Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Ten Takeaways from the War

Striking.

I wish you could elaborate,even if only briefly,so one may better understand these parabolic summations

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025, 4:00 AM 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 

The war:

1. For Trump it was all about the spectacle: From a failed infantile parade to live fireworks,

1.  and the assertion of  hegemonic power.

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        For Netanyahu it was a get-out-of -jail card, and a two - decade dream for Greater Israel.

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1. For  evangelicals it was  some kind of morbid,  end -of -times failed  opportunity.

 

1. For the U.S power elite  of neocons, Ziocons, and defense contractors, it was  an opportunity to

         weaken BRICS through  a hoped for regime change in Iran, and a money making venture.

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1. To China it was a dry run  for  the forthcoming US- China conflict over Taiwan.

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1. To the world's 17th largest country, Iran, spread over 600, 000 square miles, it was  graduation day 

1. for its medium range and  hypersonic missile program 🧑‍🎓  but a counter-  intelligence failure.

  

        For Europe, an opportunity to make  up with an estranged mad cousin and rejoin the notorious "coalition of 

        the willing"-  but that fell through.

1. For India, remorse for buying partly ineffective weapons, and backing a  horse that had less stamina

1. than envisaged.

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         For the Global South, witness to  an emerging New World Order

        For  Africa, a wake-up call.

Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
Professor of History/African Studies, CCSU
Chief Editor- "Africa Update"
https://sites.ccsu.edu/afstudy/archive.html
Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries
www.vimeo.com/gloriaemeagwali
www.africahistory.net
Founding Coordinator, African Studies, CCSU

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