Batswana led like sheep to the slaughter!
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
The President is accompanied by his sidekick Shaw Kgathi, the Minister of Defence, Justice and Security (DJS) who normally should be negotiating the deal, but has taken the back seat. I wonder, why? Could aggression be that imminent that arms deal negotiations are done by commanders-in-chief? Sweden historically played a peacekeeping role by condemning the USA for napalming the Vietnamese when Olof Palme was Premier!
Palme condemned the atrocities committed by the USA without fear or hesitation at every convenient world forum; now we have Stefan Lovren pleading no patronising by journalists, when he without a pang of conscience plunges into it in order to seal the deal at the mock press-conference-cum-negotiating-table! Why does Sweden and the rest of the imperialist world try to keep developing countries, Africa in particular, engaged in conflicts?
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