South Africa's naval exercise with Russia, China raises Western alarm

Reuters ^ | February 17, 2023 | Carien du Plessis, Nick Macfie

[Paul R.]

They should have listened.

The ANC is one of the world’s most incompetent governments at everything except corruption and racism, at which they excel, with the predictable results to what was once a prosperous country.

A perfect hook up (2023 meaning) for China and Russia.

[bitt]

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[AndyJackson]

Seems to me like their Rolodex is growing,

The collapse of an overextended empire whose leadership threatens half the world and pisses off the other half, can be very swift indeed. The prototypical example was the collapse of the Athenian empire in the Peloponnesian war. Although Syracuse was tangential to their power Athenian prestige and might dictated that they take it. Instead they lost their Navy and their collapse was swift.

The US has become soft, corrupt, incompetent, and ever more grasping to rip off the rest of the world for ever more stuff. We had it coming.