Is Zimbabwe’s political power-sharing agreement good or bad for Zimbabwe?

If anything is deemed to be better than total collapse, it might be seen as good (for the time being, until it isn’t).

But it sets a wretched precedent.

It has all the moral stature of a deal between a reasonably honest citizen and the mugger who attacks him. To keep the peace and ‘prevent more bloodshed’, the mugger gets to stay gripping the citizen’s arm to stop him moving freely – and to keep a large share of the money he stole from him.

Should my and your taxpayers’ money go to prop up this absurd situation?

Not in any serious quantity.

Maybe as in the case of utterly incompetent banks looking to go bust, honourable attempts to stave off the worst only make the worst even worse when it finally happens?