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[Bawon Samedi]

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Russia Expands Its Game Plan in Africa

Sep 25, 2019

• The upcoming Africa summit in Sochi, Russia, will provide Moscow with a platform to formally establish its diplomatic efforts on a pan-African scale for the first time.
• Because of its financial constraints, Moscow is less likely to lure African states with large investments.
• Instead, Moscow will focus on providing mutually beneficial cooperation in the fields of security, resource extraction and nuclear power.
• This cross-continent effort will build on the bilateral African relationships Russia developed in the Soviet era, and has since maintained through military support and information campaigns.

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Russia Expands Its Game Plan in Africa

Good read. The Sahel can really benefit from Russia's security aid.

 

[loyola llothta]

Trump's presidency is actually the best thing to have happened to the African continent in that the US isn't as overtly involved in the continent hence you have players like Japan and Russia looking to make inroads.

However, I don't think the African leaders have seized the opportunity like they should have.

When you have two parties making deals, then you should be getting a better offer than when you are negotiating with just one party.

Russia, China, Japan etc offer a different flavour than the UK, US and France - the incumbents if you will.

Russia is definitely looking to make military inroads, however, INDUSTRIALIZATION must be the top priority when it comes to negotiations for the African countries.

The goal for the 2020s should be an industrialized Africa. Of course that'll be tough because if Africa is industrialized, then there's more competition for mineral resources.

I agree but unlike those other nations Russia seem to be restricted in money investment. They cant compete with the billions $ of China is loaning to África for infrastructures and other projects. i do think Russia can add security , military strength, logistics, nuclear power, and help balance african nations.

Also the most important advantage Africa have just like asia is human capital. Young and ready to put in work

Industrialize Africa is the AU main goal but with all the environment and climate change talk, it seem to me that will slow down Africa industrialization

 

[phcitywarrior]

I agree but unlike those other nations it seem Russia seem to be restricted in money investment. They cant compete with the billions $ of China is loaning to África for infrastructures and other projects. i do think Russia can add security , military strength, logistics, nuclear power, and help balance african nations.

Also the most important advantage Africa have just like asia is human capital. Young and ready to put in work

Industrialize Africa is the AU main goal but with all the environment and climate change talk, it seem to me that will slow down Africa industrialization

True, but there haven't been firm policies put in place. Just a lot of talk. If the powers that be want to address climate change in Africa then it's either they make the investments in clean energy in Africa or hush up.

AU can't compromise on industrialization.

 

[loyola llothta]

Yeah, hell the 2020s might be the last decade where industrialization for Africa would be "relatively" easy.

Competition wise.. The west would be the problem. Because I don't see the Russians/Chinese/Non-westerns causing any coups/colored revolutions.
But you already know the west is gonna pull some shyt..

Same question. with all the global climate strike

do you think the west lastest environmentalist and climate change celebrity movement they been pushing is going to hinder the industrialization of Africa?

 

[loyola llothta]

This sounds a BIT optimistic..
Could Africa Be the Next Financial Frontier?
Could Africa Be the Next Financial Frontier?

@Frangala @loyola llothta I personally feel that the DRC should partner up with Russia to clear out the Eastern Congo once and for all. A stable DRC is very good. Very good and for everyone(minus Kagame). @loyola llothta didn't read the Russia summit article you just posted yet.

Edit:

The DRC should sign with China's belt and road initiative.

I thought russia did some military partnership with them

 

[Frangala]

This sounds a BIT optimistic..
Could Africa Be the Next Financial Frontier?
Could Africa Be the Next Financial Frontier?

@Frangala @loyola llothta I personally feel that the DRC should partner up with Russia to clear out the Eastern Congo once and for all. A stable DRC is very good. Very good and for everyone(minus Kagame). @loyola llothta didn't read the Russia summit article you just posted yet.

Edit:

The DRC should sign with China's belt and road initiative.

I wouldn't be so quick to partner with Russia until I see how it plays out with our neighbors in the North which is the the Central African Republic (CAR) where Russia operatives are doing business there which is essentially an exchange for natural resources and security/armed forces training in addition to arm sales.

 

[Red Shield]

Same question. with all the global climate strike

do you think the west lastest environmentalist and climate change celebrity movement they been pushing is going to hinder the industrialization of Africa?

If this was 10yrs ago... sure it would have hindered things.


But now? I don't see it hindering anything. No one outside of the west/usa cares about any of this environmental climate change celebrity shyt.

It's obvious to anyone paying just a little attention, that if this climate change shyt was so important.. that the west would change it's habits. The west doesn't and instead points the finger at non-western nations. So any nation paying attention is gonna KNOW the west is completely full of shyt about this..


Now for Africa, you've got a current awakening... So an increasing amount of Africans are already at or coming to the conclusion of what I just wrote above.



There are things that can/could hinder industrialization of Africa... but I don't see this climate change movement being it.

 

[loyola llothta]

If this was 10yrs ago... sure it would have hindered things.


But now? I don't see it hindering anything. No one outside of the west/usa cares about any of this environmental climate change celebrity shyt.

It's obvious to anyone paying just a little attention, that if this climate change shyt was so important.. that the west would change it's habits. The west doesn't and instead points the finger at non-western nations. So any nation paying attention is gonna KNOW the west is completely full of shyt about this..


Now for Africa, you've got a current awakening... So an increasing amount of Africans are already at or coming to the conclusion of what I just wrote above.



There are things that can/could hinder industrialization of Africa... but I don't see this climate change movement being it.

I hope but it seems the west is planning this new method to control and stop developing nations.

