For you who are Zanupf
By Stanley Goreraza| A little wisdom, is a lot of wisdom. A grain of wisdom is greater than a mountain of foolishness.
Zimbabwe is an ant and the United States is an elephant, economically, militarily, technologically, populously, societally, historically and the list goes on and on.
As Zimbabwe, there is very little that we can contest in against the United States. You can never put Zimbabwe and the United States in a ring and ring the bell!
The Americans would shake their heads, laugh and walk out of the ring because it wouldn’t even be a contest.
You see if an ant shouted obscenities at an elephant and challenged it, the elephant would not even be bothered to pay attention or respond.
If there are any wise people in Zanupf, they would know that we stand to gain and profit from good relations with the Americans. They would also know that foul relations with the Americans and British are the very reason our country is troubled.
Like it or not, they are the greatest power on the face of the earth and if they choose to make your life miserable, they can easily do it and it will be hard on you.
They can put their hands around you and squeeze the life out of you and no one would be able to come to your aid. Mr Mugabe started this nonsense of unnecessary confrontation with the Americans and look where it got us!
The premier league of fools in Zanupf, still want us going round and round with eyes closed at the edge of a cliff! Mr Mugabe and Jonathan Moyo would very often spread paranoia about the Americans having designs on recolonizing us! What do we have that they cannot get elsewhere in greater abundance? Nothing.
We need the Americans. We need to tap into the vastness of their economic and technological power in our economic recovery efforts. We need access to their economy and capital.
We need a relationship with the elephant so that we can ride on its back to get where we want to go. The Americans don’t need us but we need them.
The American economy is doing great without Zimbabwe and if Zanupf relocated Zimbabwe to Mars out of fear of being recolonized, not a tear would be shed in America, not even by African Americans! It would be noticed by no one.
It’s up to President Mnangagwa. Either he listens to the fools who during the disastrous era of Mr Mugabe would rage against Britain and America on television , radio and in newspapers, and got us into an economic hell hole, or he follows wisdom and reaches a cordial understanding with the elephant for the good of the country.
Good relations, cooperation and partnership with the Americans is the only short cut to swift economic recovery.