Zimbabwe's Ruined Economy Signals End for Mugabe

I think Chavez can do it Venezuela even with its huge oil wealth. Time will tell...


Venezuala's inflation is 12% and rising. GDP growth was only 8%, despite the oil price. Therefore, the wealth of the nation is already declining....


And to think, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) was once known as "the breadbasket of Africa", and was a beautiful, civilized, prosperous country. I remember doing a report on Rhodesia in junior high school in the ?'60s. Whatever happened??....


A lot of folks felt in the early 20's that Lenin's death would be the downfall of the Soviet Union for this very reason. Then there was Stalin.

Mugabe's death won't solve anything much. The same group of looters will be in charge with the same acquisitive habits, party loyalties, elitism, and army of thugs. As long as a Venezuela or a Libya or a China will bankroll them they'll be living large. Those benefactors will not feed the entire country, and so the country will starve. A smaller, loyal population will result, kept alive by government largesse and obedient by lack of an alternative.

The economy, of course, will be strictly dependent on outside sources, much like Cuba during the Soviet sugar subsidies. But it will function well enough to keep the lid on, and it doesn't seem as if any of Zimbabwe's neighbors or "benefactors" have much more than that in mind. This is a carefully cultivated political tragedy, a police state laboratory for an already-discredited anti-colonialist doctrine. A lot of people have a major stake in keeping this moribund doctrine alive, and in order to do so the people must suffer. It really doesn't look very good for Zimbabwe for a long, long time to come......


These monsters keep their subject populations broke, hungry, and disarmed (BTW, that is what's behind the UN's constant push for gun bans). They also keep the local thugs aka police and military well fed until they bankrupt the entire nation, and then they are supported afterwards with outside funds, so the local population cannot do much. And the left in Western nations idolizes these scum (just look at how the nutroots praise Mugabe, Che, Castro, et al.), so the West is politically hamstrung from doing much. That leaves nobody to take then down and out except for another thug, and the cycle of misery continues.......


What happened? Two words - Jimmy Carter. When we elect leftards to the Presidency, literally millions suffer worldwide. And yes, we really are that dominant in the world.

You think that's bad? Wait until you see the effects of a Hillary presidency in ten years.....


Yeah, right. The economy is in a shambles, but as long as Mugabe's military thugs don't feel the pain and stay loyal to him?-the perverse incentive for them is that if they overthrow him, they share the pain of the average Zimbabwean, so they are unlikely to do so?-he will remain in power unless someone manages to get close enough to him to off him?-an act that is exceedingly unlikely. I would look for him to go the way of most "modern" despots?-he will die of old age......