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The second Russia-Africa summit, this week in St. Petersburg, should be seen as a milestone in terms of Global South integration and the concerted drive by the Global Majority towards a more equal and fair multipolar order.
The summit welcomes no less than 49 African delegations. President Putin previously announced that a comprehensive declaration and a Russia-Africa Partnership Forum Action Plan all the way to 2026 will be adopted.
Madaraka Nyerere, the son of Tanzania’s legendary anti-colonial activist and first President, Julius Nyerere, set the context, telling RT that the only “realistic” way for Africa to develop is to unite and stop being an agent for foreign exploitative powers.
And the path towards cooperation goes through BRICS – starting with the crucial upcoming summit in South Africa, and the incorporation of more African nations into BRICS+.
Nyerere’s father was a very important force behind the Organization of African Unity, which later became the African Union.
South Africa’s Julius Malema succinctly expanded the geoeconomic concept of a united Africa: “They [neocolonial powers] thrive on the division of the African continent. Can you imagine the minerals of the DRC combined with the minerals of South Africa, and with a new currency based on the minerals? What can we do to the dollar? If we become a United States of Africa, with our minerals alone, we can defeat the dollar.”
No humanitarian nature, no deal
The Russian-African Conference of the Valdai Club functioned like a sort of final expert watch synchronization in the run-up to St. Petersburg. The first session was particularly relevant.
That came after the publication of a comprehensive analysis by President Putin of Russia-Africa relations, with a special emphasis on the recently collapsed grain deal involving the UN, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine.
Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Russian Federation Council, has stressed how “Ukraine, Washington and NATO were interested in the grain corridor for sabotage”.
In his Op-Ed, Putin explained how, “for almost a year, a total of 32.8 million tons of cargo were exported from Ukraine under the ‘deal’, of which more than 70%
went to high-and above-middle-income countries, including the European Union, while countries such as Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia, as well as Yemen and Afghanistan accounted for less than 3% of the total volume – less than one million tons.”
So that was one of the key reasons for Russia to leave the grain deal. Moscow published a list of requirements which would need to be fulfilled for Russia to reinstate it.
Among them: a real, practical end to sanctions on Russian grain and fertilizers shipped to world markets; no more obstacles for banks and financial institutions; no more restrictions on charter of ships and insurance – that means clean logistics for all food supplies; restoration of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline.
And a particularly crucial item: the restoration of “the original humanitarian nature of the grain deal.”
There’s no way the collective West subjected to the Straussian neocon psychos who control US foreign policy will fulfill all or even some of these conditions.
So Russia, by itself, will offer grain and fertilizers free of charge for the poorest nations and contracts for grain supply at normal commercial terms for the others. Supply is guaranteed: Moscow had the biggest grain harvest ever during this season.
This is all about solidarity. At the Valdai session, a key discussion was around the importance of solidarity in the struggle against neo-colonialism and for global equality and justice.
Oleg Ozerov, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, and Head of the Secretariat of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, stressed how European “former” partners persist on the one-way track of shifting blame to Russia as Africa is “acquiring agency” and “denying neo-colonialism.”
Ozerov mentioned how “France-Afrique is collapsing – and Russia is not behind it. Russia is ensuring that Africa acts as one of the powers of the multipolar world”, as “a member of the G20 and present in the UN Security Council.” Moreover, Moscow is interested to expand Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) free trade deals towards Africa.
Welcome to Global South “multi-vector” cooperation
This all spells out a common theme in the Russia-Africa summit: “multi-vector cooperation”. The South African perspective, especially in the light of the raging controversy over Putin’s non-physical presence in the BRICS summit, is that “Africans are not taking sides. They want peace.”
What matters is what Africa brings to BRICS: “Markets, and a young, educated population.”
On the Russian bridge to Africa, what is needed, for instance, is “railways along coastlines”: connectivity, which can be developed with Russian assistance, much as China has been investing widely across Africa under BRI projects. Russia, after all, “trained many professionals across Africa.”
There’s a wide consensus, to be reflected in the summit, that Africa is becoming an economic growth pole in the Global South – and African experts know it. State institutions are becoming more stable. The abysmal crisis in Russia-Western relations ended up boosting interest in Africa. No wonder that’s now a national priority for Russia.
So what can Russia offer? Essentially an investment portfolio, and crucially the idea of sovereignty – without requesting anything in return.
Mali is a fascinating case. It goes back to investments by the USSR training the workforce; at least 10,000 Malians, who were offered first-class education, including 80% of their professors.
That intersects with the terrorism threat of the Salafi-jihadi variety, “encouraged” by the usual suspects even before 9/11. Mali holds at least 350,000 refugees, all of them unemployed. France’s “initiatives” have been deemed “totally inefficient”.
Mali needs “broader measures” – including the launch of a new trading system. Russia after all taught how to set up infrastructure to create new jobs; time to fully profit from the knowledge of those trained in the USSR. Moreover, in 2023 over 100 students from Mali are coming to Russia on state-sponsored scholarships.
As Russia makes inroads in French-speaking Africa, former “partners”, predictably, demonize Mali’s cooperation with Russia. With no avail. Mali has just dropped French as its official language (that has been the case since 1960).
Under the new constitution, passed overwhelmingly with 96.9% in a June 15 referendum, French will be only a working language, while 13 national languages will also receive official language status.
Essentially, this is about sovereignty. Coupled with the fact that the West, as recognized from Mali to Ethiopia – the only African nation never colonized by Europeans – is losing moral authority across Africa at astonishing speed.
Multitudes in Africa now understand that Russia actively encourages freedom from neocolonialism. When it comes to geopolitical capital, Moscow now seems to enjoy all it takes to build a fruitful, Global Majority-centered strategic partnership.
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What does Africa have, which Russia wants/needs? … A. Nothing. What does Russia have that Africa wants/needs? A. A lot. So, how is this going to work for Russia’s advantage? Russia had the right idea, make an ally out of Germany, but the US managed to stop it.
The Ethiopian public does not like Russia. Has lived through the devastations of Communism and understand where this road takes. Whatever “educational experience” and “scholarships” the Russian give to young Ethiopians, it is accepted with a practical perspective. The few scholarships and educational opportunities hardly make a dent for the majority, which still goes to Ethiopian-run, Ethiopian-established schools, and start its Ethiopian-run enterprises – big or small.
I think this is purely a governmental decision, where the natural trade and economic partners, the West, fell asleep at the wheel, and got taken over by an ideologically (anti-West) mind-set.
Ethiopians are far more West-friendly than Sino-Russian-friendly. And with the internal mess both these “super powers” face, I don’t think their presence in Ethiopian will last long.
One practical example. There is a “light rail” that the Chinese built in Addis Ababa. It was meant to take care of traffic congestion, and give quick and efficient transportation service to ordinary, carless citizens.
The rail is not completed. It takes a full lane off the regular Addis roads for miles on end. And the tiny area in which it functions, it crawls even slower than the slow traffic, that most people resort to the mini-bus-taxi services which maneuver through the traffic fast and efficiently.
There are countless examples like this.
It is only a matter of time before the patience of the ordinary citizens breaks.
The time is ripe for the West to re-emerge in Ethiopia.
KPA
Escobar’s optimism is contagious, big TQ
Russia may talk of practicalities, but it, along with its co-partner China, is full-on ideological about its move in Ethiopia. Again, this is doomed to fail, in Ethiopia – and I believe also eventually in the rest of Africa. Ideology does not buy bread, nor build functioning urban transportation. People are not so stupid. And governments CAN fail based on hedging bets like these – a few dollars for a return to the past.
KPA
“Tan-zan-ia” (as little donnie trumpf calls it), is pee-pee head serious, is this how desperate he is to spin his ridiculous yarn????
Brazil is a mess (but at least has honestly to sport respectable interest rates), Russia is a mess,India is a mess, China is a mess (and is now basically begging – in a command economy no less – banks to support insolvent property developers), South Africa is a mess. BRICS indeed.
Heck, you bet we can add “Tan-zan-ia” to this over-achievement club.
Escobar is a total joke, but then, he’s nothing but an over-reacher.
this looks like the beginning of a pan-african movement, that was the dream of gaddafi, for which he was murdered by obama (clinton if the truth be told) and sarkozy, in order to prevent the unification of africa, through a gold backed dinar that would replace the french franc . in exchange sarkozy returned france to nato and the pigs destroyed the most advanced african nation, in order to loot it and return the slave markets.
after this the russians had enough of trying to “deal” with the west and when these zioneocon demons decided to do the same to syria, the russians went in to support the elected government of assad and stopped these bloodthirsty murders in their tracks. if the u.s. and nato had not been stopped, israel would have become the entrenched hegemon in the middle east.
african nations are well aware of the evils of western colonialism, but were pretty much unable to resist western powers and their corrupt puppets. after seeing the russians in syria and then in ukraine, destroying western proxies and terrorists, many in africa welcome the russians as liberators and putins restraint, from tit for tat seizures and tariffs, gives them hope for the russians and chinese, to be honest brokers and partners in developing their countries. mali just dropped french as their official language, after a 97% approval of the general population. once the french and other colonial powers are run out of africa they won’t be welcomed back.
