by Eze Eluchie,
No one gave
him a chance, but he was real;
When the
odds were stacked against him, he bombastically ploughed his way through;
In the
crunch of the democratic process, he said what had to be said (no matter how
distasteful) to ensure victory at the polls.
And now,
finally, after what has proved to be the most divisive, expensive and unruly
presidential electioneering processes in the history of the United States has
ever witnessed, Mr. Donald John Trump finally emerged victorious and will be the 45th President of the United States.
No doubt,
many across the world had not expected a Trump victory. Senior government
officials in supposedly strong allies of the United States (such as Germany,
France, the United Kingdom and the European Union) had taken turns to pour
invective's on Trump in the expectation that Trump had no chance to becoming
President; Rogue rulers of diverse
states, who had become enmeshed in thwarting the very ideals for which the
United States had gained respect and admiration from peoples across the world
and clandestinely hobnobbed and received public praises from the incumbent US
establishment; Free loader States across the world who had banked on US
weapons, troops and blood for their security will now be faced with the
prospect of paying for their peace and prosperity; All will soon enough realize that a new dawn
had set in and it would no longer be business as usual - There is a new powerful kid on
the block who has indicated that he would not play ball by the old skewed
rules: Changes in the old order will be inevitable!
The American
ideal and dream had been misrepresented across the world and become confusing
to the discerning.
Such values
as Leadership, Strength of character, Certainty and Consistency for which the
US had been known were gradually replaced with Followership, Weakness of
character, Uncertainty and Inconsistency.
Perhaps in
no other part of the world was the confusion over the ‘leader of the free
world’ more pronounced as in Sub Sahara Africa. African States watched in
consternation as there was confusion in the US on the following issues: what
amounted to a Military Coup (Egypt); what amounted to a Terrorist group (the
failure to declare Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist organization); actively
partaking in the destabilization of a State in a manner that would directly
lead to the proliferation of extremist Islamist terrorism across the sub-region
(Libya); and disingenuous interference
in governance and electoral affairs of a thriving African State which
eventually led to the destruction of a once thriving economy (Nigeria).
In other
parts of the world, ‘red lines’ were ruled in the sand (use of chemical weapons
in the wars in Syria); lavish kowtows that exceeded the bounds of diplomatic
civility were extended by the supposed head of the free-world to tyrants presiding over brutal repressive regimes (Saudi Arabia); unnecessary
and extremely dangerously provocative unfriendly gestures were extended to
equally endowed countries in manners that risked global security (Russia and
China). All such acts cummulated in a more insecure world and a degradation of
the esteem in which the US had been previously held.
By electing
Donald Trump, the US electorate extinguished the worry of a continuation of the
dwindling role of and expectation from the US in global affairs and begun a
process to rehabilitate and restore the US to maximize its potentials at the
international level.
Without
doubt, healing domestic wounds after such a fractious electoral process would
take a lot of political reengineering, which is a domestic issue only for
Americans to resolve. FREEMIND is basically concerned with what happens at and
affects the international realm, with obvious concern for Sub Sahara Africa.
Welcome
back, the United States; Congratulations on your, as President-elect Donald J.
Trump calls it, 'Independence'.
