Posted on 07/29/2023 7:31:30 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The chairman of the African Union said on July 28 that proposals by Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide grain to Africa were insufficient.
In a closing address to a Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, Azali Assoumani also said that a cease-fire is necessary in Ukraine.
Putin earlier told the African leaders that Russia was ready to supply Africa with grain, some of it for free, after refusing last week to extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative before it expired. The deal, brokered last year by the United Nations and Turkey, allowed Ukraine to export grain safely from Black Sea ports despite the war.
The global price of grain has soared since Russia withdrew and since it subsequently began bombing Ukrainian grain export facilities.
Russia wants to provide 25,000 to 50,000 tons of grain for free in the next three to four months, Putin told the African leaders on July 27. Zimbabwe, Mali, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Eritrea, and the Central African Republic are to receive the grain.
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they don’t know how to do modern farming methods at scale.
“I need a vacation. Hey Hon, how about two weeks in Mogadishu?”
“I was thinking Monrovia...”
I don’t know anything about calculating IQs and to be perfectly honest, I bet it’s a BS metric. Was was Jesus’ IQ. Silly to ask right, because it doesn’t matter.
Neither do but I’m sure with time and incentive I could figure it out. Also, it’s not clear to me why people there who own 60 acres couldn’t grow SOMETHING and not starve. Also, is no one willing to teach them modern farming?
There's no money in that.
There’s always Minneapolis if you’re seeking a Somali experience.
The average IQ in Africa does matter.
There’s a reason Africa is the way it is, and a reason Europe is the way it is.
Sounds awesome. The descendants of Vikings sure seem to be self loathing Socialists.
Maybe I can be an outsider in Japan.
They’re racist, but polite about it.
I just can’t watch their cartoons, weird stuff going on…
Again, calling BS. History doesn’t start with modern Europe. The mathematics that are used to design modern buildings were just as practiced in ancient Egypt, Kush as examples. The European ravaging of Africa also has a role in why Africa is how it is. 99 year BS contracts and the like. Black people have the capability, when trained to be among the best surgeons and architects in the world. “Europe” isn’t doing great if you haven’t noticed. Is your argument that the Eiffel Tower is much more of a feat than the Sphinx? You think race answers everything but in so thinking you show yourself to be quite ignorant of history, from my perspective.
Egyptians aren’t black. I should have clarified African to mean Negro.
Name a race with a lower IQ.
Tiny sample sizes are irrelevant statistically speaking.
Intelligent people understand that the variance within a group will always be greater than the variance between the groups.
You perspective is that of the self loathing cuck.
Enjoy your life. In fact, move to any black neighborhood on Earth.
Good luck.
Egyptians aren’t black NOW. The preponderance of evidence strongly suggest they were 5k years ago (and during that time somehow they convinced Pharoah that a blond haired blue eye child was his and was to become king...). Really no need for name calling, I’ve treated you respectfully. Those “black” neighborhoods are probably poor. Is there a poor neighborhood in the country that doesn’t have problems with crime and poor infrastructure? Race isn’t the only variable.
Keep making excuses for blacks, they’re going to need them.
Wagner is mostly plundering Africas natural resources - gold.
In return, they give “protection” to the local dictators from being put down buy their local populations.
Or... they secretly help to foment coups against sitting African presidents the Kremlin do not like.
Ancient Egyptians have a lower proportion of sub-Saharan DNA than modern Egyptians.
Well, they still haven’t grasped the concept of digging their own latrines. Or maybe they’re smart enough to let someone else do it for them.
Send Prince Harry and the Harpy to help them out. Even Gov. Newsom blocked her number this week, LOLOLOLOL, breath, LOLOLOL, breath, LOLOLOLOL!
Africans want “free” bread from the Russians?
I've long wondered, with a view to large swathes of London and parts of the rest of the UK sold to oil sheiks and Russian oligarchs...money is easily moved, real estate sits where it is.
Imagine at some point the Tories hand over to Labour, and Labour just nationalizes all that real estate. They've taken the money, and now they've got the land back too. Labour can then hand matters back to the Tories, who tell Ali and Igor, "tough luck."
Would be a good play for the Ukes as well.
We are in agreement that in time something like this has to happen, but I balk slightly at the notion that the Ukrainians in their current condition are any kind of equivalence with the Zelensky government. (anymore than are conservatives in any kind of equivalence with the corrupt Biden government).
In time I suspect a next Ukrainian government will look at all the massive multi-national ownership (or at least control) of Uke lands, and give them the boot.
An odd thing seems to be happening, as multi-nationals are acting something like their own "nations" and thinking buying up other nations' assets is a good strategy. Short term it would seem so. Long term, I suspect it is merely the fodder for the next set of revolutions / wars.
Additionally, if Russia gains a somewhat permanent upper hand and if Zelensky then decides he wants to take big money and live in Switzerland or Florida, a nest Ukrainian government could legally pursue based on such issues, The notion of nationalism and the complimentary notion of fiduciary responsibility will arise, I have no doubt.
The world is changing, and for that the political world is changing. So does it seem to me. Best wishes.
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