There are African ex-“leaders” living in Europe on the money they extorted from their own people with the help of ex-colonial powers.
There used to be a joke that Europeans need not complain because almost all EU “aid” was returned to Europe. To Swiss bank accounts.
It may be that if/as current trend continues, African illegal immigration, also encouraged by Euro ex-colonists (politicians who hate their own people), may dry up and even reverse. Similar for others as Europe slides into recession/poverty.
The situation of the African ex-“leaders” may become precarious, similar for the Euro politicians. While there may be terms for the Africans to return, no such possibilities would exist for the Euro pols, being despised both in Africa and at home.
Maybe leading to a rope and lampposts scenario.
One can hope, anyway …
“Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining.”
JFYI
Perfidious Albion again in the spotlight.
https://www.rt.com/news/580362-un-orthodox-bishop-ukraine/
Warm water ports. I’d guess there must be some resources the Russians lack, but I can’t think what.
Bananas?
My understanding is that the famous victories of the Ethiopians against the Italians were done under Russian supervision.
In general the Ak47 or other forerunner weapons provided by Russia helped boot out whites from Africa.
This is one reason why the British are so bitter about the Russkies. Rhodesia and SA became expensive to keep because of Russian assault rifles.
One little interesting footnote ,Prigo was in St.Petersburg glad-handing with African leaders , I guess all is forgiven …….or maybe the west was played for suckazz.
Negros to mate with Russian women and produce mulattoes?
It’s all the rage in the West, especially in Sweden, Poland and Germany.
Of course, this litte response is meant to get me worked up and call you something-or-other.
Since I bothered to “react,” here it is:
Give us some facts. Give us anything, anything (a piece of armor – whatever) that was found on location. This war is now a couple of centuries ago, and has had hundreds of commentaries, and dozens of book, on it.
I keep forgetting the russophiles on this site. Why not contact the pseudo Canadian Duchesne and get his take on this. Maybe you can both go and start an on-site investigation. The Russians might even give you grant money (maybe just Vodka…).
LOL
Africa is inundated with…, Africans.
The very best they can hope for, is to be plundered by their overlord of choice.
A dumbo comment alright.
Pssst, the world has moved on and Russia is no longer communist 😉
… and to restart its colonial exploitation and rape of the economy – something the Ethiopians don’t realize? Wakey, wakey …
Wakey, Wakey: Ethiopia was never colonized. And for a “right” site, you sure are a lefty.
Wakey, Wakey: All you Russophiles: Russia is STILL a Commie Country, as is China Land.
I suggest you emigrate there (either one) and see what’s in store for you. And don’t come back, we wont let you back in.
It is people like you you have no understanding of the Western ethos. The majority of the world has great respect for the West, or the West which had some grit and determination. Your West elected Macron, Sunak, Biden. And Merkel. And you are reaping what you’ve sown.
No-one wants China Land of the Russian Commies.
That is what I mean by waiting for the West to re-emerge.
Nikolay Leontiev.
The Russians who fought for Ethiopia in the battle of Adwa….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Artamonov
Menelik invited Leontiev to return to Ethiopia with a Russian military mission. In 1895 Leontiev organized a delivery of Russian weapons for Ethiopia: 30,000 rifles, 5,000,000 cartridges, 5000 sabres, and a few cannons.
The presence of the Russian advisers at the battle of Adwa helped the Ethiopians achieve victory in the first Italo-Ethiopian War. The Russian advisor Leonid Artamonov wrote that the Ethiopian artillery comprised 42 Russian mountain guns supported by a team of fifteen advisers.
Blacks are awkwardly keen on seeing Russia win their war here.
https://www.reuters.com/world/ethiopians-queue-up-volunteer-russias-fight-ukraine-2022-04-21/
On a wider note Africa was made untenable for whites because of Soviet interference after ww2 and their gift of the AK47. Which may explain some of the resentment of the British at least.
the western ethos is chaos, bloodshed, murder and occupation. always was and will be, until it is stopped and were in the middle of that right now.
It is no secret, nor surprise, that the Russian royalty, and the Russian Orthodox Church, acknowledged the Ethiopian royalty, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Your comment that I reacted to implied that the whole of the Ethiopian army was commanded by Russian assistance, which is again a false picture you are trying to paint.
Your little addendum via the manufactured war in Ukraine doesn’t refute my previous comment that Ethiopia and much of Africa has been duped into going “East” when they should be going “West.”
Why don’t you work on that premise?
What IS your point?
Your little addendum via the manufactured war in Ukraine doesn’t refute my previous comment that Ethiopia and much of Africa HAVE been duped into going “East” when they should be going “West.”
[Perhaps UNZ can give us a little more time to edit comments?] – KPA
Yes, all civilizations have “bloody” histories. Civilizations are not constructed with peacenik power.
But, all civilizations also have their beauties, their truth, and their goodness. And the West much more so. Of course.
I think it is better to work on that premise, rather than condemn it all with one stroke.
Why dont you emigrate to Ukraine and expose Russian malfeasance?
Niger just staged a coup that was telegraphed to the world with pro -Russian sentiments with Russian flag unfurled with the Nigerian. All the west can do is cry over ISIS returning . May be Haiti can take revenge on France by sending some of its street urchins who would pee on the western armies leaving Niger
Ignorant posting. Russia is no longer ruled by ideological idiots. Also, most importantly, they are not Neo-colonialists. Also, Russia fully intends to provide wheat for needful African nations. This wheat will be almost unquestionably organic. The shit that emerges from the $tates is nothing more than chemical warfare on the natural world…not as bad as GMO corn and soybeans, though.
…and funny boy is a messerschmidt. Messy mindset. Likely a victim of mainscream media misinformation, disinformation and general mindfuckery.
So who you attempting to kid with this pro-Talmudist controlled Western nations? Geopolitically you are either a knave or a misinformed fool.
Lol, you can have them Russia. Good luck with that.
Zhelaju udachi!
Slow day in the CIA—been tripping on acid at VOA— consoling widows in Afghanistan-Iraq—giving blow by blow action in Donbas ???
West is corrupt with Capital C and Hunter Biden–innocent??
The entire cast of Western leaders –a Gong show in slow motion–Biden in Attends–Trudeau shuffling Cabinet –7 Up and 7 Down–Rishi Sunak–third cousin of Gunga Din–the clown in Oz—all a complete gong show BUT–DEBT is sky high and ballooning –The Candy Man will pay it off ….
300 years of British rule and no economic advancement–the intent was to strangle it to poverty while reaping the resources at bargain basement prices –it is Called Imperialist Exploitation. England and Europe –the chickens are coming home to roost—
Wrong answer. Africa has dysprosium, neodymium, praseodymium, and terbium. The USUK conspiracy has been hard at work finding ways to suck those important rare-earths out of Africa at minimum cost. Everybody also wants gold, platinum, silver, uranium, copper, cobalt, lithium, potash, and diamonds. There is also a synergy with Russia’s fertilizer and Africa’s extensive but poor farmland. And solar power: Africa has sunshine that Russia lacks.
And Germany is a bigger mess, and the France is an even bigger mess and the USA is the biggest mess.
Some white Americans are really, really, absolute jokes
Very good! So let Ethiopians accept US as their best partner. No problem. See what happens.
I’m sure Libyans would agree with you
and some other nations. Generally African state of affairs and economies speak for more US influence.
I’m old enough to remember when white Americans look down on China as they do now on Africa.
One could imagine that they are all big intellectuals or rocket scientists.
It seems that they don’t have mirrors or reread what they write.
Their ignorance on history or geography or their understanding of the world is appalling
As a fellow Ethiopian i strongly welcome this new alliance against whitey! Go get em Pootin!
Well your geopolitical analysis is obviously tainted by watching too many Hollywood movies and/or reading western MSM lies. In fact Ethiopia is good a example of an African country waiting patiently – like so many other nations around the world – to join the coming multipolar order as soon as the BRICS, SCO and EAEU formally adopt a common currency for global trade. There’s no chance it will go back in history except that the US might try bribe some politicians there just to buy a little bit more time. Anyway for Africa the Multipolar route is irreversible.
Well said NSF – Last time I checked France was still collecting taxes from 10 of their EX colonies in Africa , to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Gotta laugh at France tho – even after seeing how the white /black relations in the USA panned out – they kept bringing in their ” Colonists”.
https://www.rt.com/india/580464-india-strict-brics-entry-rules/
“India and Brazil raised objections regarding the potential accession of Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg reported.”
India doesnt want rapid expansion of BRICS. It doesnt want Saudi Arabia . India wants Nigeria and Argentina instead be admitted quickly .
India predicates the admission on the nature of the government – if its democratic on not.
