Zimbabwe future

Blogcritics has published this piece I wrote about a possible outcome of the Zimbabwe impasse (a previous article on terrorism self-defeating tactics can be found here):

Like a reverse King Midas, everything Mugabe touches is changed into waste.

The latest of his blunders is changing the constitution – yet again – so that the rightful owners of the farms he has stolen cannot challenge the confiscations in court.
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One way out for Mugabe, perhaps the only one (short of suicide) at this point, is to provoke a crisis that would justify the introduction of martial law, immediately followed by a military coup (with his support in exchange for protection). His recent promise to allocate stolen land to 6000 members of the armed forces hints at some kind of agreement.

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Zimbabwe, Mugabe