“Trump's thinking is fundamentally based upon a situation of past hegemony whose time is rapidly passing,” Shakespeare stressed, pointing out that while tariffs would be grossly illegal, perhaps the president-elect “thinks rules are meant for others and not for the USA.”

“Trump hopes that American industry would then revive sufficiently to produce the same products at cheaper cost. That could happen, except that the new factories will not produce large numbers of jobs (they will be near-automated),” the professor added.

“Coming in his lame-duck period, while he is also physically diminished, is symptomatic of US persistent misreading of what Africa is and what the relationship between China and Africa is,” Habiyaremye stressed.

“Russia is the main competitor in terms of security, and Angola still suffers from the trauma of past US support to its destabilization by UNITA rebels,” Habiyaremye said, recalling the 70s-80s CIA proxy war against Angola, which left up to 800,000 dead and the country in ruins.

“Without any long-term vision for cooperation, it is unlikely that Biden plans to lay any groundwork, since the US only sees Africa as a space for geopolitical confrontation. The main aim is countering China rather than building anything of their own,” Habiyaremye summed up.

"At present, experts are working on restoring the oil flow, addressing the consequences of the leak, and investigating the causes of the incident," the spokesperson said.

💬 “Biden directed me to oversee a massive surge in the military equipment that we are delivering to Ukraine,” Sullivan claimed.

💬 “There's not a straight line between those weapon systems and how it does on the battlefield. Where is the straightest line between Ukrainian performance and inputs? It’s on mobilization of manpower,” Sullivan claimed previously.

"Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter," Biden said.

"No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong," Biden said. "In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough."

"I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further," he added.