Nigeria and Argentina like India itself are corrupt regressive so -called democracies . Difference is India toggles between US and Russia spheres while those 2 in the pocket of US.
Indonesia is much more democratic than India is.
SCO and BRICS should be reorganized without India .
India destroyed SAARC . This is what India wants happen to SCO and BRICS.
The ” con ” the West has been using the world over is losing its grip! Democracy means economic tyranny and exploitation; capitalism equals servitude!! The third world finds there is something else on the table brought by China and Russia!! The ” new deal ” looks good to them because it is not ” colonialism “!! The ” vassals ” of the West are wising up and looking for something else. It is common sense to abandon the West as soon as possible!!
“Crusades failed –Hundred Years War–WWi–WII –Korea- Vietnam et al were for the sake of peace”
USA has been around for 247 –only 14 years not at war—Christianity Plus–Love your Neighbour ???
Many People, Few Opportunities:
More than 70% of Ethiopia’s people rely on the agricultural sector for work — a dangerous gamble in a region prone to periods of both flooding and drought. When environmental factors do not cooperate, much of the population suffers harsh economic damages. In 2015, Ethiopia experienced its worst drought in three decades. Many impoverished farming families lost their only source of income and nutrition as a result.
Throughout the years, violent wars, coups and ethnic conflicts have also served to damage the country’s infrastructure and prevent significant development. Educational opportunities remain severely limited, particularly for villagers in remote rural communities. At present, only about half the population has learned to read and write — and the statistics for women are even more disheartening. Oppressive traditional practices such as early marriage and female genital mutilation prevent advancement and keep many women imprisoned in poverty.
Ethiopia’s poorest households lack access to life’s most basic necessities, including food and clean water. In fact, more than 42% of the population does not have an improved drinking source, and 72% live without proper sanitation. High rates of malnutrition and infectious diseases prevail, putting lives at risk. Medical treatment is either unaffordable or inaccessible, as many families live too far from hospitals and clinics to seek professional care.
Send them All out—to the USA???
All this neocon bullshit about the “West” is surely outdated. Perhaps this could fool people in the 90’s, but now? When the post-Christian nihilist “West” is on display for all?
I hate and despise Communism, but at least old-style Commies weren’t/aren’t trying to replace their own countries’ population with brown/Muslim migrants or turning them gay.
Some modern racists say that slavery and its millions of dead and enslaved victims was a great opportunity for development for Africans, citing a few dozen black celebrities as an example; the russians will try it now considering that they are also human beings.
Let’s wait for the reaction of Western racism.
“If we become a United States of Africa, with our minerals alone, we can defeat the dollar.”
Your minerals and some Russian air defence systems and fighters, Mr Malema. Never forget Colonel Gaddafi and his fate.
Above all, bear in mind the Melian Dialogue:
“[Y]ou know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”.
Rest assured. With Russia giving grain and fertilizer sub Saharan Africa is still going to be a disease, famine, and AIDS infested corrupt third world shithole that can’t feed its own population. They may have hundreds of millions or maybe billions of people after(everyone is queuing up for a full bag of rice on Russia) creating even more armies of AIDS infected babies because of no impulse control and no deferred gratification as being the standard behavioral trait when it comes to blacks making the problem worse than it already is even if the intentions are good.
Me and Mrs Jones !
Ah, you must still be wearing your Covid mask but over your eyes. Please note the following:
1. Putin is white
2. China has all Africa’s politicians in it’s back pockets
3. Said combination of China, Russia and India will bleed Africa dry of its resources,
4. Black Africans will, with the collusion of their elected leaders remain piss poor and slaves although to a new clique.
5. While the locals live in grass huts, drink and wash from the outdoor sewers, shit behind some bush and depend on Whitey”s aid to eat, Afro Politicians will be living the good life in the West with fast cars, private planes and villas, usually in Switzerland.
Lets face it, this is a game of “what’s in it for me for everyone” and its a known fact that Blacks, once they get some money together do not want to live with other blacks.
As an Ethiopian you should know your country has been a shit hole for decades. That is why you fled as a refugee and now live with Whitey, in Whitey”s country and line up at Whitey”s Immigration department to sponsor your entire clan.
Better keep quiet and enjoy your White given privileges. Once those Russians, Chinese and East Indians get their claws firmly into the black man (whom they despise) its the end of handouts to Dindoos.
“What does Africa have, which Russia wants/needs?”
About 1.4 billion people (about the same as India or China) of good will, who would be happy to extend the hand of friendship to Russia and China.
Also a very great amount of natural resources, which can be extracted sustainably and purchased at fair prices.
If nothing else, it’s essential for Russia, China, and other Asiatic civilisations to keep Africa out of the hands of the Golden Billion. Bearing in mind how it obtained its gold in the first place.
For homework, arrive at a rough estimate of the number of Africans who have been killed, maimed, bereaved, impoverished or enslaved by Europeans and the European colonists living in North America. And the amount of wealth stolen from Africans by such means.
“Madaraka Nyerere, the son of Tanzania’s legendary anti-colonial activist and first President, Julius Nyerere, set the context, telling RT that the only “realistic” way for Africa to develop is to unite and stop being an agent for foreign exploitative powers.”
If only his and his pater’s dream would come to unite Africa as one nation a la European Union would stop the ongoing and accelerating exploitation by China.
Barak Hussain Obama could play a great role in the achievement of that goal, alas, he and Michelle are too busy living it up on the grift accumulated from the favors they did while they’re in the Whitehouse to the billionaire class at the expense of the middle class. With sons and daughters of Mama Africa like the Obamas, no wonder the Dark Continent has been subjugated to the hilt since time immemorial.
Pepe Escobar is lying….again. There are no sanctions on Russian agricultural products or fertilizers. As for SWIFT, The West offered that Russia cold set up a stand alone financial entity that could be monitored to process agricultural export transactions. Russia refused.
Blacks, along with Jews, should be exterminated.
Jesus forgive 🙏 me, but I’ll understand if you send me to the lower world. 🙄
Let me see:
1) Sell Russia’s first-class agricultural technologies so Africa can feed herself entirely and even export food products outside of Africa.
2) Sell Russia energy technology in power generation (so far, USSR/Russia has created over 25% of all hydropower capacity existing in Africa).
3) Sell Russia’s technical capabilities in the production of Africa’s fuel and energy needs. (Currently over 30 such projects are on-going).
4) Sell Russia’s technology and design in the development of Oil and Gas fields (ongoing in a dozen countries).
5) Sell Russia’s oil, gas, petroleum products and LNG to Africa (her exports have increasde by 260% in just two years).
6) Sell Russia’s and ROSATOM’s expertise in building and commissioning nuclear power plants, as currently being done in Dabaa, Egypt.
7) Sell Russia’s technology in the field of peaceful use of atom (agricultural, medicine, science).
8) Sell Russia optimally-priced industrial products: cars, manufacturing machines.
9) Sell Russia’s non-predatory financial products: loans, insurance, leasing.
10) Finance large infrastructure projects for her own benefits.
11) Sell Russia’s products in Information Technology, public electronic services, digitalisation.
12) Sell Russia’s capabilities in banking, payment and clearing to further circumvent the monopolies in London and Wall Street.
13) Sell and establish new, cheaper, faster trade and transport corridors (on-going International Transport Corridor North-South) to further alleviate Western blackmail on African economies.
How do I know? Because President Putin said it himself, as you would know if you weren’t busy indulging your moronic and uneducated prejudice.
Video Link
Your comment is a good illustration as per why the West is in decay, too busy shoving its racist head further down inside the century-old racist shit filling up its proverbial, rather than facing reality.
Russia has all the minerals anyone could ever want. It needs nothing from Africa. Russia grows all the food it can use, and a lot more. Solar power is useless. Even more useless would be thinking you can send electricity from Africa to Russia. Oh, Russia has all the electricity it could ever want, because it has fossil fuels and uranium, and people with brains. Anything else?
Meanwhile on the way to WW III
PUTIN ISSUES STARK WARNING TO POLAND AND NATO by Paul Craig Roberts!
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/07/29/putin-issues-stark-warning-to-poland-and-nato/
Friendship of people who have nothing you need is worth … nothing. The richest country on Earth in natural (mineral) resources is … Russia. Before the Europeans … not many people, living in the stone age. After … a billion people, living … well, at least not the stone age.
Does anyone think President Putin looks even remotely comfortable in that second pic?
Media reports the same with more self serving but giveaway detail.
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/china-pakistan-vs-india-at-brics-rivals-become-prics-as-bloc-on-way-to-become-economic-powerhouse/
India is a spoiler ,entitled child who tries to punch above his weight and comes always short of the minimum expectation .
India introduces vague hackneyed them of balance between regions , quality, of the political set-up contribution to global growth while it actually fears:
“Broadly, the surge of interest in the BRICS is a part of a larger paradigm shift of power from the US and West to the East, represented by China’s rise.”-Eurasiantimes
BRICS rise is demise of India . BRICS rise is based on attracting s many partners as possible who are ready to trade in non-dollar.
