.
In the process he is painting Congress and mute and ineffective, if that continues, will the lobby groups move their funding to Musk away from Senators and Congressmen or women.
Trump has thrown the UK and EU into disarray
Trump has thrown the UK and EU into disarray by not consulting them in the Middle east project. Whilst Keir Starmer was still quoting the Two state solution, Trump swooped in and has taken over Gaza.
Trump has found other allies, he’s got the Techno Mafia on his side and it prepared to dominate the world with AI.
Macron is trying to create a stance for the EU by suggesting the bigger enemy is to the east in China, but Trump is going to leverage this to boost NATO spending especially from France and Germany.
Vice President Vance unequivocally threatened the EU with an ultimatum, suggesting you are either with us or against us.
Trump blocks associated press from White House Corps
Trump has blocked Associated Press from the White House Corp for refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Google, who have succumbed to Trump’s pressure immediately changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Trump’s executive order to stop USAID
Last week, Trump froze all US aid to South Africa in response to the latest developments. The decision may have been influenced by Trump’s top advisor, South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, whose Grandfather moved to South Africa and supported Apartheid.
USAID was providing aid to organisations like the BBC and Euro News in order to control the agenda on the newswires. There is a reset coming and some of these companies will lose the money but others will get it who are prepared to push the US agenda.
The US will use these funds to fund campaigns on X to pay influencers to push the American agenda. Trump and Musk already do this with minions on X, whose job is to simply post postive news about MAGA all day every day.
US to boycott G20 summit
The diplomatic standoff reached another level when US Secretary of State Rubio announced that he would skip the upcoming G20 talks of foreign ministers in Johannesburg, scheduled for February 20 and 21. Rubio accused the host government of having an anti-American agenda despite repeated assurances from Pretoria that this is not the case.
Earlier this week, the European Union offered its “full support” to South Africa ahead of the G20 meeting, with European Council chief Antonio Costa speaking to President Ramaphosa by phone directly to give further reassurances.
As a closing thought, although a lot of Muslims may perceive the middle eastern countries leaders as weak puppets, consider the implications of standing up to the Trump regime; dissolution, isolation and sanctioned. Not many countries have the might of Russia that they can withstand such pressure.
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