Grandstanding at the Expense of Self-disrespecting Africans: vintage Donald J Trump Sr
The “false conflict” of Theories
of “international relations”
We
all saw it on our Screens; television direct, and YouTube Transfer. The Date
was 9 July 2025, a Wednesday. There was the long oblong Table in a Room at the
White House of the Government of the United States of America (US(A)). The 47th
President of the US (POTUS), Donald J Trump Sr and his larger Entourage were
seated on one Side of the Table, and five elected ‘First Office Holder(s)’© (Executive
Heads of States) of ‘European Enclave(s)’©
‘contrived African Territorial-State(s)’© of Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal
sat on the other Side. The Trump Group was facing the Camera while the Africans
had their Backs to the Camera. It was not a proper Meeting, however. It was a
Lunch Meeting. Apparently misunderstanding it as a proper Meeting, “TJ”
in his YouTube Upload https://youtu.be/LOtTNl-4TQg?si=h-53sjYCUIciwRhb
nevertheless noticed the Incongruity of the sitting Plan and
dealt with it in the Way of seeing Trump Sr and Group as Teachers, and the
Africans as Pupils. “Africa Today” in https://youtu.be/2xjGrkw2Tic?si=s3W_fEjIHWURcGvO,
similarly taking the Meeting as the “real thing,” saw the Trump Cohort as
Employers, and the African Invitees as Jobseekers. These two African
Commentators did not qualify their Observations with theories of “international
relations.” I am not saying they must or should. What if they are not
au fait with these Theories, or if they are, have simply ignored the theoretical
Implications? You may also want to watch https://youtu.be/cqOmnzzjdew?si=jaRt3zhl7Kpp8ovP
for the reporting of the Lunch without ‘Media Opinion’© whether mainstream or
social.
I,
too, will not bore you with detailed Exploration of “international relations”
Theories other than to identify their Connections with the long oblong Table at
the White House Lunch. I have, after all, claimed that these Theories
are inadequate in “... examining the characteristics of
international politics as majority [of them] are better given to explaining
other aspects of international relations than international politics [and] further
[do not identify] explicit distinction[s] between the economic sovereignty of
the state and the political sovereignty of the state ... .” (dan Iyan,
I.P., The New
World Order 1986 to 1999: The Behaviour of the United States Within United
Nations Security Council Responses to Global Conflicts, Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen,
Google Books, 2002). Theorists of “international relations” presuppose
“a leader of the pack,” but argue it differently in misleading
themselves they do not propose the same thing. This is the Reason
for my “false conflict” in titling this Section. It is only ‘Regime Theory’
that identifies some sort of Power sharing among Territorial-States, at least,
at the time of my Work cited above, some 23 Years
ago. ‘Realism’ (Realist Theory) is actually chaotic in its
Identification of Power Relations among Territorial-States.
Gotcha (wrongfooted you)
Sucker
you, Dummies. I have never considered Donald J Trump Sr a
brilliant Mind, but I understand a particular Attribute of his. Others too,
have recognised that Attribute. We all have talked about this Attribute one Way
or another, not necessarily agreeing in Analysis, but
‘Common Thinker(s)’© have refused to pay Attention to us. Egbon Donald knows
how to use Language to (i) excite, and (ii) soothe
“White Supremacy.” So, when he said during his last presidential Campaign that
Haitians were eating Cats and Dogs, he got us where he wanted us; chasing our
Tails. Ever watched the Dog doing that? I have; many times. Quite hilarious,
and complete Waste of Energy and Time. I cannot remember if Alagba Donny got me
personally trying to grab my Tail, but he certainly did not
get me the first time he was going to become President. I kept warning everyone
about him till voting ended.
His
latest Gimmick (9 July 2025) was to compliment the spoken English
of the President of Liberia and to ask him where he learnt English. Before we
knew it, the Bandwagon of ‘regurgitative Condemnation’© was set in Motion of
Donald J Trump Sr not knowing anything about the History of the
‘Republic of Liberia’ including the Fact that English is the official Language
of that Country. Come on, who is stupid now? If
Trump did not know, none of his Advisers knew or knows, too? They won
an Election, two Elections, actually, and you delude
yourselves they did the Winning relying entirely on
the Idiots who voted for them? You ribbing me? I
did not hear what the Liberian President said and how he said
whatever he said, so I do not know what exactly Donald J Trump Sr lauded; the Accent
or the Structure or the Articulation? What
(not ‘who’) is Trump to assess the spoken English
of anyone? Is he an English Language Professor or a highly
educated Person whose Education was instructed in the English
Language? Donald J Trump Sr has very limited
English Vocabulary. Trump commended the Liberian Ruler’s English to humiliate
him, Africa and other Africans, ipso facto. Many have, correctly, identified Trump’s ‘pseudo-Praise’©
as Condescension. It was a Tactic of his Strategy
of inviting those African Rulers to that long oblong Table with him and his
Camp facing the Camera and the Africans with their Backs to the Camera. It was
the sitting Arrangement of the Master vis-á-vis the
Subjects; ‘you do not get to face the Audience, I do’. Donald J
Trump Sr was grandstanding the Superiority of
“white Supremacy” to Africans.
