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The Global Majority is free to choose two different paths to counteract the rabid, cognitive dissonant Straussian neocon psychos in charge of imperial foreign policy; to relentlessly ridicule them, or to work hard on the long and winding road leading to a new multipolar reality.
Reality struck deep at the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, with its astonishing breadth and scope, reflected in the
official declaration and key facts such as
Russia writing off no less than $23 billion in African debt, and President Putin calling for Africa to enter the G20 and the UNSC ("It's time to correct this historical injustice.")
Three interventions in St. Petersburg summarize the pan-African drive to finally get rid of exploitative neocolonialism.
President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki: "They are printing money. They are not manufacturing anything at all, it's printing money. This has been one of their weapons globally - the monetary system... sanctions here, sanctions there... We need a new financial architecture globally."
President of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, the face of a resurgent Global South and the world's youngest leader: "A slave that does not rebel does not deserve pity. The African Union (AU) must stop condemning Africans who decide to fight against their own puppet regimes of the West."
President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni: "One facet of neo-colonialism and colonialism was Africa being confined to producing only raw materials, crops, like coffee, and minerals (...) This issue is the biggest factor why the
African economies are stunted; they do not grow, because all the value is taken by other people (...) So, what I want to propose to Russia and China is to discourage as a policy the importing of raw materials from Africa, to instead work with the Africans to add value at source."
In a nutshell: pan-Africa should go all-out creating their own brands and value-added products, without waiting for "approval" from the West.
Comment: And, with good reason, it seems that there's a significant contingent of citizens in Africa who, along with their officials, see relations with Russia as a positive influence in their future:
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