Posted on 07/23/2023 7:16:59 PM PDT by hardspunned
The second Russia-Africa Summit will take place in St Petersburg’s Expo Forum from 27-28 July 2023, with leaders from the majority of African countries expected to attend. The Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum due to take place alongside it will provide a platform for business meetings and includes a programme of more than 30 panel sessions and thematic events.
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If they’re in St. Pete this Thurs/Fri, they’re going to miss seeing the Rays, who will be in Houston against the Astros. The way the Rays have been playing this month, that might not matter.
Oh, never mind...
What is this year’s theme, Screw America?
It is obviously clear that no African has bought into the Western grain deal narrative. It was handled so incompetent that most Africans hate the West at this point.
It was advertised as the way to prevent Putin from starving Africans, Putin has offered Africans free grain and fertilizer on terms that the West lifts the sanctions on Russian shipping.
In the end the sanctions weren’t lifted and no free grain and fertilizers arrived from Russia which is evidently a Western fault.
Of the Ukrainian grain, only 2,8% arrived to Africa, and most ended up in Spain, crashing the price and bankrupt in local farmers at the same time.
I mean the entire plot is so dim-witted in terms of reputational damage for the West as if Putin himself plotted it.
“Screw America”? No, that’s the ongoing policy from the oligarchs in DC.
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