The fight for dominance over the world’s main mineral sources is raging. As expected, this struggle is most intense in the places where the accumulation of wealth is most felt: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The problem is that this fight is moving the tectonic plates, causing panic among the pro-USA/NATO/EU hosts.
The deepening of relations between China and the countries of the global South and Africa, in particular, accompanied by Russia’s intervention on the African continent, initiating an effective fight against terrorism, the same terrorism that justified, for almost 20 years, the presence of missions of the European Union and the USA on the continent, has been causing a wave of despair and recrimination across the situationist and pro-Hegemonic political spectrum.
The Russian military presence — through Russian African Corps — in several African countries (Burkina-Faso, Mali, Chad, Libya, Sudan, Mozambique, Central African Republic), has raised, from the political parties from the center, center-right and neoliberal right, of the European political spectrum, a whole set of recriminations, the latest being that Russia is “aligning dictatorships” in Africa. This accusation coming from European politicians who have always been aligned with neocolonialism and imperialism, is almost caricatured, if it weren’t tragic. Making us believe that the dictatorship in Africa arrives, in the 21st century, with the arrival of Russia on the ground, after the west’s 500 years of plundering, enslaving, occupying, corrupting, conditioning and exploiting the continent…. It says a lot about why the collective West is not able to find its place in today’s world.
Portugal failed, as the European Union fails, as the USA fails, to see, in the multipolar world, a world without indispensable nations, its future, our future.
THE OVAL CIRCLE
Teresa Ng
The deepening of relations between China and the countries of the global South and Africa, in particular, accompanied by Russia’s intervention on the African continent, initiating an effective fight against terrorism, the same terrorism that justified, for almost 20 years, the presence of missions of the European Union and the USA on the continent, has been causing a wave of despair and recrimination across the situationist and pro-Hegemonic political spectrum.
The Russian military presence — through Russian African Corps — in several African countries (Burkina-Faso, Mali, Chad, Libya, Sudan, Mozambique, Central African Republic), has raised, from the political parties from the center, center-right and neoliberal right, of the European political spectrum, a whole set of recriminations, the latest being that Russia is “aligning dictatorships” in Africa. This accusation coming from European politicians who have always been aligned with neocolonialism and imperialism, is almost caricatured, if it weren’t tragic. Making us believe that the dictatorship in Africa arrives, in the 21st century, with the arrival of Russia on the ground, after the west’s 500 years of plundering, enslaving, occupying, corrupting, conditioning and exploiting the continent…. It says a lot about why the collective West is not able to find its place in today’s world.
Portugal failed, as the European Union fails, as the USA fails, to see, in the multipolar world, a world without indispensable nations, its future, our future.