Okay I am genuinely surprised at who they interviewed for this. Like seriously. Kissinger. Castro. The faction leaders. State department officials. Goddamn.
@@grantgerson2492 what are you talking about? He was as corrupt as the day is long. And was heavily involved in very i American activities. He was a piece of shit who in fact did sell out. Over and over. He sold out his position for money. Favors for money. He brokered his influence for profit. Your so far from being correct it’s actually funny.
As an Angolan let me tell you, this is the COLONIZER version of the story. Why, because APARTHEID SOUTHAFRICA only got involved in this war to keep its control over Namibia, and after they suffered a heavy defeat in Kuito Kuanavale (if you want the name of the Angolan generals who led the clash, go to the official site of the FAA, Angolan armed forces)- the white racist imperial regime of South Africa, retreated and not one year later Namibia gained its independence. However, when the remaining white soldiers got home, they created the narrative that they defeated the communists, when in truth they suffered the defeat. When the USA recognized that the MPLA had in its mind relatively opening up the economy, it was then that it has decided to give away the location of the UNITA leader. This Video, is a total lie. White imperialist felt belittled when they lost against negros. The South Africans they’re talking about here, is the regime that oppressed Mandela, that’s why Cuba got involved. Cuz, back then, Socialist countries supported each other. THIS SIDE OF THE STORY, is a white imperialist one, with no actual evidence of victory. THEH GAVE UP NAMIBIA AFTER KUITO KUANAVALE, is all you have to know about who won and who lost this battle. BIG L on this channel. White people love to manufacture lies. The president of NAMIBIA was recently in Angola and thanked Angolans for their impact in the acquiring their independence, on another note, SouthAfrican president Ramaphosa was in talks with the Angolan leader to build a monument in Angola about the house in Angola that received many BLACK SOITH AFRICAN SOLDIERS who also fought at Kuito Kuanavale, because they knew, they were also fighting against an apartheid regime, and against The expansion of the white power structure in Southern Africa.
When I was a young man I sold real estate in Northern Ohio and I had the occasion to sell a home to a young former Vietnam veteran. He was a Huey pilot in Vietnam and had been employed by the CIA as a pilot in Uganda for one of the factions. The meeting with the VA mortgage broker was memorable. Early in the process my client was asked “and what is your monthly income?”. When he answered $45,000.00 the question was repeated, “no your monthly income, not your annual.”. That’s when my customer told him that $45,000.00 was what he was paid on a monthly basis and then he explained what he was paid to risk his life flying gorilla’s into combat.
How the fuck did they fit a single let alone multiple gorillas in a Huey? I know they can probably lift the weight but I don't think they could fit in there easily or follow orders well.
By 1983 Soldier of Fortune magazine listed the number of Cubans at 50,000 troops. I was informed by a former SADF officer that the number of Cubans was very well double this figure. Add to that the modern armour and aircraft the USSR had brought into the conflict. The Cubans fought a delaying action until they could amass a better defensive position around Luanda. The South Africans simply did not have the troops and material to fight such an extensive bush war beyond it's own borders. With the sanctions and lack of visible allies, the RSA had enough trouble maintaining a presence in Namibia fighting SWAPO let alone a professional Cuban military.
That's good for the apartheid government of South Africa. They got there Ass whipped by Cuban trained Angola. That's good for colonialism oppression and self rule. With total Independence to govern Angola's affairs. Fidel Castro, is a brother of ours!
Cuba's Army was trained and professional in Ass kicking of the west. God, sent Cuba to liberate Luanda,Angola in November 11, 1975. Facts remain. Taking orders from South Africa's master America. Then America let them get spanked on the but!
I gotta say, this is pretty amazing. I expected a hard slant in favor of the U.S empire, but I found an attempted balanced and nuanced documentation with interviews from people ranging from Fidel Castro to Henry Kissinger, Neto to former CIA ops speaking frankly about lying to Congress. I was very impressed!
