Mugabe toast?
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Looks like the army are removing his support and leaving him as a figurehead. Hopefully his demise is similar to Gaddafis but slower.
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-41992351
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Not a moment too soon if so
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One to the back of the head pronto
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@mikethesnow said in Mugabe toast?:
One to the back of the head pronto
Too quick for Bob , Gaddafis killers had the right idea
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@jegga said in Mugabe toast?:
@mikethesnow said in Mugabe toast?:
One to the back of the head pronto
Too quick for Bob , Gaddafis killers had the right idea
I have it
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Will just mean some other tyrannical despot will take over
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@booboo ie the General of the Army. It is a sad fact that there are lots of countries that simply don't do democracy.
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Great news. The end of that Marxist racist dictator.
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"Welcome to the six o'clock News. I'm your new anchor, and this is totally not a coup"
Said the nice man in camo, possessing a steely bearing.
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@tregaskis said in Mugabe toast?:
Great news. The end of that Marxist racist dictator.
The Marxist racist dictator is dead... long live the Marxist racist dictator. ..
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Mugabe toast?:
@tregaskis said in Mugabe toast?:
Great news. The end of that Marxist racist dictator.
The Marxist racist dictator is dead... long live the Marxist racist dictator. ..
No guarantees the new man will be any better
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A good friend of mine is Zimbabwean, this isn't welcome news. As much as Mugabe was a Hitlerian level douche the guy looking to replace him isn't any better. Worries for family and friends. Hard to imagine a coup being bloodless there.
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@rembrandt that's always the way though isn't in these places...you take out one dictatorship and replace with another who wants to make their mark, or if you have the West trying to 'help' them into Democracy you leave a hole for all sorts of shit.
Iraq have done well in Saddam's absence!
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I'm reading this is a clever power play by Mugabe's young wife.
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@antipodean said in Mugabe toast?:
I'm reading this is a clever power play by Mugabe's young wife.
Had me thinking of this
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@antipodean said in Mugabe toast?:
I'm reading this is a clever power play by Mugabe's young wife.
Don't know about 'clever power play' but there are certainly some parallels with Imelda Marcos here. I don't think we've seen the last of Grace.
Hell has no fury like a woman derived of her shopping. -
Mugabe has agreed to step down , not sure if he’s going into exile . If he is they should organise a stopover in South Africa for Grace to do some sightseeing.
Of a jail cell.
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@jegga More like a stopover at The Hague.
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@mokey said in Mugabe toast?:
@jegga More like a stopover at The Hague.
For Bob yes, Grace can answer her charges in South Africa first. I’m sure their prisons aren’t as comfortable as whatever The Hague has to offer.
This makes for depressing reading,
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/302845/
