The Future Of The USA Is Rwanda

Why looking back at this small African nation helps us to foresee what will soon occur in the world’s rapidly-collapsing former superpower

Allan Milne Lees
12 min readApr 19, 2024
Image credit: The Economist

It may seem odd to suggest that the future of the USA can be adumbrated by considering what began in Rwanda on 7th April 1994. For those with short memories, that was the day on which Hutus began slaughtering their Tutsi neighbors — people with whom they’d been living peacefully for decades. Ordinary people morphed into evil murderers, hacking their former friends, colleagues, and neighbors to death with machetes and knives. Women and children were raped before being mutilated and killed; some were burned to death in the buildings they’d hoped would provide refuge from the rampaging mob.

In many cases the killings were systematic: the Achilles tendons of victims would be severed so as to prevent them from escaping so the murderers could come back and finish them off later on when it was more convenient. This mass slaughter happened because cynical halfwit politicians believed they could benefit from stirring up hatred against Tutsis. It’s the same ploy Modi is using in India (stirring up hatred against Muslims) and the same ploy the sniveling creature Trump is using in the USA (stirring up hatred against immigrants). It was extremely…

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Allan Milne Lees

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