The mercenary dude’s face was absolutely haunting. It’s the hard understanding, but apathetic way he tilted to hint that emphasis on the word “dangerous.” War is spaz
As an Angolan let me tell you, this is the COLONIZER version of the story. Why, because APARTHEID SOUTHAFRICA only got involved in this war to keep its control over Namibia, and after they suffered a heavy defeat in Kuito Kuanavale (if you want the name of the Angolan generals who led the clash, go to the official site of the FAA, Angolan armed forces)- the white racist imperial regime of South Africa, retreated and not one year later Namibia gained its independence. However, when the remaining white soldiers got home, they created the narrative that they defeated the communists, when in truth they suffered the defeat. When the USA recognized that the MPLA had in its mind relatively opening up the economy, it was then that it has decided to give away the location of the UNITA leader. This Video, is a total lie. White imperialist felt belittled when they lost against negros. The South Africans they’re talking about here, is the regime that oppressed Mandela, that’s why Cuba got involved. Cuz, back then, Socialist countries supported each other. THIS SIDE OF THE STORY, is a white imperialist one, with no actual evidence of victory. THEH GAVE UP NAMIBIA AFTER KUITO KUANAVALE, is all you have to know about who won and who lost this battle. BIG L on this channel. White people love to manufacture lies. The president of NAMIBIA was recently in Angola and thanked Angolans for their impact in the acquiring their independence, on another note, SouthAfrican president Ramaphosa was in talks with the Angolan leader to build a monument in Angola about the house in Angola that received many BLACK SOITH AFRICAN SOLDIERS who also fought at Kuito Kuanavale, because they knew, they were also fighting against an apartheid regime, and against The expansion of the white power structure in Southern Africa.
You know that a)Savimbi was a puppet from the Apartheid regime that was only supported by them in order for SWAPO and the ANC not having a base of support and b) he was also supported (from the beginning) by China, so you can't really say that he wasn't a "communist", and c) he was a literal cannibal and an ovibundu supremacist while the MPLA at least had bigger multi-ethnic support amongst its ranks.
@@armandovaiandando6472 there is always an individual who make a name in a revolution, for SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENTS... such kind of individual can be USED by any side mostly per world history, under the banner, "nationalist movement"...
it really is tragic that nobody thought "how about we just let them vote and let them have whoever they want as their leaders and how about we just stay at home" we just can't seem to help go ourselves.
That was the initial point of the meeting in Portugal. The US and a few other NATO allies weren't fans of the possibility of any left wing governments, much less a faction fairly openly aligned to the USSR. The first half of this video to me seems the US stoking the fire to prevent even a coalition government with any left wing faction.
Good question, other relevant questions could be, Why can't people have let Iran have their democratically elected government in 1953 ? Same for Chile in 1973 ? I think you and I both know why external forces organise coups, supply weapons to anti-government forces' etc. It's all an ideological war, communism vs capitalism or the left vs the right. In American eyes, anyone who is to the left of the political spectrum is a communist. More so now than ever.
@omonil Biff Having traveled the world... all I can say is that the U.S. is definitely not good, perhaps even evil to some, but they're DEFINITELY the LESSER evil out there. Imagine a world ruled by North Korea, or USSR, or today's Russia & China. You wouldn't even be able to leave comments like this. Just think about that for a second.
Was stuck there for 6 months during the war anchored in Luanda bay working on a merchant ship, it was a lawless hell-hole. Amongst other things was mugged three times, once at gunpoint by an armed policeman backed by two heavily armed militia lol. Eventually we were flown home but was tagged again on the way to the airport, woke up with a lump on my head and again no watch, wallet or shoes. Ended up boarding the plane in my stockinged feet so first stop on arriving in London was a shoe shop.
@@NoahBodze By most dictionaries anything intended to influence opinion is propaganda. I think that's too broad. I would call this polemic, an expression of the polar views of the grayzone staff. I would call it propaganda if the grayzone were an instrument of a larger, unacknowledged, power structure. Once we might have said "aha they're Soviet assets", but that's gone. The Catholic church invented propaganda. It's the voice of power not of dissent.
