Did you see the tongue-lashing Trump delivered to Zelenskyy?? It warmed the cockles of your Eyewitness’s (cold) heart!! Ahhh…that’s how we natives were treated for centuries by the Europeans – and this was payback time!! Not that Trump’s doing this for us – God, no!! – it’s just that he’s got the same contempt for Zelenskyy!! And we shouldn’t forget it!!
For the longest while, under the veneer of liberalism that was born at the fag end of slavery, the Europeans/Americans convinced us they were the epitome of human civilization!!
Heck!! Hadn’t they freed their “African slaves” – whom they’d dragged across the Atlantic to labour for free – out of the goodness of their heart? Forget all that stuff and nonsense Eric Williams wrote about slavery being restrictive to their new economic circumstances!!
Our salvation depended on imitating them to the “T”! And boy, did we ever!! In our Parliament, it used to be all “Honourable this” or “Honourable that” – with some bowing and kowtowing to the Speaker and his mace!!
So, what do we tell our MPs when they resort to the cuss- down our Parliament has now normalised?? That they’re ahead of the declining liberal curve now represented by Trump?? What next?? Trump brandishing a dildo?? So, what’s really going on?? Your Eyewitness believes it all boils down to “Cometh the hour, cometh the leaders”!! Bob Dylan prophesied, “The times are a’ changin’” way back in 1964…but seems that now they’ve ACTUALLY changed!!
“Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call/ Don’t stand in the doorway// Don’t block up the hall/ For he that gets hurt/ Will be he who has stalled/ The battle outside raging/ Will soon shake your windows/ And rattle your walls/ For the times they are a-changin’”!!
So, what are we to expect?? Trump’s simply clearing the European deck so that he can focus on China, which isn’t only creeping up – but is actually about to leap ahead!!
Trump knows you don’t fight a war on two fronts, especially when one of the fronts – the European one with Russia – is simply the result of inertia!! Folks forget that Russia is Slavic – from the word “Slave” – and their battle is to gain acceptance by the white world – somewhat like us – but which Europe has never conceded. They’re now being treated a little more favourably vis-a-vis the Ukrainians – who’re incidentally also Slavs!! – by Trump and America, and it’s possible this might loosen up their ties with China!! A two for one by Trump, no??
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves and assume what’s good for America is good for us. The lesson for us is: if Trump could treat Zelenskyy like that, imagine how he’ll react to our leaders acting uppity!!
…on Cuba
Did you get the memo from Trump on all those Cuban doctors – who’ve been coming down to Guyana for decades, and evidently to most of the developing world? There’s an incredible 600,000 of them in an era when the developed countries can’t even train nurses – and have to poach ours!! But your Eyewitness is confused about the Yanks’ assertions that these doctors are, in essence, being “pimped” by the Cuban state.
Does our Government pay a fee to the Cuban Govt?? The doctors gotta turn in their earnings to the Cuban Govt at the end of their shift in foreign climes?? The Yanks say they’re beaten and abused –like pimps do when their girls are shorting them!!
Another angle mentioned about their “abuse” is that they’re forced to work for lower salaries than the native doctors in countries where they toil.
Now, your Eyewitness doesn’t know about other pimp countries, but, here in Guyana, the Cuban doctors earn MORE than their local colleagues – AND they get housing!!
…Venezuelan aggressions
When bullies are bullied, they turn their humiliation on bullying those weaker than themselves!! And so we see that, as Trump dropped a lash on Mad Maduro by cancelling Chevron’s licence, he’s sent a ship into the Stabroek Block.
