Lesotho’s Health MoU Critics Are Undermining Lives With Conspiracy Thinking and Anti-American Paranoia

There is a habit in small states, and Lesotho is hardly unique in this, of dressing up irrational suspicion in the language of constitutional principle. The controversy surrounding the 2025–2030 U.S.–Lesotho health Memorandum of Understanding is a masterclass in this genre. Strip away the legalese and the sovereignty rhetoric and what remains is something far less sophisticated: utopian fantasy, procedural obstruction, and a barely concealed ideological hostility toward the United States that is costing Lesotho lives while its critics congratulate…Continue reading with a subscriptionSubscribe for full access to every story.Subscribe - M85/monthAlready a subscriber? Sign in Advertisement ...