That's bc Fox fried people's brains. Rupert Murdoch churned out right-wing opinion candy for the Chair Force Boomers; and called it "news", and made a pile of money from it. So CNN and MSNBC followed suit, only less right-wing (bc the Democrats ain't the left anymore).
@CRAM MARC i agree, he was alluring to people because he was charismatic and used his charm to distract people from his intentions. He was paid by the white supremacist South African apartheid government. His ideology was meaningless as soon as he became a puppet of the capitalist states. I don’t think he event had an ideology to be honest, didn’t believe a thing he said nor practice what he preached. He said good words that feel good that we’re alluring but he had an agenda that did not align. Yeah he was a total lunatic in how he executed things. He was a murderous human that eventually ended up becoming another anti-communist war lord in the sea of CIA funded war lords.
Watched this so many times as an African it brakes my Hart to see 2 entire continents (Europe and America) team up to destroy everything that makes us human till this day #NO MORE!!
My dad was from south Africa and was an artillery commander for the self propelled howitzers in the SADF war museum and old stories of him being the "Trader NPC"
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale ("...the last battle, of the war") = Cuba&Fapla vs SADF Tanks destroyed: 94 vs 3 Troop carriers destroyed: 100 vs 5 Logistical vehicles destroyed: 389 vs 1 Soldiers killed: 4 785 vs 31. ....I can really see the SADF "struggling"! The soldiers didn't loose.....the politicians just played chess with lives, that were not their own.
The SADF's objective was to defeat the MPLA's big offensive against UNITA. And that is what the operations in 1987-88 did. The Cubans and Angolans were defeated and retreated to Cuito Cuanavale. The intent was to push them back over the river and keep them on the other side of the river. The important thing to note is that there never was an actual "battle" at Cuito Cuanavale. The SADF had no interest in the town or taking the town because it was of no real value. The battle is usually claimed to have covered a period of seven months within which there were actually a series of different operations which were all successful. In the aftermath of the battle, various politicians spun the "battle" into an SADF loss due to the Tripartite Accord and due to the SAF not taking Cuito Cuanavale itself. But generally the Angolans at the time would spin any halt to SADF advances into Angola as a brilliant military victory. And the Tripartite Accord was a political decision that had nothing to do with success or failure on the battlefield by either side.
You left out the 3,000+ Unita fighters that the SADF was supposed to support. Also given this was APARTHEID South Africa, I think most of history is right to judge them poorly.
@@navajoguy8102 Basically, the South Africans pushed the "bleck" UNITA troops to the front lines while hiding in the rear of the formations. It's a very pathetic performance that highlights the moral bankruptcy of the South African regime.
@@navajoguy8102 History in the end didn't have much better to say about the Soviet Union, Castro's Cuba or the Angola of the MPLA than it did about South Africa. Today all the sides in the Angolan Civil War can generally be regarded as the bad guys. Perhaps the MPLA is the worst of all in that after decades of robbing hundreds of billions dollars in Angola, they are as firmly in power as ever.
As an Angolan let me tell you, this is the COLONIZER version of the story. Why, because APARTHEID SOUTHAFRICA only got involved in this war to keep its control over Namibia, and after they suffered a heavy defeat in Kuito Kuanavale (if you want the name of the Angolan generals who led the clash, go to the official site of the FAA, Angolan armed forces)- the white racist imperial regime of South Africa, retreated and not one year later Namibia gained its independence. However, when the remaining white soldiers got home, they created the narrative that they defeated the communists, when in truth they suffered the defeat. When the USA recognized that the MPLA had in its mind relatively opening up the economy, it was then that it has decided to give away the location of the UNITA leader. This Video, is a total lie. White imperialist felt belittled when they lost against negros. The South Africans they’re talking about here, is the regime that oppressed Mandela, that’s why Cuba got involved. Cuz, back then, Socialist countries supported each other. THIS SIDE OF THE STORY, is a white imperialist one, with no actual evidence of victory. THEH GAVE UP NAMIBIA AFTER KUITO KUANAVALE, is all you have to know about who won and who lost this battle. BIG L on this channel. White people love to manufacture lies. The president of NAMIBIA was recently in Angola and thanked Angolans for their impact in the acquiring their independence, on another note, SouthAfrican president Ramaphosa was in talks with the Angolan leader to build a monument in Angola about the house in Angola that received many BLACK SOITH AFRICAN SOLDIERS who also fought at Kuito Kuanavale, because they knew, they were also fighting against an apartheid regime, and against The expansion of the white power structure in Southern Africa.
