Zim elections: US, allies salivate for regime change Nelson Chamisa has been discrediting national policies which are beneficial to the majority

Prof Jonathan McDuff-Correspondent

This year, the southern African country of Zimbabwe holds national elections and it is fact not fiction that the United States being the master of brazen double standards is already seeking to interfere.

The US has already started dipping its fingers into the electoral to effect regime change and get rid of the Second Republic, that has for far done a splendid job to move the country forward.

Recently it sent deputy assistant secretary of State in the Bureau of African Affairs Ambassador Robert Scott to Zimbabwe and that was a starting point to fiddle with the 2023 elections.

Democracy is only democracy when it fits into the US straight jacket foreign policy; the policy that seeks to remove independent governments and replace them with its puppets, with the final deal being to get access to that country’s natural resources.

As the Zimbabwean election plays out, from the rear to the front, US is becoming more and more active in Zimbabwe’s politics.

Suffice to say, the interest generated by the candidates, especially the youths, has but, confirmed that Zanu PF is an all-people’s party, from the youths to the old.

By holding primary elections to choose candidates, Zanu PF has shown the world how democratic it is.

Zanu PF is printing 23 million ballots, for its primary elections and that proves its popularity through an avalanche of candidates from legislators to councillors and special quotas. 

The MDC which has morphed into CCC has been left with an egg on its face, after the claim that their party is for the youths, was thrown into the dustbin in spectacular, fashion. The US is equally worried about Zanu PF popularity; among the youths and they are also worried about President Mnangagwa’s surging popularity against Chamisa’s diminishing political standing.

But the politics of Zimbabwe exposes US double standards without effort.

The US preaches democracy and practices exactly the opposite. For example, Nelson Chamisa, the leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition CCC has shown the whole world that he is a dictator, who will not run a party with structures, who will not run the party with others, we will not hold primary election to select candidates; a dictator who is CCC himself and has no constitution.

But the profligacy of it all, is that the US supports him like that, simply because he is their puppet whom they think can remove Zanu PF from power. And, so Chamisa is a worthy tool, even without the basics of democracy. 

America, America, America! What then is democracy when you cannot preach it? Where are the CCC democratic credentials that makes you still fund it?

How does the US, the self-appointed world policeman who flaunts and dances in garments written democracy all over, support an animal without structure?

When it comes to China, Russia and Zimbabwe the US throws anything to get rid of the administrations in those countries.

Imagine if President Mnangagwa was running Zanu PF like Chamisa does CCC? Just imagine running Zanu PF without structures, without a constitution and indeed without others? What would America say about him. “Extend sanctions!”

Now US lets Chamisa grow into a real dictator, chest up everything, run everything; abandon constitutionalism and become the Alpha and Omega. This is making of a dictator.

But the progressive world knows fully well that Zimbabwe is suffering from illegal sanctions more for its relationship with China and Russia. First it was the land reform but the Look East Policy was the master stroke that gave US the opportunity to punish Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe has made it clear that Russia is a worthy friend.

Even in Ukraine Russia has more rights to protect its interests and the US is the main country behind the trouble in that region. The US has used countries around Russia to try and destroy Russia. 

But President Putin has remained steadfast and alert to that reality. He is equal to the task.

Like Chamisa in Zimbabwe, Zelenskyy in Ukraine is a very bad leader, a tool used to destroy his own country on behalf of the US. A useless leader, who failed to calculate the cost of peace versus the cost of war. Ukraine should never had been at war, had Zelenskyy applied his mind and not been abused by US. Now his country is becoming ruins every minute. 

At UN Zimbabwe has voted for Russia or abstained; it has never voted against Russia. Zimbabwe will never go against Russia.

The US is very angry that it has failed to dominate China and Russia in Zimbabwe. The US wants a regime that will close out China and Russia and yet China and Russia are Zimbabwe’s best friends.

Zimbabwe deserves the right to choose its friends and trading partners. Zimbabwe is not a province of the US. Zimbabwe is not a US state. It is independent. 

The US has tried to use every trick to get rid of Russia and China’s growing influence in the developing world. 

Zimbabwe has been hit my sanctions simply because it is strong country that stands for its ordinary people and chooses its friends carefully.

But Zanu PF is a great revolutionary party that has the capacity to wade off all challenges, especially from the US and its allies.

The US and its allies can salivate or drool for regime change, but with characters like Chamisa and the Joe Biden, the strategy is very poor. It serves nothing, but to expose US hypocrisy and brazen double standards. Democracy should not be the US tool to destroy other countries. Democracy should not be used to cow some countries into towing US lines. 

Democracy should not be abused to serve US interests only. Zimbabwe, Russia, China and everyone else deserve the right to chat their own courses and reach their own destinies without US interference.

The election in Zimbabwe this year will teach US and its allies that Zanu PF is not just a political party, but indeed a great revolutionary party.

Professor Jonathan McDuff is a political scientist specialising in African politics and based in Brussels, Belgium. Here, he writes in his personal capacity.

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