🌍 Sanctions on African children are like carpet bombing, just another useful weapon in NATO’s arsenal of democracy, which can be unleashed against impoverished upstarts when needed.

No matter whether Algeria, Russia, China, Iran, Uganda and Niger like it or not, that is the nature of the amoral beast they are dealing with. The problem then is to mitigate sanctions’ effects and, if possible, turn them on their heads.

The idea here would be that Algeria, China, Russia and allied nations would distribute, say, $1 billion of aid over a number of years of standarised packages of a narrow range of basic goods across the Sahel. These goods would consist of grain and other basic foods, cooking oil, generic medicines, hygiene, baby products and so on.

Russia has made a generous offer to Africa with its grain. Though that is a good start, it is only half the work 🤲

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#Africa #Sahel #Mali #Niger #Algeria #Uganda #colonialism

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🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina is governed as a neo-colonial backwater, which is the status that Gabon, Niger, and Burkina Faso had until recently. The difference is that lately the Africans have been making concerted efforts to throw off their yoke. By contrast, in Bosnia many seem happy to be yoked, with the notable exception of the Republic of Srpska, which for quite some time has been the Niger of the Balkans.

And that is fundamentally the reason why, like Niger, it is now targeted 🎯

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#Balkans #Bosnia #colonialism #HumanRights #RepublikaSrpska

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🪩 Isn’t it a tad naïve to expect the West to recant its stealth colonialism?

Western primacy hangs on the pillars of the threat of financial and sanctions war; the monopoly of tech patents, regulatory standards and protocols, and in holding and keeping a global ‘technological edge’. Does Prime Minster Modi truly think that the West can be induced simply to relinquish these assets because the Global South asks it?

It seems ‘a stretch’ (though no doubt Xi and Putin have explained some of these financial ‘facts of life’ to Modi).

Is it happenstance that a quiet financial war, triggered by the drip-drip of de-dollarisation and higher energy costs, might finally give BRICS the leverage to coerce a change of policy in the West? And should western reluctance to re-structure persist, might the BRICS leadership ratchet higher? The newly expanded BRICS, after all, is now a Commodity Powerhouse.

So, who now controls inflation in the U.S.: A trapped Fed, or the new commodity king? 👑

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#colonialism #West #BRICS

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🇲🇦🇩🇿🇬🇧 As Britain races towards the poles with a general election almost certain to topple the Conservative party in power, regional analysts will be speculating what impact, if any, a Labour party in Downing Street will have in the MENA region.

For North Africa, the apple cart is probably going to be upset, in particular, when Algeria and Morocco are put under the microscope. A Labour government in Downing Street is almost certainly not going to be a supporter of Morocco’s sovereignty claims over Western Sahara as Labour have friends in Algeria and some of its figures even openly support the Polisario. Without any doubt, within days of being in power Labour will want to make some token statement to Rabat which the latter is not going to take very well and so a recalibration of diplomatic relations will follow. To be fair, the so-called special relationship between Rabat and London wasn’t really what it was hyped to be by both sides. It was a special relationship which both sides aspired to, dreamed about and hoped for in the future.

In reality, the UK was hoping for Morocco to buy UK arms while Morocco was hoping for mega investments in Western Sahara.

💬 Martin Jay writes

#Morocco #Algeria #NorthAfrica #MENA #UK #colonialism

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