India can only rise high on the coattail of an existing power . China will have to wait 1 decade at least for India to tie its fate and prosperity to the tail of China . Until then it is ready to use Indian diaspora in US UK to further it interests that includes neutrality in Ukraine Russia war while offering obedient services to QUAD and buys Western silence on the degradations of Indian society informed by majoritarian fanaticism. .
USA’s loss is loss of India .Its diaspora will be a spent force and the so called GDP will evaporate .
In that situation, India will start talking about the civilizational bond and brotherhood with China.
Terrorizing the world forces people to prepare for war to defend themselves! Rather than leaving the world alone ” the West ” demands servitude which is not going to happen!!
World War Three is inevitable!!!
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You talk like one who’s never traveled beyond the county line.
You have never been to Africa, so you know not what you talk about. Man, nothing is like reading the toxic mix of entitled arrogance combined with self imposed ignorance.
Take a Google Earth fly over the coast of Africa. You’ll never miss the Riviera.
Every mineral that is found in other parts of the world is found in Africa. Gold deposits keep popping up everywhere.
Why do you think it is the most underdeveloped continent? So as to make it possible for the Western civilization to come out of hiding in the forest.
I enjoy Escobar’s commentaries, and I know he has political axes to grind (as do we all).
How-ever, an alleged Russia-African “strategic partnership”, or whatever phrase one chooses, is simply bull manure. A claim that the entire continent of Africa can be united – for any reason – is the most absurd kind of fantasy. The Russians and Chinese want access to the vast natural resources which sub-Saharan Africans have never had the ability or technology to exploit. I do not blame Escobar for wanting to dress up that fact in do-gooder hyperbole, but I am a bit disappointed (which of course reveals my own naivete) that he would do so.
South Africa is in precipitous decline.
They can ONLY be plundered not only by way of their citizens, but by the masters they choose.
In 25 years, the population will be living under trees and picking fleas out of each other’s crotch for food.
Which, by the way, I like to think about.
{if the u.s. and nato had not been stopped, israel would have become the entrenched hegemon in the middle east.}
This was the plan of the criminal West including ISRAEL designing 9/11 and killing 3000 Americans in order to go for 7 countries in 5 years killing millions of people in the region using traitors and terrorists, including the terrorist kurds, and other sell out in the region to make the apartheid entity as hegemon against other countries and groups in the region. These zionists have NO relations with the Middle East.
But, Iranians, General Soleimani and his friends, CHANGED criminals’ plan preventing them a quick victory. It was IRAN not Russia or fucking china who stopped US, NATO and the criminal Khazaris to go forward. It was Iran and NO ONE else who sacrificed and continue to sacrifice to push these scums out of the region not Russia or fucking China.
Russia is an ally of the criminal zionist Khazari and view them an extension of Russia in the middle east. Russia has been part of the West against the rest of the people in the region. Russia has stolen large amount of territory from Iran, and will NEVER become Iran’s ally. This is known to every Iranian who knows the history. Russia and Putin always have supported the terrorism of Khazaris against others including Palestinians. Do you remember the words of that ugly face, Lavrov who legitimized Netanyahu, a baby killer, crimes against Palestinian children by saying “Israel has a right to defend itself” like the criminals and zionist stooges in Washington, Germany and London. Putin and Russia are allies of the criminal zionists because Russia like the West was involved in the creation of Israel using lies and deceptions to plunder the wealth of the people in the region.
The Iranian drones were very helpful to Putin to stand against the West, but Putin once again put a KNIFE on Iran’s back by honoring the terrorist Khazari’s demand, Netanyahu, not to deliver Su-35 Jets where Iran has PAID for them, because zionist putin listens to a baby killer and terrorist like Nektanyahu to protect Russian’s outpost in the Middle East. Putin must know that this is going to be remembered by the Iranians for ever. It was Khamenei who tried to push the treason of Russians and Putin under the rug to pens a new relations based on TRUST, but Putin shows cannot be trusted because he, more than anything else, is a zionist petty man not deserving the Iranian sacrifices made for a new world order. It was Iran, Iran, Iran who changed the world order and weakened the imperialist US stand on world state, not
Russia or China. They benefited from Iranians’ sacrifices. Both were obedient and were begging for acceptance, yet the criminal west waged a war on them. The only country in the region who has a civilization to offer is Iran and NO one else. That’s why all of them, including Russia, are afraid of Iran. Russia and Israel were the only countries who are against Iranian nuclear program, Not US. US was pushed into the game by the Kharazi terrorists who are on the side of Russia. The zionist Khazari are the enemy of humanity and must be contained. Russia thinks differently willing to use Khazari for her own interest against the rest including Iran.
https://www.bourseandbazaar.com/articles/2023/7/13/iran-paid-for-su-35-jets-but-russia-wont-deliver-them
Keeping Africa from falling into/continuing to be ….in the West’s camp is good enough a reason. It would prevent African resources from aiding the other side.
Lets be honest. The real struggle is between the US and its European and Far Eastern/Australian vassals on one side, and Russia and China on the other side.
All the others…Africa, South American, South Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, are just the supporting actors. Keeping them from being in the opposing camp is already a win.
In reality, the true value of BRICS is as a powerful PR move for Russia and China. It has selected the largest nation from every Global South continent to be represented. It is meant to show the Global South that Russia and China are on their side. They deliberately want to contrast starkly with that elitist club, the G7
Working with African nations, huh? That’ll turn out as good as their venture into Afghanistan. Africa will eat all the West (and East’s) money, as much as it can, provide little in return, and ultimately just be a huge money drain. I find it hard to read more than the first several sentences without concluding this plan, and participants, are clearly delusional.
Russia is not a reliable ally.
All the countries (Libya, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Yemen, Somalia, the Czech Republic, etc) that they supported since the Soviet era have been destroyed by the U.S. while Russia was watching from the sidelines.
Syria may an unlucky exception.
Dude a little bit of good old Ethiopian humor obviously didn’t get to you. Sorry your such a knuckle dragging racist “good old white boy” but i know EXACTLY what your talking about! Had a little bit of contact with a “fellow” African dictator and let me tell you it was not positive!
Anyway get a life LOSER!!!
Tears and laughter can be produced on the internet!!
The tears come from the millions of United States workers paying their taxes their whole lives as our government wastes the money on needless weapons that do not work!!
The laughter comes because this is not a movie; it is our real life United States Government in action!!
The F-35 Lightning’s Vulnerability To Lightning Is Both Ironic And Unforgivable by Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/f-35-lightnings-vulnerability-lightning-both-ironic-and-unforgivable
Very good point. Another reason why the British are so bitter about Russia is about the concept of universal education. You know historically and traditionally speaking the British were firm believers that education is the sole privilege for the upper class members. At that time people who wanted to learn how to read or write had to attend church schools part time. It was carved in stone that Oxford and other schools are only reserved for the upper class. But after 1917 Revolution and the 12 year compulsory education which is today still the standard all over the world, the British faced no other option except follow along the same path and make universal education compulsory. However they had kept their hatred of Russia ever since. Basically the British have always been a very elite centric culture and nobody better than Charlie Chaplin could show it through his films.
Russia has everything it needs but it needs everything everyone’s got, especially in Africa. This global conflict should now enter the resources war phase where Russia and PR China try to deprive their Western enemies of all sources of resources so that they cannot be used in the war effort against them. They need to starve the West of resources. That’s how I see these latest developments of taking over African economies. After taking over Africa they can repeat the same in South America.
I wholeheartedly agree with your comment, but what could Escobar have meant by this curious quip in the second to last paragraph?
wasn’t South Africa and Rhodesia colonized by Europeans?
Or did he intend that those nations weren’t nations at the time of the colonization?
Whereas Ethiopia was? I’m not sure I understands what he means by that.
A better question is, What does Africa have that can help Russia?
The answer is, Africa has Europe’s raw materials. Europe is utterly dependent on energy and minerals from West Asia and Africa. Note that Saudi Arabia is moving towards Russia and China (the Saudis want to join BRICS), Iran is already a member of SCO, and nearly all of Africa is going that way.
Together, the people of the Global Majority can make Europe pay for its lies and its utterly rapacious plundering of most of the world. If the Europeans are the ones being squeezed, instead of doing the squeezing, Russia will be happy.
Projection at is purest and finest.
You don’t have the tiniest clue about the tiniest anything: the European Union always an anti-democratic (((American))) project, and China never exerts any financial or political pressure for all the positive realisations she brings to Africa.
China has never brought down any African government by a coup d’etat, never assassinated any African leader, never raped any African nation of its assets by forcing financial loans and then suddenly increasing interest rates. All of which the Collective West has done galore.
