The US Delusionally Denied That It’s Competing With Russia In Africa

All African countries are confident in the knowledge that strategically partnering with Russia enables them to ensure their objective national interests and thus fully complete their decolonization processes, which is why so many of them are eagerly embracing that Eurasian Great Power in spite of American pressure to distance themselves from it.

US Ambassador to the UN Thomas-Greenfield delusionally denied during her visit to Africa that America is competing with Russia and China there. She claimed that “We are not catching up. They are catching up”, though the truth is that her country’s influence has dramatically declined there since the start of the year. Even though some African states voted against Russia at the UN, not a single one has formally sanctioned that Eurasian Great Power despite immense pressure upon them by the US to do so.

Furthermore, African Union Chairman Macky Sall agreed with President Putin in early June that the West’s anti-Russian sanctions are responsible for the food crisis, and the overwhelmingly vast majority of African leaders snubbed Zelensky later that month when he addressed the bloc by video. Not only that, but Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov just visited the continent, met with AU diplomats in Ethiopia, and was heartily embraced after promising to help them fully complete their decolonization processes.

It also deserves mentioning that Russia’s “Democratic Security” model that it perfected in the Central African Republic and has since exported to Mali and other African states has enabled them to counter the West’s Hybrid War threats, ensure their sovereignty, and thus play a greater role in multipolarity. On the topic of Mali, that geostrategically positioned state in the center of France’s self-declared “sphere of influence” in West Africa has recently emerged as a Russian-backed pioneer in fighting neo-imperialism.

Moscow has therefore managed to push back against Washington in Africa on all fronts, especially the security one, both in terms of how this concept is traditionally understood as well as with respect to food security too. The US’ ongoing information warfare campaign against it has dramatically failed, which speaks to the strategic progress that Russia has made across the continent as well as the genuine sovereignty of its over fifty countries.

Denying that the US is competing with Russia there is thus nothing more than a “face-saving” claim intended to downplay that aforementioned strategic progress that’s occurring at the expense of the US’ rapidly declining hegemony over International Relations. Thomas-Greenfield can’t acknowledge this competition since that would extend credence to Russia’s full-spectrum gains across Africa, which would in turn draw attention to America’s full-spectrum setbacks.

Nevertheless, no one should doubt that the US is obsessed with restoring its lost influence there, as is France. The first-mentioned failed in its Western-backed TPLF-driven Hybrid War on Terror against Ethiopia that’s been waged since November 2020 as punishment for that civilization-state’s principled neutrality in the US’ New Cold War against Russia and China but is likely in the process of plotting similar schemes elsewhere.

The second, meanwhile, is suspected of backing those Al Qaeda-connected terrorists in Mali that just declared war on Russia. What’s interesting to note is that both Western Great Powers are waging proxy wars against Russia on opposite sides of Africa, which suggests that they tacitly acknowledge that neither of them can roll back its influence there on their own. That’s yet another observation that Greenfield-Thomas doesn’t want the rest of the world to talk about since it makes the West look weak.

The US Ambassador to the UN can’t accept that the global systemic transition to multipolarity that was unprecedentedly accelerated by the Ukrainian Conflict that her country provoked has emboldened African countries to push back against Western hegemony like never before. While they continue to pursue mutually beneficial relations with the US and France, they’re no longer allowing those two to mistreat them as vassal states.

All African countries are confident in the knowledge that strategically partnering with Russia enables them to ensure their objective national interests and thus fully complete their decolonization processes, which is why so many of them are eagerly embracing that Eurasian Great Power in spite of American pressure to distance themselves from it. The US is therefore indeed competing with Russia all across Africa, but it’s a competition that America is fated to lose since it lacks any of its rival’s appeal.