@@shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564 you're a 🤡 Africa doesn't belong to blacks. Middle eastern people and early Europeans lived and traded in the Mediterranean for generations before subsaharans came north
Thanks very much. All over the world colonialism resulted in revolutionaries who we're attracted to ideas the imperial power didn't like, naturally. This resulted in CIA funded counter-revolutionaries, mercenaries, and death squads, and of course Vietnam.
The odd thing about Angola is that the revolution was mostly supported by a several major international oil companies (including Chevron). The oil companies were working with the revolutionaries and various communist governments against the anti-communist political forces in the United States. The view within the companies was (and is) that colonialism was an economically inefficient system of economic exploitation. Colonialism wasted huge amounts of money on infrastructure and government programs which yielded no economic benefit. It was considered much more efficient to have a narrow elite military government in power (its ideology did not matter) who would understand the value of a resource-based "partnership" in the country where the partners would promise not to interfere in any way with the internal politics of the country. Hence we reached a point in Angola where Cuban Communist troops were providing security to western oil companies exploiting the resources of the country in partnership with a government whose outlook amounted to the worst sort of imperialist cooperation.
Unita continued to receive USA aid for many years and the war only ended in 2002 after 9/11, USA decided that Savimbi (Unita leader) was a terrorist. Savimbi was very charismatic and a great war strategist but his speeches didn’t have the reconciliatory tone people were expecting, after all we were all brother fighting a pointless war. People were afraid to lose everything (including their lives) if he raised to power, yes, people knew that the Mpla was bad news but they could see (by Unita's actions throughout the war) that Savimbi had a very dark hidden agenda (many believed that deep down he was a psychopath)
@@philipjooste9075 "Good guys indeed, employing child soldiers!" Lol it was a parade... Even in US to this day you have kids dressed in uniform with plastic guns being involved with pro-military parades. GTFO with this shit.
Unfortunately, after the death of Agostinho Neto the MPLA degenerated into a revisionist and neoliberal organization. Had Neto stayed alive to govern after independence, Angola would have taken a much different path and would probably be industrialized and fairly developed today
Hello, I'm from Angola, I'm over 30 years old, until today I don't see any country developing but we have many people and billionaires. riches of the Angolan people we have as riches; rivers, seas, fish, savannas, forests, woods, before oil, percurio, feltil mountain range for cultivation, good sun, until today after the end of the war the country is flies, nothing is left for the Angolan people and who governs the country they are not real children of Angola
The Portuguese warned the Angolan time and time again “if we leave, this place will turn to hell” That being said, every country deserves to be free to make their own decisions. Angola could be the richest, most cultured country in Africa
angola was literally one of the most developed countries in africa during its first period with the MPLA, that is undeniable fact. nowadays, the MPLA has decayed a little bit, but compared to other south african countries like botswana and zimbabwe? paradise on earth. the MPLA is largely an anti-corruption party now, and hasnt been properly socialist ever since the racist-backed civil war.
There really is no "Angola". You have an MPLA elite in the capital whose function is basically to organize the efficient exploitation of the country for their own benefit. They don't see anything in nationalist terms or "Angolian" terms. They view everything outside the capital within a colonial mindset.
@@whatwhat4052 "a paradise on Earth compared to Botswana" The same Botswana that has the fastest development rate in the world? Care to exemplify how Angola is so good while having worse stats than it's neighbor?
