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Zimbabwe awaits news on Mugabe's future
Zimbabweans are waiting to see what steps the military will take next after seizing control of the country. President Robert Mugabe is said to be under house arrest but the whereabouts of his wife Grace, who was bidding to succeed him as president, are unknown.
South African ministers have been in the capital Harare meeting the army and political parties. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional bloc will hold emergency talks on Thursday.
President Mugabe, 93, has been in control of Zimbabwe since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. But the power struggle over who might succeed him, between Mrs Mugabe and her rival former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa, has split the ruling Zanu-PF party in recent months.
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CNN: Zimbabwe: Talks underway to form transitional government, source says
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Update: 'Mugabe Must Go': Thousands in Zimbabwe Rally Against Leader
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Update 2: Zanu-PF has removed Mugabe as party leader, and he may be impeached if he does not resign the Presidency by Monday.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @06:41PM (5 children)
The mess in Iraq is because the USA lied and "regime changed" Iraq (Saddam was the USA's dog, he actually asked the US ambassador about Kuwait and the ambassador screwed up, so Saddam bit Kuwait and the USA put him down later based on lies about their ex-pet dog).
The mess in Libya is because the USA "successfully" regime changed it and replaced Gaddafi with muslim extremists.
The mess in Syria is because the USA financed the Syrian opposition and then supplied arms to the rebellion.
The USA isn't making things better in Yemen either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @09:27PM (1 child)
What's with this whataboutism? Can we just agree that all these governments are awful, to varying degrees?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:57AM
Not so if Trump decides to start Global Thermonuclear War because he happened to go full retard that day.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday November 20 2017, @01:53AM (2 children)
Unless of course, it's not. How are you making this apples to apples comparison between a country of 340 million and one of 16 million?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @04:32AM (1 child)
Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe but he didn't destroy as many OTHER countries as the USA did.
Even when you divide by 20 the USA's wrongful kills count is higher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change#Cold_War_era [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States#Covert_actions [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday November 20 2017, @03:08PM
We'll need to include Zimbabwe's interference [wikipedia.org] in the Second Congo War, particularly in providing the dominant air force in the war to the eventual victor, Joseph Kabila [wikipedia.org]. That war is thought to have killed 3 to almost 6 million people through mostly disease and starvation. With that multiplier of 20, things don't look so good for Zimbabwe anymore.
I await your next round of whataboutism.