Only two men in Kenya have strong charisma, organizational power, financial war chest and elite ambition; one is a tactical genius but a strategic blunder, while other is a tactical blunder but a strategic genius. The next 4 years are going to be something else. #OrdersPopcorn
In early 2005 the strategic genius started nursing presidential ambition and tapped into his community's frustration when they were being hounded out of civil service, then rebelled against the Sacho patriarch.
When the tactical genius was denied the power in '07 the tactical genius wanted him to hang on till the end knowing that the golfer being a SCHOLAR was most likely going to let go when enough blood flowed in the streets since intellectuals can rarely stomach blood flowing.
What the strategic genius hadn't factored was that the tactical genius was that unlike we, sons of peasantry, sons of aristocracy like the tactical genius are trained in certain sensibilities that makes them abhor civil strife, streetfights, brutality and outright war.
Instead of the golfer bouncing, the tactical genius caved and took a COMPROMISE for which the strategic genius has never forgiven him. The tactical genius had smelt POWER and touched it but now the compromise by the tactical genius pushed him further from the corridors of power.
Around 2008 the strategic genius thought 'if the system has denied the tactical genius who is an aristocracy, the power, what about me the son of a peasant?' Having figured they'll treat him the same way he started preparing for war in the eventuality that they'll deny him power.
Around the same time the tactical genius figured the system will never give him power but he also discovered he could make money out of it. So he developed a dual personality. One side is warm, still loves people, power games and engages them at every turn, the other is cold...
.....calculating, manipulative, pragmatic and unfeeling that treats politics as theatre and as a business. So the tactical genius makes money out of politics; kind of cashing in on your hobby. His different personas takes prominence at different times in his political life.
Meanwhile starting in 2008 the strategic genius started building a political machine made up of successful peasants to take on the elite aristocracy when time comes. He sent talented peasants to school and resourced them for the fight of the century-a class war.
He also intertwined his peasant politics with the destiny of a lazy aristocratic son and that again brought him as close to power as he was in 2006. He continued to build a GODFATHER loyalty by rewarding loyal footsoldiers. He knew he'll need them when the class war started.
Meanwhile he went into unbelievable stealing to build a financial war chest that he'll need to take on the elite aristocracy. He knew it'll take massive coffers to sustain a prolly decade long war against the aristocracy. It'll be fatal to run out of cash in the middle of war.
As a rule pioneer peasants have to do the 1st generation spadework of raising the family name. He also has to be prepared to make some bones. Didn't God tell David your hands are bloody so it'll be your son to build my house? Raising family name from obscurity is bloody business.
Meanwhile the system having stopped the tactical genius twice grew hubristic, stupid and ethnosupremacist. They failed to look up ahead and realize the strategic genius had become a tentacled in-house tiger that they were riding and couldn't embark from. They panicked.
You see, if the system was smart they'd have figured out that their lazy aristocratic son was no match for the strategic genius so they'd have let the tactical genius-who can match the strategic genius pound for pound-to win & relegate the peasant to the cold as they groomed...
..someone else. You see with the strategic genius out of corridors of power they'd have had an easier time fixing him & ensured they can manage well into the future by keeping the power within the aristocracy but even within the elite they deemed others to be ethnically inferior.
So now they can't fix the peasant coz he's had 12 years to build a political machinery, a massive financial war chest & continues to make bones. The aristocracy are completely terrified; of him, of the future, of their fate. It's complete chaos & disgust. They can't believe it.
Away from the media, the strategic genius has created strong clanish kinship bonds; mixing bloodline with loyalty & opportunity. Even if the system locks him out there's a massive pool of successors out here. This is generational. It's wickedly impressive, I tell you.
Now the system is trying to co-opt the tactical genius into a tri-dynastic arrangement to stall the strategic genius. It's a travesty. Truth is they've all made bones, I honestly don't know why we find the tri-dynasty more favourable than the peasant dynasty. They are all a mess.
It's a grave mistake for the tri-dynasty to pick this fight 4yrs out coz not only does the strategic genius have a long distance DNA, as a Peasantville folk he knows it can & will get bare knuckled. We also aren't trained in the decencies & social courtesies of the aristocracy.
So now, as the masses prepare for the fight of the century, THE RUMBLE IN THE-CONCRETE-JUNGLE btwn the tri-dynasty vs the peasant dynasty; the strategic genius vs the tactical genius. It'll be fatal. It'll be visceral. It'll be raw. It'll be gutsy. It's gon be bloody, I tell ya.
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Primarily a state consists of 4 building blocks i.e. population, government, sovereignty & territory. Any entity can be deemed a state if it achieves these four systems. This, therefore, means that a state may lack any sense of homogeneity and still remain a vibrant state.
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The criminal - state, relationship is always a fluid and complicated dynamic, especially when non-state criminal actors collude with or become state actors, blurring the line between illicit and the licit, national and personal interests.
To quote CFR; Criminal organizations are inherently attracted to states or regions where there are market opportunities, oversight is limited, institutions are weak, corruption is pervasive, and rule of law is absent. Sounds familiar?..