Source: karlof1.substack.com
Veteran War Correspondent Marat Khairullen’s insights have been shared here before. I read this at his Telegram yesterday morning and knew it was a scoop but that the other events demanded to be covered first and were. Now a very interesting thing occurred between yesterday and today—yesterday I had no issues with my inbuilt translation software doing its work, and I kept the tab with it open continually in the event I’d have time to make it into an article before I retired; however, today that one section of his Telegram would not automatically translate although everything else did: Why is a very good question. Now, his report was also aired in an audio format on the 13th at this URL. As you’ll see, I was able to translate the entire 11,000+ words.
Now, I’ve been following Russia’s African policy for many years going back to the Cold War and African independence movements of the 1960s that had Soviet support and recently, roughly 2014, began following what it was doing there along with China. The Gym’s archive contains a few items I’ve provided about Africa beginning in July 2023, with this major article “What’s Happening in Niger and Why?”, but I haven’t delved into the deeper aspects of Russian or Chinese African policy. In that regard, Marat’s contribution is outstanding and explains some of the behavior we see from the West, Macron specifically. African leaders are very upfront about their being well beyond sick & tired of Western exploitation and its continuous stream of lies that facilitate the West’s continuing plunder. Now Russia has reentered the fray along with China, and both are standing their ground and telling the West no more, which of course the West can’t handle because it’s addicted to pleonexia and megalomania. That’s enough of a preamble for Marat’s fine presentation that follows:…