Until last week government had refused to go along with economic sanctions on Russia. Now, economic sanctions are due to start next month. Date, IIRC, is the 9th, so half-way between atomic bombing of Hiroshima and atomic bombing of Nagasaki, originally intended for Kokura, but clouds blocked the photo-ops,
This is so stupid,and can only be the result of arm-twisting at G-7 and by the U.S.A.
seems to me what’s holding up the deal is the iranians insistence on a transfer of technology, that had not been part of the cancelled deal with egypt (which was the origin of these planes). i think the situation is a lot more complex than you describe. i do not discount the +40 years of resistance of the iranian people and the major role they play in syria as well as hezbollah and their decades of resistance you don’t mention.
remember solimani went to moscow and met with putin before the russians went into syria, so obviously there was coordination at the highest levels and the iranians needed the russians world class weapon systems, wagner’s mercenary skills, as well as russia’s political gravitas, on the world stage. any way you look at it syria would have fallen, if not for the bold move by the russians that caused them to be treated like pariahs by the zog west.
the iranians help the russians, the russians help the iranians, they already share tech but a fifth gen fighter that is key to their netcentric warfare system, might be tech they don’t want to share with anyone.
Russian soldier who sacrificed his life fighting the fiend in Syria
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/581b23901600002e002c820f.jpeg?cache=ftlnkt9sa9&ops=1910_1000
here’s three hundred more Russians, dead or maimed in one week alone, fighting to protect Syria from the fiend. Are their very lives, not sacrifice enough for you?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-casualtie-iduskcn1fz2dz
And that’s not to mention the Syrian men, fighting in the Syrian army, who’ve also sacrificed their lives fighting the fiend.
Iran is doing its part, but your unhinged frothing that they’re the only ones, makes you look silly, (or worse).
You are so wrong about that.
“All the others”, as you say, know that they can be turned into another Afghanistan, or a Libya, or an Iraq, whenever the (((American))) hegemon decides that it wants something that they have.
So most of these “other” Global South countries are actually working with China and Russia in the background. The Western “elite” just does not want bother acknowledging it, since they well know that they rule by fear anyway.
I do not know the rules, but decisions should be made by majority. If individual state will have a blocking power that would be totally destructive.
Nato have a blocking power by individual states and that will be destructive power for Nato.
exactly, it’s like he hates ’em or is having his flesh crawl or he is reminding himself to check his wallet. The image does not prove much about his love of jews.
These things are probably true slantwise. Middle Class British tend to see the Russians as backward peasants.
Ethiopia is the only African country to never have been colonised by any European nation, although it was occupied and annexed by Mussolini’s Italy from 1936 to 1941.
Since Russia has tried o cut off grain exports from Ukraine, Africa is not happy with the struting Nazi runt.
Many of them are backward peasants. Anyone supporting Putin is a backward peasant.
Nationalistic Communisms with market individual economy is the most successful sistem.
Chinese have proven it.
Democracy with two party system that does not have control over economy is a total failure.
US has proven it.
out of buttons
Thanks
Yes, sure, your “contribution” to human civilisation is unsurpassable. No doubt that your synagogues and massage parlours a la Jeffrey Epstein look better than this. In your eyes at least.
Watch “Empire of Dust” and you will come to the same sad conclusion. You can’t help but feel for the Chinese road engineers who have to move heaven and earth just to get the local Africans to deliver a simple load of gravel.
Let me guess: you were educated in the UK or a major post-colonialist European country…
Are you paid in U$ dollars, or shekels?
i agree with iris on this, (and wanted to thank her but was out of buttons). technically they were never occupied, after having driven the italians out. after haile selassie was overthrown, by supporters of marxist lennonist coup, called the derg that ruled over eithopia until 1991, when support from the soviets had ended. in 1992 ethopia reestablished links with israeli.
salassie’s name at birth was ras tafrari makonnen, and jamaican rastafari’s saw him as the second coming of christ and living descendant of solomon (as well as the queen of shebia). this leads to the rastifarianians to consider themselves to be the lost tribe of judah, and explains their support of israel, rather than their condemnation of the apartheid state, as they did with south africa. the whole thing is an undecipherable clusterfuck, of competing and contradictory view points. i would like to point out, the tigray uprising against the established ethopian government was a direct result of the nato coup in lybia and intended to export the chaos they created in lybia, to ethopia, on the nato world wide tour of total destruction. the only thing i can take away from this, is the bob marley song war, inspired by the words of halie salassie.
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You’re right! China is goody-goody two shoes.
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Everything depends on what other countries can do for Africa not what the Africans can do for themselves. It has always been that way. The Africans can’t build the infrastructure necessary let alone maintain it so large scale farming can be sustained. The Africans need assistance for that too. The Africans don’t possess the mentality or work ethnic so either(large scale farming and infrastructure) can be sustained or maintained. Something the Chinese on the ground in Africa already know. They are there to exploit the resources. They view the African population as being in the way of those resources and exploiting them. If they could import mass amounts of Chinese for labor and construction they would. The Chinese are famous for keeping African labor to a minimal on their construction projects or not using African labor at all.
The Africans can take ready made countries like Rhodesia(now the despotic abomination known as Zimbabwe) and South Africa that were once agricultural producing and exporting countries and turn them into what sub Saharan Africa is: a food aid dependent non-self sustaining economic basket case depending on the developed world to feed it.
President Biden is sending more weapons to Taiwan and sending more United States troops into Syria! Our neo-cons are just crazy!!
That’s what Africa gets from Russia … the reverse is nada, nothing.
The attitude is pervasive.
It’s quite typical for the privately educated middle and upper middle to guffaw at the fundamental unsoundness of the Russkie.
There are a lot of women who go into Russian Studies to get into spying business in the UK. Quite high flying grades at school. But they see the ordinary working class Russian as an animal of some kind.
Hmmm … what happened to S. Africa? Oh yeah, now I remember.
BRICS was invented by a banker at Goldman Sachs. He thought these were the countries that would exhibit the most rapid growth. RIC really does matter. BRIC matters as well. But, adding S. Africa now looks pathetic. Decades of mismanagement means that S. Africa does not matter at all.
Those ‘resources’ are all going to end up with China. Russia could just stay out. They need nothing from Africa. As I said at the top, what Russia needed was Germany, and they tried hard, but failed for the time being anyway. They will have to make do with China. Will probably work OK, but not as well as it would have with Germany.
Sometimes Mr. Escobar writes a piece that’s merely pleasant to read in a reactionary, contrarian sort of way.
At other times, Mr. Escobar writes something that feels like a perfect replica of a 1975 soviet piece, but without the “dear comrades”.
I’m sure I speak not only for myself: next time there’s a Soviet piece, add the “dear comrades” stuff! If we’re going retro, let’s go all the way. Sovpunk.
Next time: full throttle! Sincere, ironic, double-post-meta, whatever. Just do it. Go all in.
You have serious comprehension problem. Do you understand the difference of meaning between the verbs “sell” and “give”?
Yes, it is a general law within human nature.
Country bumpkins are convinced that they are very sophisticated and worldly, idiots always believe that they are very smart, and the un-cultured that they are superior to everybody else.
Ghaddafi was the one who was the proponent of a pan-African currency based on commodities. He was killed because of it by the US and France and their jihadi henchmen. The irony is that set in motion a chain of events that is leading to that exact goal. Russia decided to intervene in Syria so Assad would not face the same fate as Ghaddafi.
As to currency – BRICS is moving closer toward it. Russia accepts payment for energy outside the U.S. dollar. Qatar and UAE and potentially Saudis will be accepting Yuan. India and UAE agreed now to settle energy in rupees…. Bolivia just became the third South American nation to now trade in yuan after the two biggest – Brazil and Argentina. So Africa is indeed next.
Africa has people that can buy Russian commodities. And in case you didn’t know – African countries have airports and even airlines. They actually use planes. Russia makes planes. They can buy Russian planes for less. China had built lots of rail across Africa. Yes they use Chinese trains. No reason they can’t also buy Russian trains too – as Russia makes trains as well. There are over 1 billion people in Africa and growing. Between Russia and China they can buy all the things they previously got from the west at higher prices. China is already now Africas largest trade partner. Don’t be surprised if Russia doesn’t become #2
White racists make no sense to me. You all hate to see Africans move to your countries. You should be sincerely cheering Russia (and China) on so they can help African nations develop so the people won’t want to move to white countries
Three part series explaining African Sovereignty and it’s goals for development and trade.
“Africa is playing for itself”
Part 1:
https://orientalreview.org/2023/07/27/africa-is-playing-for-itself-i/
Part 2:
https://orientalreview.org/2023/07/28/africa-is-playing-for-itself-ii/
Part 3:
https://orientalreview.org/2023/07/29/africa-is-playing-for-itself-iii/
Anybody supporting the Evil Empire is a bass-ackwards piss-ant.
Sunshine, perhaps? Whatever it is, Russian interest in Ethiopia goes all the way to the end of the 19th century when Russia tried and failed to join the so-called “Scramble for Africa”.
