Rat u Ukrajini

Mór Thököly wrote:Zakazao taj u sredini

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia casts himself as the leader of a global movement rising up against domination by the United States and its allies. On Sunday, his top diplomat will bring that message directly to Africa, hoping to turn the hunger and social strife across the continent to Russia’s advantage.
Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has made it clear that he will use the trip to try to pin the blame on the West for food shortages in African countries and to paint Russia as the continent’s faithful ally.
"We know that the African colleagues do not approve of the undisguised attempts of the U.S. and their European satellites to gain the upper hand, and to impose a unipolar world order to the international community,” Mr. Lavrov wrote in an article published in newspapers in the four countries he will visit — Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of Congo.
In his article, Mr. Lavrov praised African leaders for resisting Western pressure to join the sanctions against Russia. “Such an independent path deserves deep respect,” he wrote.
But Mr. Putin’s message has been complicated by the fact that Ukraine has been unable to export its grain by sea since the beginning of the war, and that Russian officials have not shied away from using the threat of starvation in developing countries as a bargaining chip.
Murithi Mutiga, the Africa program director for the International Crisis Group, said Russia had several advantages as it sought to win hearts and minds on the continent: a network of elites that studied in the Soviet Union, the “lingering loyalty” of groups it supported in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, and the fact that it supplies arms to numerous African governments.
“Moscow will, however, be disappointed if it expects more African governments to offer it full backing,” Mr. Mutiga said. “The overwhelming instinct among authorities on the continent is to remain nonaligned and to stay out of the confrontation between Russia and the West.

Uncle Baby Billy wrote:ko pobeđuje i kad će kraj

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A ta dilema postaje utoliko veća ukoliko se u obzir uzme „spoljni”, tj. zapadni, NATO–SAD faktor, koji je zapravo glavni generator i podstrekač ovog sukoba, a koji pogotovo neće lako pristati na bilo šta što iole liči i miriše na rusku pobedu.