My mother supported MPLA because MPLA is fighting South Africa as black woman it was easy decision. She passed away 5 years ago she would be happy to see the president of Angola fought against Central Africa Republic UN arms embargo. We need One Africa
For that tribalism must first come to an end. One Africa is not going to happen until all tribalistic divisions still existing are brought toan end. Then there's corruption. This were the reasons Africa was easily invaded. Clean and put your house in order otherwise the same nonsense will replay
As an Angolan let me tell you, this is the COLONIZER version of the story. Why, because APARTHEID SOUTHAFRICA only got involved in this war to keep its control over Namibia, and after they suffered a heavy defeat in Kuito Kuanavale (if you want the name of the Angolan generals who led the clash, go to the official site of the FAA, Angolan armed forces)- the white racist imperial regime of South Africa, retreated and not one year later Namibia gained its independence. However, when the remaining white soldiers got home, they created the narrative that they defeated the communists, when in truth they suffered the defeat. When the USA recognized that the MPLA had in its mind relatively opening up the economy, it was then that it has decided to give away the location of the UNITA leader. This Video, is a total lie. White imperialist felt belittled when they lost against negros. The South Africans they’re talking about here, is the regime that oppressed Mandela, that’s why Cuba got involved. Cuz, back then, Socialist countries supported each other. THIS SIDE OF THE STORY, is a white imperialist one, with no actual evidence of victory. THEH GAVE UP NAMIBIA AFTER KUITO KUANAVALE, is all you have to know about who won and who lost this battle. BIG L on this channel. White people love to manufacture lies. The president of NAMIBIA was recently in Angola and thanked Angolans for their impact in the acquiring their independence, on another note, SouthAfrican president Ramaphosa was in talks with the Angolan leader to build a monument in Angola about the house in Angola that received many BLACK SOITH AFRICAN SOLDIERS who also fought at Kuito Kuanavale, because they knew, they were also fighting against an apartheid regime, and against The expansion of the white power structure in Southern Africa.
@UC7BgtnCNOK_DhyOqteLu4xw The MPLA did the best. Angola is not only Luanda, and we have had 18 years of peace. And for that, what the MPLA has done is remarkably good. We are well positioned in geopolitical terms, we have ownership of our ressources, and we are inviting more and more socialist oriented countries from south east Asia, who are bringing their expertise to the country and improving the industrial sector, that will end our dependence on oil. NO government is perfect. And after 30 years of civil war with destroyed roads and mined fields you can’t do everything. But the MPLA made the best out of it, today’s the provinces are connected via roads and airports (all provinces), our fields are no longer mined and we’re investing in the agricultural sector. This video is a western propaganda. They’re trying to get Angola on board with liberalism since they have noticed Chinas take over in the Atlantic coast of Africa. Leave us alone. Fuck offf
Africa needs to unite and develop faster than ever. That’s the only way to prevent foreign interference. The entire continent would speak with one voice and no foreign powers can manipulate the system anymore
@@rioscordoba606 take a single broom stick and try to break it. Then take a bunch of broom sticks and try to break them as a bundle. That’ll give you your answer if you have any common sense.
@@Africa-Liberation-Army Yeah but those broom sticks been killing each others since the dawn of time. What if those broom sticks DONT want to hurdle together ? What if they share different interests and ideas and struggles ? Look at the bigger so u understand the problem with “a stick is weak but a bunch is strong”
If you mean open boarders then forget it we south africams are tired of foreing African men coming here disrespecting us like the white mand did in apartheid and thinking they can do what ever they like
As an Angolan let me tell you, this is the COLONIZER version of the story. Why, because APARTHEID SOUTHAFRICA only got involved in this war to keep its control over Namibia, and after they suffered a heavy defeat in Kuito Kuanavale (if you want the name of the Angolan generals who led the clash, go to the official site of the FAA, Angolan armed forces)- the white racist imperial regime of South Africa, retreated and not one year later Namibia gained its independence. However, when the remaining white soldiers got home, they created the narrative that they defeated the communists, when in truth they suffered the defeat. When the USA recognized that the MPLA had in its mind relatively opening up the economy, it was then that it has decided to give away the location of the UNITA leader. This Video, is a total lie. White imperialist felt belittled when they lost against negros. The South Africans they’re talking about here, is the regime that oppressed Mandela, that’s why Cuba got involved. Cuz, back then, Socialist countries supported each other. THIS SIDE OF THE STORY, is a white imperialist one, with no actual evidence of victory. THEH GAVE UP NAMIBIA AFTER KUITO KUANAVALE, is all you have to know about who won and who lost this battle. BIG L on this channel. White people love to manufacture lies. The president of NAMIBIA was recently in Angola and thanked Angolans for their impact in the acquiring their independence, on another note, SouthAfrican president Ramaphosa was in talks with the Angolan leader to build a monument in Angola about the house in Angola that received many BLACK SOITH AFRICAN SOLDIERS who also fought at Kuito Kuanavale, because they knew, they were also fighting against an apartheid regime, and against The expansion of the white power structure in Southern Africa.
