Surviving Capitalism (Not) : US- South Africa War Games: The Pentagon’s Hidden Agenda is to Make “Africans fight Africans”

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, July 20, 2013

US- South Africa War Games: The Pentagon’s Hidden Agenda is to Make “Africans fight Africans”

Click here to access article by Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.

Referring to statements made by a South African military leader, Chossudovsky writes:

What these official statements imply is that The Republic of South Africa is slated to participate in US-NATO sponsored “humanitarian interventions” directed against other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, which have been tagged by Washington as “unstable nations”.

However, if you examine the statements made by another South African commander, I think one can arrive at another objective which we have seen obtained elsewhere by US forces, most recently, in Egypt: the cultivation of social ties between US military officers and their counterparts in the target countries.

Col. Vuka Sean Mahlasela, 44th Parachute Regiment commander, South African National Defense Force, or SANDF, said the exercise helped both forces learn to cooperate with each other and improved the relationship between U.S. and South Africa.

“Joint and multinational operations have become the norm of the day. The national defense forces play a very significant role to be able to operate with regional, international and multinational forces to test tactics and share skills and knowledge as well as to learn from each other as multinational forces,” Mahlasela said.

Of course, we can expect such social ties to be strongly reinforced with military aid and other perks of a more personal nature such as junkets to the US. This results in the integration of top military leaders of the targeted country with the US Empire which the directors of the latter can use against resistance forces within the targeted country as we see in Egypt.