Between Donald Trump and world peace

The U.S President Elect, Mr. Donald Trump, extreme in his views before the election has continued unabatedly in his statements and tweets on social media. He has been lashing at Arabs, Mexicans and blacks before the elections, to Palestine, China and even African leaders (couched as sit -tight leaders) after the elections.
Much as I would like a stable, prosperous, peaceful and friendly United States, a recent US president, George Bush came in with such extreme ideas ended up leaving the world a hotter hell than he met it. George Bush Jr. came in 2000.His agenda was not peace but asserting US military might. Where Bill Clinton had virtually succeeded in securing peace in the Middle East, George Bush did not make a jot of an effort for peace there until the seventh year of his presidency. Rather he had a premeditated agenda to invade Iraq despite a UN team not finding any evidence of nuclear weapons development by the Saddam Hussein government.
The neglect on concluding peace between Palestine and Israel, deadlocked by Yasser Arafat’s insistence on Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine and relentless Israeli military actions in the West Bank, later snowballed into Arab and militant support for Palestine. Militant and terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Al-Queda expressed active sympathy for Palestine. Osama Bin Laden became more vocal for the Arab cause threatening retaliations against Israel and its US ally.
Finally, George Bush’s invasion of Iraq added more fuel, as controls to Arab extremism were unplugged. I had told a professor of history and international relations, a former provost of the Nigerian Defence Academy and a current traditional ruler in 2003, that if George Bush ever invaded Iraq, there will be no more peace in that country till God knows when. Today, Iraq is so mired in blood with sectarian suicide bombings, ISIS and terrorism reigning supreme.
George Bush extended his war mongering with neglect of a true search for peace by his invasion of Afghanistan. Al-Queda under Osama Bin Laden had succeeded in bombing the US and given Bush a justifiable cause to fight terrorism. The question is if Bush had followed the path of peace, would all these extremism and terrorism had widened.
The western world has never believed the Arabs exist in a very different environmental and religious world. The hot climate in the Arab world makes it a difficult place to live.
The western world has thus wrongly meddled in the affairs of the Arabs because of crude oil, arms contract, political or other commercial gains without giving due consideration to the geo-political, religious and environmental nature of these places. Some meddling has been outright chivalry and war mongering as the invasion of Libya and Iraq, where many western nations have ended up creating situations far worse than they were. Libya is hardly controllable now with many extremist groups fighting each other. A Libyan interviewed on BBC some months ago put it succinctly thus, “We have killed one snake and created a million other snakes”. Britain and Tony Blair especially have kept trading blames and expressing regrets over Iraq.
Due to the nature of these regions, western nations should not intervene in them. Any leader, who can keep peace there, should be morally and spiritually supported. If a certain group rebels, and if with the support of the army, such a leader fails to keep security there, then so be it.
For the new US president-elect, and Black Africa especially, I do not believe Trump has the intelligence and will to help it. Black Africa especially is not in his agenda, except in the fight against terrorism which the western world knows that if not controlled will spill into their countries. Black Africa’s problem is non-industrialisation, an excess of imports, unemployment and monetary and fiscal problems. Black Africa should take its destiny in its hands, rally finance from within and start with priority consumer goods industries, followed by light engineering and later heavy engineering industries, and not the other way round. Nigeria woefully failed in that aspect when it embarked on car manufacturing and steel industries in the 70s as China did in the 50s and failed under Mao Tse Tung.
Those Nigerian industries are all still -born and unprofitable today.
Trump should not breathe fire with the only agenda of restoring U.S military superiority and lost jobs. The U.S lost these through George Bush’s actions and more economically through China’s superiority in competitive cost advantage. According to a top US economic analyst about three years ago, labour costs China to US is 1 to 40 while total production costs was 1 to 20. Japan and Europe also beat the U.S steel industry through more efficient production methods leading to closure of U.S steel companies and loss of jobs. Trump should look inwards to solve U.S problems economically, socially and militarily.
On Africa and its leadership, Trump should also realise that there are underlying problems, which must be solved. Some of these problems started during the colonial era. Air borne operations to pick, behead or lock up African leaders, may end up creating more monsters than it intended. Congo is such a problem today. Democracy should be encouraged, not with hidden intents to exploit these countries. Pure hearted developmental aids should be offered. Trump should realise that his approach should be that of peace, not war.