Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mm.

What are the belligerents, Burundi, Rwanda, and DRC, failing to understand about each other, and how do you overcome that impasse?

First and foremost, are the belligerents those countries? They're, they are neighbors-

Neighbors

... a official or a, a Burundian But what, what I, my reading of the situation is that this is a country that has about nine neighbors, if I'm not mistaken.

Um-

That's the DRC

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Well, the first is the war in Syria and the West's failure to intervene in Syria in 2013.

Um, second, uh, the, the various very, very troubling conflicts in Africa, notably in Sudan recently, but also in the DRC and elsewhere, which the West has ignored, uh, and failed to s- stop.

And then more recently in places like Gaza where the West has stood back and allowed the violence to continue.

Our failure to intervene, uh, to end the war in Ukraine, we've, we've certainly supported Ukraine, but we've not...

And there was no arrest whatsoever.

But let anyone insult President Akainde Ichilema, they will even break the law like they did over the weekend, where they send UPND thugs into the Congo against the sovereignty and independence of Congo.

You fish out someone, arrest him from the Congo and bring him over into Zambia.

Totally.

And it's the second time they did the same with Francine's.

uh capoe popularly known as why me they went into zimbabwe fished him out of zimbabwe without any orders without interpol documents without anything and brought him into zambia they are willing to break the law for anyone insulting president and anyone is out in archbishop public banda they will celebrate No matter how deep the insults are, they'll celebrate.

Here is a girl insulting half of Zambia, telling everyone to go to Congo, and she just doesn't know the history.

She doesn't know that, in fact, the Bembas came from Angola, from Kola.

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In Congo, we don't sleep.

Congolese people don't blink.

How comes? Because you have to stay up all night to protect your family.

This is how we slept in Congo.

He said, oh really? I said, yeah.

You can't even blink in Congo.

That's why the average Congolese man, like he doesn't know how to speak to a woman.

He's not used to blinking.

They had very few schools, for instance, and even fewer universities.

Like, when the Congo achieved independence from Belgium in 1960, there were 16 Congolese college graduates in a nation of 14 million people.

Also, in many of these new countries, the traditional elites had been undermined by imperialism.

Most Europeans didn't rule their African possessions directly, but rather through the proxies of local rulers.

Your teachers may have dictatorial ambitions.

But most strongmen have emerged, of course, from the military.

Joseph Mobutu seized power in the Congo, which he held from 1965 until his death in 1997.

Idi Amin was military dictator of Uganda from 1971 to 1979.

So please tell the listeners about what you might call the final chapter of Jag's life, what happened.

Yeah, so he was embroiled in a massive crisis, the Congo crisis.

In June of 1960, at like the end of the month, the Belgians finally say to the Congolese, We're allowing you to have your independence from colonialism.

And King Baudouin gets up at the ceremony and gives a very tone deaf speech as if to say, you're welcome.

You know, you're welcome that we colonized you.

You're welcome that we oppressed you.

And Patrice Lumumba, who's this firebrand politician, stands up and gives a speech of his own.

And it's clear that there's going to be a lot of tension and a lot of turmoil between Congo and Belgium from the get-go.

wasn't.

So he is flying, I guess, to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Oh.

Oh, man.