You might also want to look up one Nikolai Leontiev who tried to meddle in Ethiopian affairs around the same time … and did quite well for himself until the Ethiopian emperor became aware of his trickery and kicked him out of the country.
Pepe is such a drone and bore. He is an old man with decrepit ideas.
The R.F. (including prez. Poutine) has in this case picked the most stupid possible way to try to make a show of continuity from the U.S.S.R.
is not a serious person, just a pure hater and exemplar of the gibsmedat mentality. He appears to have no idea of history, just obsessed with hating the Boers, who were in that part of the world before his own ancestors, while turning a blind eye to British moves on behalf of Jewish interests, and the continued control of the latter over resources.
No aid to Africa! In most places, they have destroyed every good thing (schools, hospitals, transport, other infrastructure) left to them at independence after a very brief colonial period.
China has the right idea, help but only if it is to China’s own benefit and profit.
Chinese transactions in Africa are fairly simple. China is m out like the west and doesn’t tell the Africans how to live or how to govern. They say “hey you need a bridge and a highway and a solar plant and a train”. “You have copper (or gold or etc)”. “ we will build it and train your people to run it after in exchange for 1 million tons of xyz… and we don’t have time to wait so we will do the extraction ourselves”. Africans like being treated like adults and so accept. Some laborers get mad they don’t get the job – but it is a net positive for their country. The west can offer no comparable nor beneficial deal.
I see a lot of similarity between Russia and African countries – for one, political system based on a mafia like structures or primitive economy based on export of resources.
Not my point. With or without the Chinese interference or no interference the Africans are still going to be stuck being themselves having the same problems most of all not being able to feed their growing population depending on others to do it. The Chinese are interfering in Africa but doing it in a way that is understanding of the Africans. That is placating and indulging the innate and endemic corrupt nature of the Africans and exploiting it just as other peoples and cultures did in the past. In essence what the Africans are doing is exchanging one external master(the Europeans) for another(the Chinese)be they less controlling and interfering because they are faced with being non-self sustaining aid dependent economic basket cases after the Europeans left not being able to provide for their own growing populations nutritionally.
https://europerenaissance.com/2022/02/11/british-foreign-minister-mocked-after-geography-gaffes/
Indeed, here is a typical standard product of a superior British middle class private schooling followed by the best of Oxbridge education, at the helm of Her Majesty’s Foreign Office
“Liz Truss said that the UK’s ‘Baltic allies’ were located on the Black Sea, despite them being over 1,000km apart. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been slammed by Russia’s Foreign Ministry after a geography error confusing two different bodies of water in Europe, over 1,000km away from each other. In an interview with the BBC, Truss explained that London is ’supplying and offering additional support into our Baltic allies across the Black Sea.’ PROBLEM Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are located nowhere near the southeast European body of water which is 1,000km from the Black Sea bordering Central Asia.
‘Mrs. Truss, your knowledge of history is nothing compared to your knowledge of geography,’ Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel. ‘To ‘defend the Baltics,’ you don’t go through the Black Sea, but through the Baltic Sea. The Baltic states are so called because they are located on the shores of this sea. And not the Black Sea,’ she continued. According to Zakharova, Truss’ uselessness at school book geography is evidence that the world needs to be saved from the stupidity and uneducated Anglo-Saxon politicians.’ noting that the head of the Foreign Office probably should know a thing or two about where countries are added Maria Zakharova.”
It is important to add, considering the number of deluded pro-Russia retards here, that this stand alone financial entity would be connected to the SWIFT system.
Trouble is the niggers will multiply.
Amongst your examples, Syria was the last to happen.
All the other examples happened when Russia itself was itself a victim of the West, or too weak to help.
It was only by the time of Syria that Russia woke up to the nefarious nature of the West, and was strong enough to do something about it.
Agreed.
Just to add my 2 cents:
What Russia thought it needed was Germany.
It is like when you could not find that brand of milk you wanted at the supermarket, and bought another brand instead. But surprise! The new brand is even better that what you wanted.
China itself is a market far larger than the EU. Through Chinese manufacturing industries, Russia’s resources will be exported to the world.
In 10 years time, the Russians will be so grateful for the gift of Western sanctions.
Interesting comment by Eritrean president about the bigger picture:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/tass.com/world/1653855/amp
Ummm you don’t get it. Africans like dealing with the Chinese precisely because they do NOT interfere in African relations. They are there for business. The Russians get involved – but only when asked to
It looks like Africans at least, and unlike us, are not fooled.
While the Russia-Africa summit was taking place in Moscow, the Niger sitting president Bazoum, a Macron colonial stooge, was deposed by a coup. (He is alive and well, but not in power anymore).
Rothschild puppet Macron has been making incensed declarations and even held a national security council meeting, as if a coup happening in Africa’s poorest country, 10,000 kilometres away, had any bearing on France’s stability.
(Niger has immense uranium reserves that have been extracted on the cheap for decades).
Bazoum’s removal is obviously lamented by the Zios in Washington, with Anthony Blinken joining in the Rothschild lamenting choir.
Nigerians, on the other hand, have been demonstrating in joy in the streets of the capital Niamey, chanting slogans against Macron’s colonial control and holding and waving the Russian flag:
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So inhabitants of Niger are called the same as the inhabitants of Nigeria. It makes sense.
Apologies Mike, that was a typo error made by distraction.
In both French and English, inhabitants of Niger are called Nigeriens (with an “e”), while those of Nigeria are Nigerians (with an “a”).
I guess both are named after the Niger river, the 3rd longest in Africa (4,200 km), which crosses 6 counties including those two.
One of the steps in the way to the successful eradication of AIDS,corruption,ethnic violences and poverty is quiet defenestrations of US ,France,and UK out on the sea bed around Africa.
Rest will follow .
Africa should be careful of Russia and India. Russia is Chabad dominated and India is another Africa .
The Duran’s take on this Afro Russian summit.
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Have no doubt the Africans do. Most of all corrupt African government officials that the Chinese placate, indulge, and ply their corrupt nature with money. Africans just being Africans and the Chinese understanding them paying the Africans to get what they want. Everyone is happy. They are in agreement but that still constitutes interference agreement or not or not telling the Africans how to run their affairs. That is so the Chinese can go on operating in whatever country sometimes to the detriment of the surrounding African population in an area.
Nonsense.
The particularity of China’s economic involvement in African nations with weaker state structures is that it is overwhelmingly based on barter.
The Chinese build infrastructure and get minerals in exchange, for instance. As a consequence, corruption of individuals is avoided by design of their contracts.
Whereas Western contracts consist in lending money which is immediately diverted by Western stooges and sent back to European banks, while the local population is saddled with paying the interests on the disappeared money and is therefore robbed many times over.
Western financial institutions don’t even hide it: Jacques Attali, one of the Globalists’ top strategist and enforcer of the Talmudic debt slavery policies established by the IMF and World Bank, once publicly raged that China’s barter policy should not be tolerated.
My point to you is Africa’s existence of its countries on the most basic level is what developed countries like China can do for Africa not what the Africans can do for themselves. That is why Africans have non self-sustaining countries that are economic basket cases that can’t feed their own growing populations that depend on what developed countries can do for them not what Africans can do for themselves and their country. None of what you wrote changes that.
Sadly for you, you are actually not making any point about any topic of collective interest, whether political, economic, geopolitical or otherwise.
You are not providing any objective information about the current relationship between China and Africa, or Russia and Africa. You are only exposing your own mindset, displaying the extent of your own prejudice and ignorance, which are so entrenched and so irrational that they prevent you from seeing the reality, even when this reality is profusely described by the many well-informed and well-travelled alternative analysts quoted in this discussion.
Please give me a break with your simplistic “African economic basket case” theory; only 12 years ago, two violent and bloody NATO-backed coups d’état were organised against African leaders because they promoted their countries’ economic interests, Gaddafi in Libya and Gbago in Cote d’Ivoire. If such theory was correct, Vladimir Putin, who is a million times more intelligent than you and me, would not be wasting his time establishing long-term economic relationships with Africa.
You are just too blind to see the reality, because you need to cling to your religion that Africans are inferior, so you can believe that your Afro-Americans are inferior to you, too. Enjoy your racialist supremacist la-la-land; all ideologies coming from America are totally irrelevant anyway, I won’t waste my time.
I think so too. Mao Zedong said:
What you write and calling me a “racist” changes nothing when it comes to Africa. The Africans and their countries CANNOT provide themselves with a basic level of existence and look to other countries to do that and have for a long time. Africans think getting food from Russia is great. Why is that? That’s because the Africans CANNOT produce a sufficient amount of agriculture to feed their own population. One of the most basic things for existence that Africans CANNOT produce themselves. Do you and other Africans understand this? No you don’t. Your attitude is to have others feed you because you CAN’T do it yourselves. That’s a fact. Your screed about geo-political interests, the relationship between China, Russia, and Africa, NATO blowing up Gaddafi, and my “racism” changes nothing when it comes to Africans depending on others to feed them.
