South Africa defends planned military drills with Russia and China

https://www.reuters.com/ ^ | January 23, 2023 | By Carien Duplessis

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PRETORIA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - South Africa's foreign minister on Monday deflected criticism of joint military drills planned with Russia and China, saying that hosting such exercises with "friends" was the "natural course of relations."

Naledi Pandor made her comments during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who was visiting South Africa 11 months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A South African official, who declined to be identified because they were not authorised to speak, said Lavrov would afterwards visit Eswatini, Botswana and Angola.

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Link for Napoleon Booze

[Quentin Quarantino]

South Africa becoming Zimbabwe becoming Brazil becoming California.

Not groovy.

Newsome/Pressley 2024!

[MMusson]

The USA will learn a shedload of information on Russian and Chinese practices from these wargames.

[Gay State Conservative]

Although I've traveled South Africa...recently...I can't,and won't,claim to be an expert. However,what I've seen of it (and other parts of Africa) says to me that apart from a few pockets of Western affluence it's basically a Third World cesspool with elephants. So it's not surprising that China would move in.

If Africans think that being colonized by Europeans was bad...wait until they feel China's boot heel!!