Vladimir Putin is winning friends and influencing people in Africa. From the Editorial Board at strategic-culture.org:
Africa’s huge potential as a global power has yet to be realized largely because of ongoing colonialist legacies.
The Russia-Africa summit this week could not have been held at a more timely juncture in international relations. The event symbolizes seminal global change, which ultimately heralds a better future for humanity, despite the dangerous and terrible wrench associated with that change in the present.
Amid the dreadful NATO-fueled proxy war in Ukraine with Russia, leaders of nearly 50 African nations attended the two-day forum in St Petersburg, hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The conflict in Ukraine has been raging for more than 500 days and is in danger of spiralling out of control into an all-out world war between the United States-led Western states and Russia.
Washington and its NATO allies have spurned any attempt to end the bloody war through diplomatic means. African voices imploring a peaceful settlement have been dismissed with typical Western arrogance.
Indeed, the Western powers are recklessly escalating the violence by goading the Kiev regime, which seized control of Ukraine via a CIA-backed coup in 2014, to commit ever more infantry in a suicidal conflict.
This war has wreaked havoc on global food supplies and prices which have hit Africa’s 1.3 billion population mercilessly. Russia is the world’s biggest supplier of wheat and other grains, accounting for about 20 per cent of the total. Ukraine accounts for about 7 per cent.
Of course, the war has badly impacted global supplies and prices. But who started this conflict and who is preventing its end? The U.S. and its so-called security alliance NATO take full responsibility.
The Putinator will make it grain in Africa.
For the unbelievable low cost of $0.00 as Charlie Sheen would say, duh winning.
The coup in Niger is the hot scuttlebutt with some favorable to Russia nations lining up in Africa and not everyone wants the rainbow bathhouse forced on them by gunpoint.
It could even be a cannon fodder reserve for the RF!