Have you ever read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by John Perkins?
It shows how the West actively sought to keep developing countries down.
Here is a link to a free PDF version:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjUvoqb67eAAxWwbmwGHbtiDEwQFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fresistir.info%2Flivros%2Fjohn_perkins_confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1qKlnWTgP2Lc3aj-FcNaGC&opi=89978449
Here is a video. There are many many more. His message is well worth listening to.
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Have you ever read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by John Perkins? I highly recommend it.
It shows how the Empire actively sought to keep developing nations down.
There are free pdf versions easily available. But here is a video interview for an entertaining 20 minutes
You are simply projecting western ways on to Chinese.
Has nothing to do with Africans not having the ability to feed their own populations. One of biggest reasons is the Africans never really developed agrarian based societies and communities and were largely stone age hunter gatherers with no written language with some pastoral people.
Nope. They have their own ways to get what they want from the Africans. One of them is not by force which sometimes the European colonists did do. They do it by way of the innate and endemic corrupt nature of the Africans that makes the Africans happy. The Chinese have some deep pockets and view the corruption as part of doing business in Africa.
When did Africa start importing food?
Before or after the age of European domination?
Africans are fed up with the criminal WEST and its owner, the Jewish mafia, are sick and tired being ROBBED by these terrorists, push them all out of their countries. The Middle East should do the same and kick these thieves and their project, apartheid entity, out of the region.
I don’t need you today tell me what Chinese think of Africa. Chinese are about business and will work with anyone – even the Taliban. In any event – no need for you to worry. Putin hosted all of them… Don’t think Putin and Xi aren’t discussing how to work together on the continent. If you knew the average African thought they view Russians and Chinese more favorably than the former colonial countries for a reason.
Civilization flourished in Northern Africa for millennia . Lot of Greek phislosohers – scientist came from N Africa .
In Sahel region , Mali commanded a robust civilization and is credited with one of the oldest univeristy .
Ethiopia and further south , kingdoms rose and flourished .
North Africa is not, and never was, black.
As usual, if you say something confidently, the probability is that the opposite is true. The Axum Empire (link), where Ethiopia is, was black, and so is Ethiopia now. The Axum Empire was impressive: it lasted over 800 years and had some of the best technology of the day, especially in ships.
Ancient Egypt and the Egyptian civilisation were created by Black people from Nubia (currently North of Sudan), as proven by the early multidisciplinary works produced by Cheikh Anta Diop, who crushed all his critics during the 1974 UNESCO symposium dedicated to the subject, when free speech was still free.
The evidence is simply overwhelming. For starters, the obvious geographical direction speaks for itself. The Egyptian civilisation had its first settlements 10,000 years ago near Nubia, then flourished South of Egypt in the Upper Nile river (circa 5000 BCE), before moving North towards the Mediterranean for its later dynasties.
And no, I am neither Black nor Nubian/Sudanese, I just profoundly resent being taken for a ride by the POS thought police ruling over us and trying to eradicate our common sense.
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As usual, if you say something confidently, the probability is that the opposite is true. The Axum Empire (link), where Ethiopia is, was black, and so is Ethiopia now. The Axum Empire was impressive: it lasted over 800 years and had some of the best technology of the day, especially in ships.
Ethiopia is not in North Africa. North Africa refers to Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
100% wrong. There is zero presence of sub-Saharan DNA in the Egyptian population before 700AD. You may consult Egyptian tomb paintings to see how Egyptians represented themselves, they do not portray themselves as sub-Saharan Africans. However the Tomb Of Huy does show a small group of foreign mercenaries(Huy’s job was procuring mercenaries) among other groups of mercenaries and this small group is very obviously sub-Saharan African, painted in Burnt Umber pigment and wearing idiotic dreads of nappy hair, prancing like moronic blacks, very obviously negroid and totally different from how Egyptians represented themselves. Diop is a sub-idiotic, nauseating fraud. He attained access to the mummy of an Egyptian king claiming he wanted to examine it for evidence this king had been murdered in a knife attack. He did not have permission to take tissue samples, but falsely claimed he had done a DNA analysis that showed a genetic marker he claimed was sub-Saharan African. He never took any tissue samples and cannot show any lab results. The latest DNA analysis, done just a few years ago, examined over 200 Egyptian mummies. Done in a lab in Vienna. The results showed the Ancient Egyptians were closer to modern Europeans than they were to modern Middle Easterners. If you want to know what the Ancient Egyptians looked like, take a look at modern Armenians. You are 100% wrong that Ancient Egypt started in Nubia “10,000 years ago”. There simply are no Archeological remains in Egypt from 10,000 years ago. Ancient Egypt’s origins are in the Lower Nile nowhere near Nubia. Nubians did build half assed imitations of Egyptian Pyramids long after the Egyptian ones, but they are tiny, and of a goofy pointy shape. Clearly jackass imitations if the real thing with no understanding of the Pyramid’s geometry.
Nothing you write here, past history or mythology, amounts to sub Saharan Africans having the ability to feed their own growing populations now or in the future.
Just explained to you that yes Chinese have their own way of doing business than others in the past and I was not projecting western ways of doing business in Africa. The way of doing business for the Chinese is to placate and indulge the innate and endemic corrupt nature of the Africans. It seems successful in that has not created conflict between them.
So I wasn’t projecting as you claimed.
The Egyptians themselves don’t believe that their ancestors were blacks. In fact they strongly object to such notions.
Before the Europeans got there the vast majority of sub Saharan Africans were in a primitive stone age state of existence. They were not farming or being farmers. If you were to take away the food and medical aid that the sub Saharan Africans get from the developed world that they depend on just for their basic existence they not going to be pulling out plows and pitchforks and start farming. They will start dying in mass within months.
Lira has resurfaced. No explanation how he got out of jail.
https://www.rt.com/news/580645-gonzalo-lira-ukraine-torture/
You are partially right. The United Nations (link) does not consider Ethiopia to be in Northern Africa. However, Sudan is there, in spite of what you claim, and Ethiopia is right next door. So you are technically correct on Ethiopia, but only by the skin of your teeth.
And I was correct that Axum (now Ethiopia) was a very successful black empire, with impressively high technology, thus contradicting the very racist tone of this subthread.
That doesn’t answer the question.
Sub Saharan Africans were not importing food until the European powers started messing with them.
Do you know of the exquisite Benin bronzes?
Ethiopians know how evil Communism is? Well, unless they are retarded they also know that the USA and UK are both far more Communist now than is Russia.
You are off base. Educated Ethiopians know that ancient Ethiopians had no Bantu genes or Bantu cultural patterns. And most Ethiopians who get round an bunch of Bantus quickly realize that they are not at all the same people.
Bantu genes are part of Ethiopians now because off centuries of waves of Bantu raiders raping and leaving behind bastards as well as some Bantu raiders being bribed to stop reading by staying there and intermarrying.
I was referring to “Egyptians”. Surely I didn’t misspell them as “Ethiopians”.
You are very correct, Mike, this is the official position of most contemporary Egyptian archaeologists .
But the reason is because contemporary “Egyptians” have little to nothing to do with the Ancient Egyptians who created a brilliant civilisation which was already at her pinnacle 5,500 years ago (when King Narmer unified Upper and Lower Egypt and his exploits were recorded on the famous palette artefact).
Today’s Egyptians are a mixed people produced by dozens of migrations, from the ME, Arabia, SubSaharan Africa, Greece, the Northern and Eastern Mediterranean. They are the result of so many interactions, taking place for such a long duration, following the formation and ascent of so many conquering Muslim dynasties in particular, that they genetically have little to nothing in common with their alleged “ancestors”.
Their proprietary claims to Ancient Egypt are 5 times more ludicrous than if today’s Turks would bizarrely pretend to be the only true descendants of the Byzantines, which they certainly don’t.
The Byzantines had indeed some Anatolian genome, but considering their religion, history and journey, they were even more so the product of Greece, with probably significant “Slavic” contribution.
Today’s Egyptians want and need to cling to the astounding glory and achievements of a civilisation which has arguably made the greatest contribution to the birth of Western civilisation, for the greatness of Greece stands on the greatness of Ancient Egypt.
Many British Egyptologists laugh at Egyptian archaeologists in their back and ridicule them on occasion. But aside from “Imperial” Britain’s pro-Roman Empire political bias, one of the reasons they won’t openly insist on the Black Egypt thesis is because modern Egypt was a British colony, so “wokeness” commands guilt, pretence and silence.
However, they are not afraid at time to spout out what they know:
https://msafropolitan.com/2015/11/ancient-egypt-was-black-african.html
In human genetics, 1000 years is a quasi-undecipherable eternity; today’s Egyptian academics pretending to trace themselves back 5000 years is just pathetic.
Anyway, as I said, I have no horse in that race.
