SamsonSeinfelder , 11 months ago

The African leader apparently are not strong enough to speak up against Putin, as they are so deep in need of their private military companies. It is not even that the russian PMC are so great in logistics, equipment or strategy. It is just that the russian PMC are as ruthless and brutal as the african war lords who need them to butcher the people they deem to be enemies.

I think I will never in my lifetime see Africa as a free democratic continent, as long as autocratic/warmonger leader of african countries are cooperating with the lowest scum in the rest of the world. It is a match that will spiral that contintent (or at least those countries) further down the drain, but is continuing for 20-30 years some egomanic african leader to snort all the coke he wants, rape all the woman he wants and buy all the western luxus he wants. Nobody of them is interested in a positive long term goal for their nation or their people. They bleed their own people out and reject every transformation to a modern civil society. Homophobia might only be one ideology of many shackles, that bonds the sahel region to russia. The others are dehumanization, hate, lying, aggression, indoctrination, private gain, power, …