THE RUTO-RAILA RAPPROCHEMENT

Image source: The standard (2021)

A Rapprochement or Recalcitrant Affair?

Reality. Germany and Belgium refuse to play ball, and the US, a master of acting in concert found unawares makes mistakes too familiar to its past experience in Nicaragua with the contras; a Raila in his element is aware victory is looming and is charged to go for it at all costs akin to the situation in BCE 297 when Pyrrhus, king of Epirus defeated Romans but lost most of his soldiers. When a belligerent is determined to go, especially when their grievances are most realistic, they will charge at the other party like a bull in a Spanish arena. They go for the jugular; such was the situation in Kenya. The singers shifted.

That Was When the Talks Were Born

Ruto's balancing act: a riddance coming following knowledge of the critical proves once more that national intelligence acknowledges no idea of co-president. The clock ticking, and political losses so severe that the economic; are intertwined (legitimacy issues are the herald for a failing state, not debt). All this amidst an enemy as formidable as Raila; Mr. Ruto threw the gauntlet at Raila's feet and the latter as adaptable as the stick insect found a moment of reengineering. A Thaw? The orchestra has begun and 6 conditions by Raila already, how diverse were Ruto's options? 1(one)-seek a rapprochement: We have no hardliners, only men pretending to be hardliners.

Details: the US War Against Raila

Is all political local or international? An interplay of both implies that neo-functionalism is a faulty premise; Washington's desires have not always spilled over to Africa as policy; local considerations are gradually but surely outweighing international forces. Raila oversaw as AU Head of Infrastructure the building of Africa's grandest dam in the DRC, the INGA DAM set up via a $165 loan from China's Exim Bank. What a war front this proved yet again Western fears that his presidency would pave space for China's complete takeover of the continent! Along with the radicalness of his bedfellow, Hayati Magufuli once depicted.

Why the US's Face is with Wounds

Raila mustered one reality: that once the citizenry is with you, you are with the oracle of God; you are the majority--along with a politburo that understands all law, Azimio was in the law and with the people, the reason Kalonzo played all Nairobi matches. With the 2 realities, could Western powers and their MNCs still religiously defend UDA amidst the political brutality; amidst genuine democratic demands on the reconstitution of the IEBC? Aware its actions were within the law, Azimio cornered the master, the US; The US had few options at a time the dollar is suffering. The world is no longer unipolar, we have several centers of power.

And now Rigathi is a stranger in Jerusalem; yelling somewhere in Malava and clueless while Ruto transformed into a diplomatic spider weaving webs of compromise and realism in Nairobi; Ruto had to leave him out of all expenses for national duty demands the man to take action for, a man without vision risks being perceived as a woman in a trouser. Old Raila, a rejuvenated man is smiling; he lacks youthful strength but like a certain Thiago Silva uses positional play and wise reading of the game to mentally outrun youthful players on the political pitch; Who wins round 2? Ruto has won too by virtue of political circumstances.

Authored by Paul Were