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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Geopolitics : News and discussion@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 days ago

Putin is wooing Africa - and the feeling is mutual | CNN

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Putin is wooing Africa - and the feeling is mutual | CNN

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Russia is seeking allies and expanding its influence abroad as its war in Ukraine drags on. African governments, meanwhile, are cozying up to the Kremlin for reasons of their own.
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    My memory might be hazy on this but didn’t the Soviet Union send a bunch of no strings attached aid to African nations back in the day?

    There was also the recurrent but accurate Soviet propaganda line that the US was lynching black people.

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      there is indeed a long history of USSR helping Africa https://journal-neo.su/2024/06/20/the-aid-from-the-ussr-and-the-russian-federation-offered-to-africa-is-immense-and-benevolent/

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    And?? Those in the imperial core have no moral high ground to criticize the alliances nonwestern countries form.

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      The West forcing Russia to turn towards the Global South has been an unarguably a positive side effect of the proxy war.

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