With the militarisation of Europe, African countries defending their sovereignty should prepare for the growing threats emanating from the Western minority and maintain a firm line based on pan-African values and support for a multipolar world order.
Context
It should be understood that after the failure of the plan to ‘defeat Russia strategically’, many plans of the Western elites collapsed (by the way, not only in relation to the Russian state, but also many other countries of the global majority, including African ones). A number of Western regimes, including France, hoped that a weakened Russia would allow them to regain their lost positions in Africa by force, which would mean returning to its fully neocolonial agenda, and also taking revenge on Russia, given that Paris, refusing to face the facts, continues to blame Moscow for its own failures in Africa.
Russia’s victory is also a victory for the entire multipolar world and the majority of humanity. It would seem that one may allow oneself to breathe a sigh of relief, but this is not the case. All necessary measures for controlling the behaviour of Western regimes and preventing them from pursuing a revanchist agenda must be taken now. As a direct neighbour of NATO-Brussels-Europe, Africa needs to be ready.
Besides the desire of Westerners to take revenge, there are also quite legitimate economic reasons. Without their own real strategic resources, coupled with growing economic and industrial problems and social issues, the regimes of Brussels-led Europe, like the UK, will need access to the strategic resources of African countries more than ever.
In some cases, these resources will not be particularly difficult to obtain, as the leaders of some African countries are ready to provide them themselves, but this naturally does not apply to those African states that have relied on real sovereignty, pan-African values and support for a multipolar world order.
The gravity of these challenges is further aggravated by the fact that enraged Western regimes can count on the assistance of some of their remaining henchmen, local agents and, of course, their own destabilising agents operating in almost all parts of the continent. Thus, the work to counter these challenges will be most serious.
Reasons for optimism
Nevertheless, and despite the seriousness of the challenges for the African continent and for the African allies of the multipolar world (they are of the greatest importance to us), there are reasons for optimism – but one must not relax.
Firstly, Africa today is completely different, increasingly beginning to understand its true potential after years of Western propaganda instilling insecurity that Africa is ‘incapable of anything’ without the West. This is, in itself, very positive. Secondly, unlike a number of other countries (including, by the way, the post-Soviet space, in which our rivals were able to form a certain contingent of pro-Soros youth), in many African countries today one can observe anti-Soros youth, patriotic and inspired by the values of true sovereignty and Pan-Africanism. Pan-African civil society is also mobilised and ready to confront enemies. This is a very serious force for supporters of a multipolar world.
Thirdly – and speaking of the militarisation of forces nostalgic for the bygone unipolar era – the allies of the main forces of the multipolar world are consciously strengthening their own defence and security. The current reality more than ever proves the correctness of their chosen path. It is no coincidence that after the most recent visit of the Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, Army General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, to the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Mali and Eastern Libya, many Africans are even more confident. The fact that the residents of a number of African countries are observing an increase in Russian military equipment with Russian military specialists adds to this.
Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov, entrepreneur, political commentator, expert on African and Middle Eastern issues
