How to Enlighten the World - Chapter 3

African and American policymakers have ignored the scientific and technological developments of 2 American and 3 German university labs,

beyond Elon Musk and the China-impelled debt and lithium-ion production and supply chain traps.

My Comment:?Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat the 11th grade- James W. Loewen.?

A disregard for the history, archeology and the foundational beliefs of nations has similarly led to an idolatry of wealth; of the Caudillo, the Ubermensch, - and have led to a Cult of Personality in America - with the same disastrous effects as befell the ancient autocracies of Egypt and the Aztecs in "the New World."

Today, we fail to relate the historical events of the Holy Bible.; our foundational beliefs, with current events. For example:

Beware of False Prophets

??Matthew 7:15-23

On the One Hand, we see the hypocrisy of Putin lighting candles and offering prayers in church:

and on the other, we see the same oligarch destroying Ukrainian Orthodox cathedrals:

but fail to recognize Hypocrisy in America:

Why have Americans lost faith in our institutions??

Business Insider:?The main reason, ....is that the elite foreign-policy establishment doesn't have a lot of credibility anymore. After all, this bipartisan caste of national security managers are responsible for open-ended NATO expansion, which did not make Europe a reliable "zone of peace"; mishandled the Kosovo War; failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks; either conceived, supported, or went along with the (then) invasion of Iraq; have continued to back the (then) 17-years-and-counting-quagmire in Afghanistan; bungled assorted interventions in Libya, Yemen, and Syria; repeatedly mismanaged the Middle East peace process; and have presided over an ever-expanding and apparently endless "war on terror."?

Some of these folks also approved the illegal surveillance of Americans, the torture and targeted killings of foreigners (some of them innocent civilians), and any number of other crimes or follies. The credibility of this elite was further tarnished by the 2008 financial crisis and their failure to recognize that globalization and rising inequality were leaving many people behind and were bound to provoke a powerful backlash.

My insert:

Business Insider:?To make matters worse, most members of this elite refused to hold themselves or their friends accountable for all of these failures. Instead, both Democratic liberal interventionists and Republican neoconservatives kept insisting that the United States had the right, the responsibility, and the wisdom to spread its values far and wide and that there was no alternative to their ambitious strategy of liberal hegemony. With a few notable exceptions, most of these folks have never acknowledged their past errors or shown that they've learned from their mistakes.

And when the confident belief that America's "unipolar moment" would be a new era of peace and prosperity and lead to the continued spread of liberal values had come crashing to earth by 2016, it opened the door for Donald Trump.?

Sack: Star Tribune

Helsinki; The Turning Point

The response to Trump's performance (in Helsinki), was immediate, overwhelming, and almost entirely negative. Thomas Friedman of the New York Times accused Trump of "treasonous behavior" and concluded, "Donald Trump is either an asset of Russian intelligence or really enjoys playing one on TV." Former CIA head John Brennan agreed that Trump's performance was "nothing short of treasonous," a charge echoed at length by former Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck and repeated by many others. Even normally discreet officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and my colleague Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense, were visibly appalled, with Burns calling the press conference "the single most embarrassing performance by an American president on the world stage that I've ever seen," and Carter saying, "it was like watching the destruction of a cathedral."

Global Trade: From July 2023:

It was once the case that U.S. Multinationals accounted for 40% of global trade. E-commerce and the increasing engagement of the world’s SMEs (in the then $26 trillion of annual global trade) changed the picture. Global trade is no longer the exclusive domain of multinational corporations. Another of the significant influences on the need for a changed marketing of Democracy is the need to create a more compassionate form of capitalism and Democracy, as evidenced at Our Capitol on 6 January 2021:?

Lessons Learned?

The greatest failure of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, American Education, the Media, Government and Industry involves the marketing of Democracy and Education in Global Trade. To put it kindly and in view of the changed environmental, financial and geopolitical ecosystems of the world; of trade and logistics (supply chains) the U.S. and Africa are now threatened with superficiality and impotence.?

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