Bidenomics Goes International: POTUS's Masterly Moves in Subsaharan African Deserve Attention

The 46th president has been working on the railroads...

Angolan oligarch Isabel dos Santos: her assets are frozen, her future uncertain.

You’ve likely never thought much about Angola, Africa’s second largest producer of oil, but the news that it left OPEC ought to get a lot more attention than it has. So, too, should the “Luanda Leaks” which details the cozy, criminal corrupting relationships with Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of the former Angolan dictator.

Angola’s departure from OPEC is also a shot across the bow to the UAE that the old style politics aren’t going to work anymore. The Gulf has an invitation to the future — but that requires paying attention and not falling for any Silicon Valley conmen.

The first African oil producer is Nigeria which will soon be embroiled in its own Wirecard scandal now that Paystack.com — acquired by Stripe! — has been exposed as the fraud that it was.

Don’t look now but Stripe and Microsoft will be turned in 2024. We can’t have some Irishmen running amok in black Africa with their Israeli handlers now.

This counterintelligence towards oligarchs will become increasingly important. What began in Ukraine and Africa — this process of de-oligarchization — will also take place in America, too, especially as people start to ask rather basic questions about the networks behind so much of Silicon Valley and New York finance.

What was up with those Stripe boys meeting with Russophile, Israeli supporting Rebekah Mercer — whose family paid the largest IRS bill in history — in a meeting facilitated by pro-Israel human trafficker Matt Michelsen? And did you know the Collison’ brother is a weird Zionist and Jewish convert? Who even knows what’s up with that!

Daniel Gross, the Israeli-American(?), who advises the Stripe brothers is all over Africa running his front. His book, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World, with the very Chisraeli Tyler Cowen of Barre Seid University George Mason should be seen as the Israeli talent spotting operation that it was.

Gross previously raided Apple with his fake company Cue. Like that other Israeli spy Antonio García Martínez who was fake because fired from Apple, Gross was quickly moved out. Did I mention that Gross also advises Sam Altman? Martínez’s baby mama is moving to France.

Joe Biden’s Administration has provided a different model of technological development than the scams of Silicon Valley’s Israeli handlers.

And yes, we are talking about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, too, which we shall turn to later.

On Independence Day Bloomberg reported that a group of investors led by commodity trader Trafigura plans to invest as much as $555 million in a railway project that will link the Angolan port of Lobito to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Lobito Corridor is America’s answer to the Belt and Road Initiative. In America we build roads for ourselves but not trains (because Big Oil has captured half of the funding of the GOP). That’s changing under Joe Biden’s presidency but probably not as quickly as it ought to.

In China they build trains for themselves but roads for everyone else. Joe’s been working on the railroads. . . while Silicon Valley has been scamming us with their Hyperloop, which incidentally just shut down. There should definitely be an investigating Joe Lonsdale and Elon Musk, who supported the hyper loop, as foreign-backed fronts. How many times does Lonsdale have to be involved in obvious scams like Ubiome before Uncle Sam investigates?

You’re not supposed to think a lot about all the weird Israeli-connected or white South Africans who have shown up in recent years to upend our politics. You’re certainly not supposed to ask if they are trying to import their apartheid thinking and way of life into our country.

The Rhodes Colossus: Caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph and railway from Cape Town to Cairo.

The British Empire tried and failed to make a continent-wide railway that was dependent on their needs rather than those of the native population. Rhodes’s controversial views certainly didn’t endear him to the Africans of his day or to the historians of ours.

If an American railroad has taught us much of anything it’s that railroads lead to hope and communication, notwithstanding the difficulties of stitching together the continent. There’s no American project without rail travel or a telegraph to knit the country together. An America which encourages African development is an America capable of a lot more than mere sloganeering and a focus on the essential resources, rather than the optics, can change the world.

The more we invest in Africa, the less the Africans will come to us as migrants and the more they’ll come to us as partners. Expect lots of the usual bad actors to try to muck it up.