As a child, I developed a passion for Ancient Egypt, maybe for its mystery and aesthetics, I don’t know. My prejudice-free parents advised me to read the theories of Cheikh Anta Diop (unfortunately mostly in French). It was an intellectual shock on many fronts. His works were so comprehensive and encompassing that they had triggered the 1974 UNESCO global summit dedicated to the origins of ancient Egypt. Single-handedly, with the help of only another academic called Theophile Obenga, he blew his dozens of contradictors to smithereens. They simply had no arguments to oppose to his thesis, and this was recorded at the time in the proceedings.
Meanwhile, there has been no significant advance in the study of Egypt’s origins: the only “advance” is that the Iron Heel of censorship and abject intellectual mediocrity has fallen over us ever since the USSR, the West’s Hegelien dialectic adversary, has collapsed.
While the Western elite pretends to be woke (in order to use Blacks against Whites), it also carefully suppresses any narrative that might undermine its Roman-inspired imperial “legitimacy”. Other civilisations are deliberately undermined, their memory falsified, and achievements suppressed, even when such outstanding civilisations were European and Christian, as was Byzantium.
Your assessment is completely relevant. Sudan , like Egypt, is overwhelmingly Muslim, is undisputedly an Arab country, which main language is Arabic, and which is an all-time member of the Arab League. The fact that its inhabitants are Black in majority does not matter: being an Arab is not a race, it is a cultural belonging.
Thanks for the interesting info, stuff I didn’t know..
I think my confusion was with ‘occupied’ vs. ‘colonized’.
Every nation has been occupied, at one time or another, no?
From Norway to Germany to the U.S.
Today, the U.S. (and all Five Eyes nations) are occupied (dominated and controlled in absolute terms) by their worst enemy.
I have little time to spend replying to retarded comments. You always make yourself noticed for the wrong reasons, for instance when you insist against gazillions of rational objections presented to you that NASA must have gone to the Moon because NASA cannot lie. Your comments are as retarded as they are brazen: this can only be done on purpose.
For the benefit of those really interested, I will nevertheless reply to this point. Use your fat troll fingers and type “Nabta Playa” in a browser.
You will discover that the archaeological site of Nabta Playa dates back 10,000 BC, and is located in the Nubian Desert, only 100 km/60 miles West of the major Egyptian site of Abu Simbel, but as far as 800 km South of Cairo.
Around 10,000 BC, Nabta Playa was populated by people who kept cattle, ate cereals and made decorated ceramics. By the 7th millenary BC, they were living in large organised settlements. By 5,000 BC, they were worshipping the same divinities later found in Egypt’s cosmogony.
Nabta Playa comprised the oldest known astronomical observation site ever built: at 7000 years-old, it is older than Stonehenge.
The chronology goes like this: there was first Nabta Playa (10,000 to 5,000 BC) , then Upper Egypt 60 miles away (5,000 BC), and much later Lower Egypt further North, up the Nile river. Anybody with two neurones would understand that the chronology is also matching a causality.
Arabs conquered Egypt and converted many to Islam but they did not genocide the original Egyptians. Sure modern Egyptians, and even the ancient ones at various stages, were mixed, but so are most peoples. You picked Turkey as a wrong example. Why do you think they banned Turks from using DNA tests to check their ancestry? Because most of them are Greeks. Or rather Byzantines, who were also mixed with various people from their empire.
Certainly agree. But the original population that created the civilisation was later so much “peacefully” diluted by incoming migrations, following occupations, that contemporary DNA studies do not make any sense: the DNA resulting of multiple successive empires is not representative of the people who lived in the Upper Nile river 5,500 years back.
I think that this is what happened to Byzantium, too. Its traces almost disappeared because it was “naturally” demographically overwhelmed, not because its inhabitants were exterminated.
The Ottomans did not force the Greek minority to renounce its ethnicity or its religion, so not sure why they would hide being Greek. The Greek minority was small from the outset, but survived as such. Then came WW1, with the rise of nation-states and their search for national homogeneity. The Greek minority disappeared to Greece after the massive and voluntary exchange of population that happened in 1923, for which both Turkey and Greece were responsible.
The point I was making is that nobody today, neither the Turks, and nor the Greeks for that matter, goes bragging around and claiming that they are the only true genetic heirs of a brilliant civilisation which officially collapsed as late as 1453 AD. Yet, contemporary Egyptians simplistically do so for a civilisation which had already reached an apogee in 3,500 BCE. This is beyond ridiculous.
The Greeks who were expelled after the Greco-Turkish war were the Christian Greeks. Over the centuries, many Greeks and other inhabitants of former Byzantium had converted to Islam and identified themselves as Turks. You just have to look at Turks, few look like the Turkmen in Turkmenistan where they originated from and many closely resemble Greeks and others from the Balkans.
Modern Egyptians have no appreciation for their antiquity. Being Muslims, most of them have no respect for the pagan past and refer to all the monuments of antiquity as “haram”. They only see it useful in sofar that they can sell souvenirs and scam tourists. In fact it is the Egyptologists and the government that are serious about their past and help to preserve the monuments.
Modern Nubians have a grudge against Egypt because they were moved when the Aswan dam and Lake Nasser were built and they complain about discrimination. But Nubians definitely don’t have sub-Saharan physiognomic features and vary in skin tone from light to dark. Some look like Southern Europeans or Arabs with a very dark sun tan.
It’s not an issue of Europeans importing food. They grew it in places like Rhodesia and South Africa that in-turn fed the African population internally not externally. What held the African population in check in regards to its size was nature. It was only what the surrounding land and its resources could provide not what the Africans could grow out of the land.
You can post pictures of sculptures and pottery it still does not change the fact that Africans never developed sustainable agriculture to feed their own populations as they grew. And by all indications they never will. If you were to take all the food and medical aid that sub Saharan Africa receives from the developed world away nature would put the sub Saharan African population back in-line with famine, disease, and Africans killing each over what little food resources are available and cannibalizing each other for nutritional sustenance and survival. Nature would cull tens of millions or probably hundreds of millions of you within a year with all of sub Saharan Africa quarantined for the protection of the world.
Yes yes, we know Westerners are the real racists and Putin is the true multicultural leader of the future. I’m sure the Russian people him and his oligarchs have raped for a century are more than happy to import Africans to the Russian homeland. Gotta flank the negrolatrers in the West somehow!
I have to say, reading the comments here about the West from the Third Worldist commenters who hate Whites for their great success in war and conquest just makes me appreciate the West more. If only more White people read these comments, they would find the pride in their ancestors once again
The Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings do not portray Ancient Egyptians as black Africans.
In other words, “don’t bother me with facts, I already have my favorite belief”.
I have said what I have said. I leave the readers here to make up their own minds.
Good day to you, sir.
Time wounds all heels. The Roman Empire was very successful at war and conquest too. They even bragged, as you are doing, oderint dum metuant (let them hate so long as they fear). Where is this great empire now? The answer is, it’s gone, it has vanished into the pages of time (a lovely phrase by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad).
{..for their great success in war and conquest just makes me appreciate the West more.}
Would you show me your “great success in war and conquest” after you, US/Israel, killed 3000 Americans, your own citizens, in a false flag terror operation designed by these two states then framed Afghanistan on September 11, 2001?
Thanks for your very informative comments; they are much appreciated.
You should apply that to yourself and understand whatever argument you have put forth the fact remains that sub Saharan Africans never developed sustainable agriculture to feed their own growing populations in their history no matter their contact and interaction with Europeans. It’s not a case of them being farmers and stopped farming because of the Europeans. It’s that they were never farmers to begin with.
Good God, you crazed race-haters are so boring!!!
I bet you’re proud of Hitler, a good example of the White ubermensch and standard-bearer for ‘Western Civilization’, as well.
Exactly. When countries get into bother with Chinese loans, China re-negotiates the terms or forgives them. When Western private loans and IMF and World Bank loans go pear-shaped, the West rapes the country through forced ‘privatisations’ at fire-sale prices and ‘Structural Assistance Plans’ that destroy countries and fling the people into poverty. Then, with typically vicious hypocrisy, the West has the gall to FALSELY accuse China of ‘economic coercion’.
In view of the real events that unfolded over the past decades’, especially the debt crisis in Latin America and Asia, we can confidently affirm that (((Western))) loans go pear-shaped by design. The debt crisis are deliberately engineered to strip off countries from their most precious assets and infrastructures on the cheap.
British financial analyst Alasdair MacLeod:
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/the-bell-tolls-for-fiat
hey jerry, just got your response and i’m now catching up on my correspondences. i’m more convinced than ever, that you are trying desperately trying to work your way out of the pennsylvania penal system, https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/jerry-sandusky-denied-new-trial-appeal-lawyers-claim-new-evidence/
see you in the funny papers pop.
You can call sub Saharan Africans not having the ability to feed their own growing populations as being “racist” it doesn’t change it from being true. The truth is racist with people like yourself.
Pop goes the weasel???