The US State Department has framed support for Ukraine as supporting national sovereignty and the freedom of nations control their own international relations. An unintended consequence of western sanctions against Russia has been that African nations have been cut off from Russian food and fertilizer exports since the normal payment means have been blocked. NATO only recent changed these policies in a belated attempt to avoid starvation in Africa.
Ironically the State Department is now threatening African nations with sanctions if they do not follow US policies against Russia. I thought the reason for the sanctions was to protect national sovereignty and freedom of nations to form partnerships with other nations. Shouldn’t African nations have the same rights as European nations?
The FBI recently used flash grenades and drones in violent raids on the US-based African People’s Socialist Party. Is this an example of a racist attack by the FBI? Or is it an example of the government using the pretext of alleged Russian connections to silence critics of US foreign policy?
The pan-Africanist group has been a longtime advocate for reparations for slavery and a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy. The raid appears to be connected to a separate indictment of a Russian man accused of using U.S.-based groups to spread Russian propaganda . . .
“Bogus Charge”: FBI Raids African People’s Socialist Party; Group Dismisses Russian Influence Claims | Democracy Now!
The US controls 30 bases across the African continent. US forces include combat troops in Somalia and other countries. The US is using the bases to protect western corporate interests and to counter China and Russia’s attempts to gain influence in Africa.
The US military operates not only to provide an advantage to the United States and its ruling elites, but it functions – along with the armies of the other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) nations, including France – as the guarantor of Western corporate interests and the principles of capitalism . . .
As Chinese private and public commercial interests have increased on the African continent, and as Chinese firms have consistently outbid Western firms, US pressure to contain China on the continent has increased. The US government’s New Africa Strategy (2019) characterised the situation in competitive terms: “Great power competitors, namely China and Russia, are rapidly expanding their financial and political influence across Africa . . .
https://www.newframe.com/us-bases-in-africa-and-the-future-of-african-unity/
If national sovereignty and freedom are important values, then shouldn’t African nations be free to form alliances with other nations, including China and Russia?
Does the US only care about national sovereignty and freedom for Ukraine because it involves Europeans “with blue eyes and blonde hair”?
https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1497974245737050120
Or are national sovereignty and freedom just convenient pretexts for business as usual in great-power politics?
Sounds a lot like colonialism. I guess Africa only exists help the pocket books of globalists tyrants.
Oh, and just like Libya. Get of line and NATO will get you! This is what the left stands for these days. You can tell by their silence…
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Here’s a good take regarding the Ukraine and Russia from Roger Waters of the band Pink Floyd. He provides insight that “we” are not hearing from our media. Hmmmmmmmmm…I wonder why not? 
Start at the 3:59 second mark and listen to the exchange between CNN and him. It really makes you ponder what’s actually going on right now and what we’re being told is happening.
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That was very interesting. He’s correct. That guy need to go read some stuff before he starts yapping.
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Yes, NATO includes all the European powers who colonized Africa. Belgium, the headquarters of NATO and the EU, arguably was responsible for genocide involving of millions of enslaved workers in the Belgian Congo in the 19th century. More recently NATO’s “humanitarian bombing” of Libya in 2011 resulted in a civil that forced a million foreign workers from other parts of Africa to leave the country.
Russia, on the other hand, has a history of supporting independence movements in Africa. It is not an accident the Russian foreign minister was warmly greeted during his recent trip to Africa, while the US Secretary of State faced a chilly reception.
For comparison with Blinken’s recent visit, here is a clip from the meeting between Russian and South African foreign minister in 2019:
Yes, Waters makes some good points that are rarely heard in the western media.
From what I see, African countries have very little interest in what is basically tribal warfare within Europe. The diversity within many African countries in terms of languages, cultures, and physical appearance far exceeds that in the entire continent of Europe. Differences between Russians and Ukrainians are utterly trivial from that perspective.
Many of African nations have a history of colonial powers exploiting ethnic differences to maintain control and domination. The idea that the western countries have been involved with creating a civil war in Ukraine is hardly a foreign concept.
NATO’s threats and coercion to enforce western sanctions are likely to provoke hostility in Africa. African may well abandon western financial systems, which are being used to enforce the sanctions. The long-term effects could be disastrous for western finance and trade.
From what I see, big-power politics are driving US policy, but the results of the policy are likely to be counterproductive to US interests.