Posted on 08/01/2023 8:20:14 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
This week, a diplomat at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the collective defence alliance between Europe and North America, hinted the organisation will raise its engagement with Africa, ostensibly to ward off the growing influence on the continent of China and Russia. Russia through the controversial paramilitary company Wagner Group — is now operating in various African states.
The idea is to foster improved bilateral relations on security, anti-terrorism efforts and in other fields of cooperation, all in a “pivot to Africa.”On Wednesday, Julianne Smith, US Permanent Representative to Nato, told an African media briefing that the defence alliance already had “over 40 countries” outside that mutual defence treaty — across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia — with which it has “special partnerships”.
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Niger, pretty much the only major Uranium producer we would still do business with, finally had enough of the West, and has flipped to ‘The Dark Side’.
So that’s about it for Western nuclear power.
Russia has blown the doors off of the West diplomatically in Africa. No one paid attention to the Russia Africa Summit in St. Petersburg last week until 49 of 54 countries showed up to tout the burgeoning relationship between Russia, BRICS and Africa. Read the final communique, pretty lovey dovey, anti Western imperialist stuff. The Africans understand that their only reliable source of future cheap, abundant food and energy is Russia and BRIChinaS. They can’t rely on the woke, green, bug eating West.
NATO collectively appears to have learned nothing in the last 75 years or so. They seem to have decided to follow an obsolete cold war playbook, where competing power blocs win friends and influence people with financial largesse. But ever since the Nonaligned Nations movement of the late fifties, so-called third world countries, or developing countries, understand how to play off each side against the other.
NATO’s case isn’t helped by the fact that the EU, the World Bank, The IMF, all have tried to control African nations by refusing to fund fossil fuel development so these countries can begin to have viable economies. The EU is willing to fund wind turbines somewhere in the veldt where there is no grid to connect with, but they won’t fund an oil pipeline so a struggling nation can export oil to the outside world.
Trust me, Africans can see these guys coming a mile away, and they really don’t like them much.
A little late. Probably too late, unless the US pays twice what China has offered.
The GloboHomo/Ukraine supporters here said the Russian African summit was a flop. Like virtually everything they post here, the truth was the opposite.
EU-Latin American summit was a flop indeed.
They look up from their media masters feeding trough only long enough to tell us what’s been shoveled into their slop buckets.
Are you saying that between the US and Russia there aren’t enough bombs to destroy the earth? We need more yellowcake from Niger?
This is amusing. Just how do our supposed intelligence folk actually work for a living?
If anyone followed sputnik africa, Russia has been booming in many African countries for close to a year.
Russian language centers being built all over Africa, Orthodox churches (Orthodox Africa on fb), Mobile medical centers (100 to be sent by Polymed Prof in the next few months), Malawi and Burkina Faso are getting ports, airports, and railroads with the help of Russia - right now, Traore is getting weapons to fight terrorists from Russia, Lavrov was awarded Commander of the National Order Of Mali ( a second batch of military aircraft was given to Mali in Jan), Lavrov was in Angola shortly after the song Katyuska was banned in the baltics - two schoolgirls sang it for him in Russian, Lavrov also made a trip to Eritrea and held talks with them months ago. That should do for a start.
Algeria will be admitted to BRICS this month and they are stepping up to promote Russia to the rest of Africa.
Cooperation With Russia ‘Will Help Us Liberate Ourselves,’ Zambian Official Says
https://en.sputniknews.africa/20230802/1060998330.html
Bolivia’s BRICS Bid: ‘US Will Think Twice Before Grotesquely Intervening in Internal Affairs’
“We need more yellowcake from Niger?”
Yep, since it decays. Also we have nuke power plants but most of the Ukraine War supporters would prefer to seen them closed.
Can’t we get our yellowcake from the Russian owned mines in Canada?
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