African Union to Join G20? Or Just a Western Pipe Dream?
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is on a three-day trip to Africa, first stop Ethiopia, where he spoke to African Union (AU) chairperson Moussa Faki, in Addis Ababa, that integrating African nations into the G20 will ensure that they “can participate and have a say,” presumably meaning in world affairs.
Scholz highlighted such topics of common interest, as fighting for security (always a non-descript bla-bla item) and “Climate Change” – what else! – the fakeness of it must be well known to Ethiopia and other East African countries, who suffer regularly from drought and famine.
Manmade, drought and famine. They know about the science of ENMOD – Environmental Modification technologies – that are sold as climate change. Simply because most people, even highly educated intellectuals cannot grasp and will not understand the level of evil western politicians have reached to attempt dominating the world without scruples and without shame. Remorseless killing is the name of the game.
On day 2, Chancellor Scholz moved on to Kenya, where he was discussing “green energy” – other climate change related nonsense, especially to an African country, where green for jungle or brown for desert is of the order. But they have no money or human resources to waste on green energy… inefficient and a sheer farce.
The AU has 55 member states – all of Africa. Quite a block of countries to be added to the G20! One wonders why? The only AU country, so far, as a member of the G20, is South Africa.
The attempt to pull Africa into the western camp, was wrapped in sweet talk, like having a seat at the G20 as a sign of “respect for the continent and its many states.” And making the AU a “central partner” of the G20, or “The African Union is an important peacemaker and our central partner in Africa. We are united in the fight for security, against climate change and hunger,” Scholz tweeted on Thursday, emphasizing the need for the AU to be “more involved” in the G20 group of nations.
And the beat of lies goes on. The fight for security and especially against hunger, knowing that much of the famine in Africa is caused by manmade weather modifications. This is not even a secret anymore.
Africa is still by far the resources-richest continent – other than Russia which is not “quite” a continent, but is being attacked for the same reason: her riches in natural resources!
The fewer people on a continent, like Africa, the easier it can be dominated and the resources exploited with little or no resistance, for a pittance.
It fits perfectly into the Great Reset which wants a future world – at completion of Agenda 2030 – of a drastically reduced population, run on a “rules-based” One World Order, by a small elite that plans to live in luxury almost endlessly with the world’s finite resources.
That’s their dream.
It is a major reason to get the AU – all 55 states – into the G20, the non-legal, non-elected and by most people of this globe not respected, association of elite interests, hammering their rules onto the rest of the world. AU membership is supposed to bolster the faltering G20 and at the same time, make western-favorable policy changes easier throughout Africa.
Another major reason is that the west recognizes with deep chagrin that Africa and the Global South is tending to become a part of the East led by China and Russia.
In fact, most of Africa, of the AU, is already integrated or in the process of being integrated into eastern, Russia-China led organizations and associations, such as the BRICS-plus (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, plus Iran) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This is practically an irreversible trend.
Earlier, Washington’s Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron called for the AU to join the club of the G20s.
Representing the European Union and the west in general, Olaf Scholz is the executioner of this plan. His agenda is crystal clear. In addition to boost the weakening G20, he wants to pull African away from China and Russia. If he hopes duping the Africans, he is a fool, as much as when he demonstrated with a smiling nod towards Biden, in early February 2022, that they are “in this” together, referring to the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
Africa has a 500-year-old history of shameless colonization by Europe – a colonial power, although officially ending in the early 1960s, neo-colonialism continues in disguise as lawless criminal monetary and financial exploitation. Africa is well-aware and happy having found an avenue to stay away from the west and to join the peaceful and constructive east.
Given this African reality, Scholz’s trip looks rather like a last-ditch effort to save the G20 from total collapse. Good riddens!
What’s next, Mr. Scholz, Madame Von der Leyen and Mr. Stoltenberg? Admitting, or rather attempting to buy the African Union into the European Union and NATO?
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.