So, what exactly did the US-African
Countries’ Lunch Meeting of 9 July 2025 tell us?
What
we saw playing out at the long oblong Table US White House Lunch with POTUS Trump
Sr, and the African First Office Holders was the US, represented by Donald J
Trump Sr, in the Role of the “leader of the pack.” This is the US, “the Hegemon”
according to Realist Theory. For Marxism, the US is the ‘leading Core
Capitalist State’©, the ‘Major Capitalist
Exploiter State’©. The ‘pseudo-Hegemon’©,
the ‘Principal Core Capitalist Exploiter’© Trump
was laying down the Texture of his coming
Exchanges with the Africans; authoritarian, ‘self-indulgent benevolent’©
– actually ‘deceptively benevolent’© – ‘subtly threatening’©,
and patronizing. I care about the Conversations at the Table only
as they support(ed) my Power Relations Theory of ‘quid pro quo
Leverage’© (‘reciprocal Gains’©) as submitted
in dan Iyan, op.cit. The US, through POTUS
Trump, desired the Commodities of Mineral Resources from the
African Countries represented by those five. This is the Exchange
in Commerce usually known as “Demand and Supply.” These African
Countries can sell those Commodities to any Country. This is the
‘enduring transactional Feature’© in that Environment in Commerce we call
“Market Forces.”
It
is clear the US is desperate for those Commodities,
but the African States do not have to sell them to the US (Market
Forces). This ‘Need and Satisfaction Interaction’© is where even the Realist
“issue structure” Theory of Power would concede the ‘Power
Superiority’© to those five African States severally or collectively,
as the Satisfiers of US Needs. However, as the African States are
seeking technological Transfer, financial Assistance, and inward Investment
from the US, the “issue structure” theorisation would seem to no
longer apply, as there has arisen
the Instance of ‘mutual Need’©. My Power
Theory of ‘quid pro quo Leverage’ (‘reciprocal gains’) would assume Ascendancy,
as it is for this ‘mutual Need’ Occasion I created it. This
should ensure fair Terms for all Parties, as they each require
something from the other.
If
those five African ‘First Office Holders’ sitting to Lunch with the POTUS at
that long oblong Table on 9 July 2025 are any smart,
they would know it is the Realist ‘issue structure’ Power
Explanation that defined their Positions at that Table, and defines their
future Relationships with the US. They do not need to be educated
on Theories of “international relations” to appreciate their Supremacy
at the negotiating Table. ‘Theory’ per se, and inter
alia, (i) “enables the concise summary of facts into (a) ‘empirical
generalizations and (b) systems of generalizations’, (ii) provides the
predictive basis for facts, and (iii) exposes the ‘gaps’ in existing
‘knowledge’”(Goode, William J, et al, 1952). Understand now what
“Theory” means? In academic thinking, and Lexicon, ‘Theory’ is not
your ‘commonplace Imagination’© popularized by Hollywood
for Lack of Intellect to describe ‘Suggestion’, as ‘Suggestion’.
‘Theory’, in Summary, is ‘replicable Explanation
for observed Phenomena’©. All that was required of those five
Executive Heads of State of the African Countries they supposedly
represent, was/is for them to muse, to ponder. So simple,
so basic Intelligence; ‘do you need us more or do we need you
more’? Severally or collectively, these
five did not demonstrate this “rudimentary Intelligence.”
‘Denigration of own Relevance’©
Accepting
US Invitations to come to the US for Discussions on buying their Commodities
was the first Indication of the individual Inability
of those five African ‘First Office Holders’ to appreciate their Power
over the US. The five Africans disrespected their personal
Selves. I call it ‘self-disrespecting’©.