@@whatwhat4052 You are quite right that I do not know much about the "modern" MPLA. What I do know is that the MPLA regime was responsible for around 200 000 political killings between 1975 and 1987 (the time period relevant to this video).
As an Angolan let me tell you, this is the COLONIZER version of the story. Why, because APARTHEID SOUTHAFRICA only got involved in this war to keep its control over Namibia, and after they suffered a heavy defeat in Kuito Kuanavale (if you want the name of the Angolan generals who led the clash, go to the official site of the FAA, Angolan armed forces)- the white racist imperial regime of South Africa, retreated and not one year later Namibia gained its independence. However, when the remaining white soldiers got home, they created the narrative that they defeated the communists, when in truth they suffered the defeat. When the USA recognized that the MPLA had in its mind relatively opening up the economy, it was then that it has decided to give away the location of the UNITA leader. This Video, is a total lie. White imperialist felt belittled when they lost against negros. The South Africans they’re talking about here, is the regime that oppressed Mandela, that’s why Cuba got involved. Cuz, back then, Socialist countries supported each other. THIS SIDE OF THE STORY, is a white imperialist one, with no actual evidence of victory. THEH GAVE UP NAMIBIA AFTER KUITO KUANAVALE, is all you have to know about who won and who lost this battle. BIG L on this channel. White people love to manufacture lies. The president of NAMIBIA was recently in Angola and thanked Angolans for their impact in the acquiring their independence, on another note, SouthAfrican president Ramaphosa was in talks with the Angolan leader to build a monument in Angola about the house in Angola that received many BLACK SOITH AFRICAN SOLDIERS who also fought at Kuito Kuanavale, because they knew, they were also fighting against an apartheid regime, and against The expansion of the white power structure in Southern Africa.
@@meocean5499 Cuito cuanavale was at best indecisive, leaning towards and anti communist victory, not saying either way which side was right or wrong, but to say it was a major defeat is wildly inaccurate
Thank you Mike, Expat currently based in Angola. The country has vast potential, vast wealth inequality, import dependent economy, MPLA is ruling for decades..
As an Angolan let me tell you, this is the COLONIZER version of the story. Why, because APARTHEID SOUTHAFRICA only got involved in this war to keep its control over Namibia, and after they suffered a heavy defeat in Kuito Kuanavale (if you want the name of the Angolan generals who led the clash, go to the official site of the FAA, Angolan armed forces)- the white racist imperial regime of South Africa, retreated and not one year later Namibia gained its independence. However, when the remaining white soldiers got home, they created the narrative that they defeated the communists, when in truth they suffered the defeat. When the USA recognized that the MPLA had in its mind relatively opening up the economy, it was then that it has decided to give away the location of the UNITA leader. This Video, is a total lie. White imperialist felt belittled when they lost against negros. The South Africans they’re talking about here, is the regime that oppressed Mandela, that’s why Cuba got involved. Cuz, back then, Socialist countries supported each other. THIS SIDE OF THE STORY, is a white imperialist one, with no actual evidence of victory. THEH GAVE UP NAMIBIA AFTER KUITO KUANAVALE, is all you have to know about who won and who lost this battle. BIG L on this channel. White people love to manufacture lies. The president of NAMIBIA was recently in Angola and thanked Angolans for their impact in the acquiring their independence, on another note, SouthAfrican president Ramaphosa was in talks with the Angolan leader to build a monument in Angola about the house in Angola that received many BLACK SOITH AFRICAN SOLDIERS who also fought at Kuito Kuanavale, because they knew, they were also fighting against an apartheid regime, and against The expansion of the white power structure in Southern Africa.
