Why were you suspecting Russian or Chinese influence? In Africa they barely seem to care about political beliefs of local governments and stick to economic exploitation that is still not as bad as the west but that doesn’t make it okay.
well Chinese because they have been making mineral deals aplenty, loans of which are putting pressure on African governments. Russians because of their fighting in Mali and such, I figured perhaps this was a side effect.
true those are real bad things its just I’ve yet to see evidence of either doing any of the ideological work of the west they seem to mostly stay in their lane of economic exploitation.
Why were you suspecting Russian or Chinese influence? In Africa they barely seem to care about political beliefs of local governments and stick to economic exploitation that is still not as bad as the west but that doesn’t make it okay.
well Chinese because they have been making mineral deals aplenty, loans of which are putting pressure on African governments. Russians because of their fighting in Mali and such, I figured perhaps this was a side effect.
true those are real bad things its just I’ve yet to see evidence of either doing any of the ideological work of the west they seem to mostly stay in their lane of economic exploitation.
absolutely true, I have no evidence that they do or would. That was just the first direction my mind went to, which is telling… 🙃