You have Dems talking about a green green deal . Macron talking about the need to stop transport companies using the Northern sea route. Eco- strike or Eco- fascist.. Seem to me they dont want certain developing nations to benefit from the industrial revolution. Almost feel like a green mashall plan


I dont see the AU fighting back against the West operations ..... Just look at the last few months with Ghana and Nigéria backtracking on aggression against the US

 

[Red Shield]

I hope but it seems the west is planning this new method to control and stop developing nations.

You have Dems talking about a green green deal . Macron talking about the need to stop transport companies using the Northern sea route. Eco- strike or Eco- fascist.. Seem to me they dont want certain developing nations to benefit from the industrial revolution. Almost feel like a green mashall plan


I dont see the AU fighting back against the West operations ..... Just look at the last few months with Ghana and Nigéria backtracking on aggression against the US

With out a doubt this green initiative stuff is the west's new method. Telling nations to use solar energy, wind farms, all that junk. It won't work though. Hell you got countries shipping the wests garbage back to the west.


That green new deal is dead, hell only a section of the "non-establishment" dem's believe in it


The northern sea route is Russia's, and you already know the Chinese are gonna help em with that. What france/macron want about that, is irrelevant. And france would need the usa's help in that matter anyway, and well.. the usa is not going to be doing anything about that.

I agree with you about the AU. About Nigeria and Ghana, I don't see those two countries leading the charge/fighting back against any western aggression. Hell I don't think any west African nation would... right now anyway. I can definitely see a east African or southern African nation doing so tho. Those parts of Africa seem more serious about the future.

 

[loyola llothta]

Environmentalism’s Racist History

Immigration Act of 1924, which restricted immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe and Africa and banned migrants from the Middle East and Asia. Adolf Hitler wrote Grant an admiring letter, calling the book “my Bible,” which has given it permanent status on the ultra-right. Anders Breivik, the Norwegian extremist who killed sixty-nine young Labour Party members, in 2011, drew on Grant’s racial theory in his own manifesto.

Grant’s fellow conservationists supported his racist activism. Roosevelt wrote Grant a letter praising “The Passing of the Great Race,” which appeared as a blurb on later editions, calling it “a capital book; in purpose, in vision, in grasp of the facts our people most need to realize.” Henry Fairfield Osborn, who headed the New York Zoological Society and the board of trustees of the American Museum of Natural History (and, as a member of the U.S. Geological Survey, named the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Velociraptor), wrote a foreword to the book. Osborn argued that “conservation of that race which has given us the true spirit of Americanism is not a matter either of racial pride or of racial prejudice; it is a matter of love of country.”

For Grant, Roosevelt, and other architects of the country’s parks and game refuges, wild nature was worth saving for its aristocratic qualities; where these were lacking, they were indifferent. Grant, as his Times obituary noted, “was uninterested in the smaller forms of animal or bird life.” He wrote about the moose, the mountain goat, and the redwood tree, whose nobility and need for protection in a venal world so resembled the plight of Grant’s “Nordics” that his biographer, Jonathan Spiro, concludes that he saw them as two faces of a single threatened, declining aristocracy. Similarly, Roosevelt, in his accounts of hunting, could not say enough about the “lordly” and “noble” elk and buffalo that he and Grant helped to preserve, and loved to kill. Their preservation work aimed to keep alive this kind of encounter between would-be aristocratic men and halfway wild nature.

For these conservationists, who prized the expert governance of resources, it was an unsettlingly short step from managing forests to managing the human gene pool. In a 1909 report to Roosevelt’s National Conservation Commission, Yale professor Irving Fisher broke off from a discussion of public health to recommend preventing “paupers” and physically unhealthy people from reproducing, and warned against the “race suicide” that would follow if the country did not replenish itself with Northern European stock. Fisher took the term “race suicide” from Roosevelt, who, in a 1905 speech, had pinned it on women who dodged childbearing. Gifford Pinchot, the country’s foremost theorizer and popularizer of conservation, was a delegate to the first and second International Eugenics Congress, in 1912 and 1921, and a member of the advisory council of the American Eugenics Society, from 1925 to 1935.

Roosevelt put Pinchot in charge of the National Conservation Commission, and made him head of the new Forest Service, but he also cultivated the Romantic naturalist John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club in 1892. In the Sierra Club’s early leaders, the environmental movement has some less troubling ancestors. Following Muir, whose bearded face and St. Francis-like persona were as much its icons as Yosemite Valley, the club adopted the gentle literary romanticism of Thoreau, Emerson, and Wordsworth. The point of preserving wild places, for these men—and, unlike in Roosevelt’s circles, some women—was to escape the utilitarian grind of lowland life and, as Muir wrote, to see the face of God in the high country.

 

[loyola llothta]

 

[loyola llothta]

The former president of Benin said that Boko Haram -- the mass-murdering Salafi-jihadist group that later became the Islamic State in West Africa -- has been funded by Western proxies Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

They also supported ISIS in Syria and Iraq.https://beninwebtv.com/en/2019/10/nicephore-soglo-boko-haram-is-funded-by-saudi-arabia-and-qatar/ …

 

[Secure Da Bag]

The irony.

 

[reasonable_doubter]

True, but there haven't been firm policies put in place. Just a lot of talk. If the powers that be want to address climate change in Africa then it's either they make the investments in clean energy in Africa or hush up.

AU can't compromise on industrialization.

They dont have to deal with the negatives tbh... they can learn from other regions that have industrialized....


......but africa is wide open for experimentation....

 

[phcitywarrior]

BBC Africa documentary that was posted in one of my group chats. Blown the lid on an open secret. I just wish it was a Nigerian media outlet that composed this documentary instead.