@@meocean5499 The other half of the story is that the MPLA were nothing more than a group of BANDITS who took over the country and sold it to the Chevron Oil company & others. All of the factions fighting for power in 1975-76 were bandits who aligned themselves with different groups of outsiders trying to do exactly the same thing the MPLA did. The dumb people of Angola were fed a narrative that by being poor and dying in endless wars without a purpose that they were fighting "imperialism" and somehow implementing socialism. But the MPLA created a regime which was as imperialist and exploitive of Angola has the Colonial Europeans had been. The top leaders of the MPLA filled the pockets with oil money and left the country to rot. The MPLA was always more concerned with the business of Chevron than it was about doing anything for their own country. Even today, rather than question a terrible government, people repeat narratives about events from half a century ago and in most cases long before they were even born.
@@meocean5499 he is also living in Angola, you buffoon. He has as much right to criticize the MPLA as you, if not more, as he also has an outside vision. It's killing your own country and people, by the love of God wake up!
nopes!! Angola depsite having very corrupt leaders! has kept a very good grip over its soveignty and natural resources!. This country needs to just get rid of The current generation of MPLA leaders just like all the african countries, In which the first ruling party after independence is still calling the shots like in Mozambique renamo, South Africa ANC, and Namibia SWAPO. As im pretty confident that once these parties leave power and a much younger generation takes Charge Africa can start breathing as most of those leader have war time trauma and were rebels turn into politicians. which is never a good thing.
In Luanda, you can drive through some parts of the industrial sector for more than 10 minutes straight without reading a single word in Portuguese. All boards and letterings in Chinese / broken English. Anywhere, if you see construction crews, it's with Chinese supervisors (making roads that will last a few years and then they'll do it again). Buildings it's the same (but granted, they last longer than just a couple of years, but not that long). Everywhere, you see "musseques" the size of cities, favelas filled with hundreds of thousands of people who can't find good work and so must live in squalor. The Chinese, however, have no trouble finding work, funded by the government in contracts that state that the chinese will bring their own people and only fill the occasional gaps with locals. 99,9% of Chinese have no interest in becoming locals though, they have their own schools and neighboorhoods, and buy from chinese shops, build with chinese raw materials, cutting out that part of Angolan economy and making it CCP Chinese for the duration of the work. They will take everything they got paid for and just leave, leaving bad roads & buildings behind that will need repairs soon enough, at which point they will grease the local politicians; put part of the money in the right pockets while they overprice for the shoddy work they re-do, and then carry back money home again, each time leaving the country poorer. But "nopes" lol. Some people don't even know how sold out they are, how much of angolan finances have been sequestered by the CCP. That's on them, since it's pretty damn obvious. Them, and the propaganda heavy authoritarian government which hides these things in plain sight. But the people are tired of conflict, so they just go along with it, keep their heads down and hope for the best. And since Angolans have a pretty open access to Portugal, the most resourceful of them just leave and make a better life for themselves abroad.
What is funny to see is that Angolans liberated themselves from Portugal......but only to allow MPLA to rule over the country, creating the one of the most rich political class of whole Africa, leaving the rest of the country in poverty. But this is not the first neither the last case of such madness.
They were never with Cuba and the USSR. They were always with the USA. The most important force in Angola during the civil war was the Chevron Oil company. The MPLA gave it whatever it wanted. The Cubans guarded its facilities and the Soviet Union paid the costs of the war to defend its oil production in Angola. dos Sanos (the leader of the MPLA for decades) was a great friend to American companies and the American government. The United States made him and his daughter two of the riches people in Africa.
