Thursday, 7 July 2022

Why do NATO and the EU not replicate the post- Word War11 Marshall Plan across Africa?

Both the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and the European Union (EU), have belatedly realised that strengthening democracies worldwide, is in their own best interests, if the relentless march of fascism and totalitarianism around the globe, is to be halted. Better late then never. Excellent. Cool.

So serious have they become about facing up to today's tyrannical regimes, that that they are apparently now prepared to abandon their parsimony towards struggling democracies in Africa, such as Ghana - and are thus willing to allocate resources towards that noble end: because they are aware that poverty is the bitterest enemy of democracy.

Luckily for all concerned, the yearning for freedom, is universal, and beats in the hearts of all humans, regardless of race. That makes the task of executing a digital-age equivalent, of the post-World War11 Marshall Plan, which the US used to help speed up Europe's reconstruction, a great deal easier.

The same zeal, and innovative thinking, by NATO and the EU, in the digital age, can help stop the relentless march of fascism and totalitarianism, around the globe, today - especially in Africa: where the influence of China and Russia is growing steadily.

The question is: Why do NATO and the EU not select Ghana - a unique African melting-pot society, made up of a wise and aspirational citizenry, from different ethnicities, who are mostly  united, by marriage and ties of consanguinity, in extended family clans nationwide, and are famous for their welcoming nature and peace-loving disposition - for a pilot economic transformation initiative that they can replicate across Africa, if successful?

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