They also devalued their Countries by dumping them
in the “Shithole” of US Machination. Those five
were of ‘grave Disservice’© by Extension to most of
the African Continent, and Africans wherever these Africans are, irrespective
of their Citizenships. So imbecilic they are for exposing
me, an “African” to the Derision of “White Supremacy.” First;
unless the US was going to “pay top dollar,” there is always the Open
Market, and Sellers, notwithstanding, do not
go crawling to desperate Buyers. Such
Buyers come wooing. The US is a frantic Buyer. Second;
the Africans should not, ordinarily, have conceded the sitting
Arrangement with Trump and Group facing the World, but they with their Backs to
the World. TJ and Africa Today were
both correct in their Assessments of the “implied Message” in that sitting
Plan. It allowed Donald J Trump Sr to grandstand in ridiculing
those African ‘First Office Holders’ before the “Make America
Great Again” (MAGA) Crowd.
As,
I wrote earlier, the Africans have the Advantage.
They do not need to sell their Commodities to the US. They can go
on the Open Market or directly invite
Countries the US is paranoid about. Reversely, the
US must have those Mineral Resources with which to continue
to manufacture ‘advanced Weapons of Human Destruction’© – as
other Superpowers – to harass the World with, and to partly distribute
to the State of Israel to prosecute its Genocide
against the Palestinian People. Those invited African Countries would appear to
be the only Countries able to equip US insane
Quest to rule the World. Are those African ‘First
Office Holders’ not just so unthinking; enabling
and facilitating the
ex-Slave Master Country of their Race to
continue to lord it over their Race? When will this “self-abuse” stop? Are
those five not tired of the African being the “underdog”
when there is absolutely no Reason for the African to be such?
They are “holding all the Chips” in all
Negotiations with the US insofar as these are about
the Minerals desired by the US. The US needs, but
the Africans do not have to sell (to the US). The US needs
to buy those Minerals. It is not the same Situation as ‘the US wants to by those Minerals’.
There is a ‘semantic Difference’© between the two Expressions. The Difference
is also a ‘functional Difference’©, a practical Difference, and a psychological
Difference. From philosophical and strategic
Interpretations, severally and/or collectively, of the Lunch Meeting at that
long oblong US White House Table, it was a grievous Occasion for
the African Countries represented by those five. They sold their
Countries cheap to US Imperialism
just as their Ancestors disposed of African Peoples into ‘racial
Slavery’© of Africans, and the ‘racial Colonization’© of the African Continent not
so long ago. In an educated ‘electoral Polity’©, these five Africans
“supposedly elected” to the First Offices of their Countries should never
be returned to Office. They have not the slightest
Clue of the Power they have over the United States of America – I deliberately
wrote out the full Name of the Country for Emphasis. Those Africans are still
of, and with the ‘cognitive moribund’© of “yes, Massar.” It is the African
‘existential Preference’© of ‘accepted Inferiority’© to Occidental (‘white’)
Folks that has not changed since the African
‘racial-Slavery’, and ‘racial-Colonization’. This ‘existential Deficiency’© is pronounced
in the Persons, Africans elect to govern them, as they are their ‘representative
Reflection(s)’©.
Some further Thoughts
Notice
any obvious Similarity between the five Countries of Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania,
and Senegal whose Executive Heads of State sat at the long oblong Table with “God
Almighty” Donald J Trump Sr? They are ‘coastal Countries’.
I have been to one of them, Senegal, and I loved the Place, but it told
me again how ‘coastal Africa’ contributed to the huge
Success of the Dehumanisation of Africans by African and European
Slavers. These five coastal Countries are in ‘coastal Africa’ that enabled
and facilitated the Transportation of African Slaves to the savage
American (the Continent), and European Slave trading and ‘Slave Genocide’©
Worlds. Truly, the Leopard cannot remove its Spots. Note:
I had previously been to Badagry Island, Lagos in today’s Nigeria when I was
close to 15 Years old, but the ‘Slave House’ there could not compare to ‘‘Maison
des Esclaves’ (House of Slaves) on Gorée Island, Dakar.
Nota Bene:
in publishing my Dissertation, either the University or Google Books decided to
render in uppercase “D” the lowercase ‘d’ of my compound last Name of ‘dan
Iyan’. That is “residual cultural Imperialism” for you; all Names must
be presented in ‘white’ Folks’ more usual Tradition of capitalizing the first Letter
of the Surname notwithstanding that some Surnames are not ‘single Word
Surname(s)’©, like mine that is not really a Surname in the European
Custom of Surnames. See below the Image of the rendering of my last Name in my
Submission to the University. Ah, do not be confused at the different titling;
I submitted two titlings.
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