The one thing you have to keep in mind 1883-5 Berlin Conference At the conference that was not attended by a single African . European imperialist powers agreed to divide up Africa Present day African country do not reflect the ( indigenous / tribal boundaries ) but those imposed apon them often at a point of a gun. By white European It would be like saying Denmark and Germany are a single country So there really is no Angola / like there is no Congo Africans should stop recognizing those colonial boundaries and have a conference where Africans decided Until that happens there is going to be civil wars pitting one tribe against another But when one thinks about it . That is exactly what England / France and American want to keep them decided and fighting amounts each other What better way to control them. a tactic the English used for centuries
If they can't make those borders work, that sounds like a thwm problem. Would you rather Africa be 1000 tiny countries to make everyone happy? Not like Africans invented the nation state
@@destroyerarmor2846 China and Russia are backing Ethiopia's democratically elected government while USA and the West are backing the genocidal terrorist group. It doesn't get any more black and white than that.
The producers of the documentary were somewhat famous. They made a very popular documentary in the early 1970s called "World at War". Based on World at War, they were universally known and respected among major politicians in multiple countries.
Those 3 Groups grapple for Power in Angola are Movement Popular Liberation of Angola or MPLA under Jose Neto backup by the Soviets, Cuban and East German and Front National Liberation of Angola or FNLA under Holden Roberto based in Zaire and the United Total Independence of Angola or UNITA under Leadership of Jonas Savimbi supported by the US, China and South Africa
Who Can't forget in Jonas Savimbi in 1986 on the White House with the Us President Ronald Reagan asking him in what the Us could be more helpful to UNITA on the war against the MPLA. Jonas Savimbi answer " give Stingers,i need Stingers to finish with the Cuban and Russian Mig's." Ronald Reagan Looked at the CIA director and said " Did you ear the Man,give him the Stingers he needs" This is True,and what makes that meeting and the decisions taken that day by the Us President concerning the Military Aid to UNITA an Astonishing historical decision took by Ronald Reagan. 99% of the people that follows the Angolan civil war probably don't know that UNITA was the first Armed Movement outstide the Usa to get the Stinger missiles. In 1986 the existence of that Weapon was Top Secret,what makes Ronald Reagan decision to send Stingers to UNITA an huge historical fact. Jonas Savimbi was a very Smart and Intelegent Man.
As an Angolan let me tell you, this is the COLONIZER version of the story. Why, because APARTHEID SOUTHAFRICA only got involved in this war to keep its control over Namibia, and after they suffered a heavy defeat in Kuito Kuanavale (if you want the name of the Angolan generals who led the clash, go to the official site of the FAA, Angolan armed forces)- the white racist imperial regime of South Africa, retreated and not one year later Namibia gained its independence. However, when the remaining white soldiers got home, they created the narrative that they defeated the communists, when in truth they suffered the defeat. When the USA recognized that the MPLA had in its mind relatively opening up the economy, it was then that it has decided to give away the location of the UNITA leader. This Video, is a total lie. White imperialist felt belittled when they lost against negros. The South Africans they’re talking about here, is the regime that oppressed Mandela, that’s why Cuba got involved. Cuz, back then, Socialist countries supported each other. THIS SIDE OF THE STORY, is a white imperialist one, with no actual evidence of victory. THEH GAVE UP NAMIBIA AFTER KUITO KUANAVALE, is all you have to know about who won and who lost this battle. BIG L on this channel. White people love to manufacture lies. The president of NAMIBIA was recently in Angola and thanked Angolans for their impact in the acquiring their independence, on another note, SouthAfrican president Ramaphosa was in talks with the Angolan leader to build a monument in Angola about the house in Angola that received many BLACK SOITH AFRICAN SOLDIERS who also fought at Kuito Kuanavale, because they knew, they were also fighting against an apartheid regime, and against The expansion of the white power structure in Southern Africa.
