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Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Rostikol: 7:06am On Mar 05, 2022
Many of you vilifying Russia and 'praying for Ukraine' don't even know the long and short of what you're supporting.

CNN has manipulated your heads. Your beloved ''west'' is responsible for thousands of invasions of regions, countries, and territories, across the world, killing billions of people including your own ancestors. Russia has never tried to enslave or colonise you or connive with your leaders to steal your resources. Instead, they funded liberation movements across Africa in the 1960s right up to the 80s. When the west dismissed Mandela and the ANC as 'terrorists', Russia did the opposite and funded them.

But no, They are your problem today because they reacted to the west's NATO adventurism, as that group continues to build military bases surrounding Russia.

Ukraine was the final straw. Russia will NOT accept NATO and US military bases on their doorstep, at their borders, just as the USA threatened nuclear war after President Khruschev of the Soviet Union tried to build a military alliance with Cuba, next door to Florida, making Khrushev withdraw.

Oh but now Putin is the 'evil monster' for doing the exact same thing the US would have done.

The Ukrainians you are crying about are racist to the core, and would throw you off the train if you tried to flee with them, like they did to black students there.

Russia is a superpower. She cannot allow sentiments to prevent her from protecting her strategic interests.

Africans should adopt a NEUTRAL position like the Chinese and Indians are doing, instead of playing happy slave to the west as usual, led by the nose by CNN and BBC.

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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by adekanmbi1986(m): 7:08am On Mar 05, 2022
Hmm
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by tillaman(m): 7:09am On Mar 05, 2022
shocked

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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by YinkaOlusesi16(m): 7:10am On Mar 05, 2022
Africans can never learn

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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Dawn91(m): 7:12am On Mar 05, 2022
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Rostikol:
Many of you vilifying Russia and 'praying for Ukraine' don't even know the long and short of what you're supporting.

CNN has manipulated your heads. Your beloved ''west'' is responsible for thousands of invasions of regions, countries, and territories, across the world, killing billions of people including your own ancestors. Russia has never tried to enslave or colonise you or connive with your leaders to steal your resources. Instead, they funded liberation movements across Africa in the 1960s right up to the 80s. When the west dismissed Mandela and the ANC as 'terrorists', Russia did the opposite and funded them.

But no, They are your problem today because they reacted to the west's NATO adventurism, as that group continues to build military bases surrounding Russia.

Ukraine was the final straw. Russia will NOT accept NATO and US military bases on their doorstep, at their borders, just as the USA threatened nuclear war after President Khruschev of the Soviet Union tried to build a military alliance with Cuba, next door to Florida, making Khrushev withdraw.

Oh but now Putin is the 'evil monster' for doing the exact same thing the US would have done.

The Ukrainians you are crying about are racist to the core, and would throw you off the train if you tried to flee with them, like they did to black students there.

Russia is a superpower. She cannot allow sentiments to prevent her from protecting her strategic interests.

Africans should adopt a NEUTRAL position like the Chinese and Indians are doing, instead of playing happy slave to the west as usual, led by the nose by CNN and BBC.
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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Nobody: 7:14am On Mar 05, 2022
This actually sound different.
Russia was not interested in Africa, apart from lacking warm water ports to connect to Africa she was too busy colonising and conquering Central Asia and Siberia.

Why would Imperial Russia have bother with Africa when Asia and the Caucuses were at her door step?
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Nobody: 7:14am On Mar 05, 2022
Some people just wanna have something to say.
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Rostikol: 7:14am On Mar 05, 2022
Dawn91:
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That's what we call an illiterate response.

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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Rostikol: 7:17am On Mar 05, 2022
Wisesaying001:
This actually sound different.
Russia was not interested in Africa, apart from lacking warm water ports to connect to Africa she was too busy colonising and conquering Central Asia and Siberia.

Why would Imperial Russia have bother with Africa when Asia and the Caucuses were at her door step?

Why are you giving excuses?

What is also your excuse for Russia supporting liberation movements across Africa, from Namibia to Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa etc?

The fact is that from a strategic perspective, Africans have no business taking sides in this war. Just remain neutral.
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Nobody: 7:24am On Mar 05, 2022
Rostikol:


Why are you giving excuses?

What is also your excuse for Russia supporting liberation movements across Africa, from Namibia to Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa etc?
That was a response to the point you made about Russia not colonising Africa.

Now to the racism part every ethnicity has racists, but the narrative being pushed by Critical Race Theorists(like you) and so called anti-racists is the most racist ideology there is. It's teaching minorities that they can not succeed and are victims which is proven to make people fail and lose.

You end racism by teaching everyone we are the same and putting in policies to remove causes of inequality of opportunity. Not by teaching people to see people primarily by race.

Now to the part where Russia supported liberation movement was because because it needed more communist allies to politically spread communism around the world, and to go against the USA and NATO democracies. The more Marxist-Leninist communist countries in the world, the more powerful the Soviet Union grew to ruin the free market.
They did not support the aspirations of indigenous African for freedom,in actuality they wanted to spread socialism and communism.
Understood?
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by franchasng: 7:24am On Mar 05, 2022
Rostikol:
Many of you vilifying Russia and 'praying for Ukraine' don't even know the long and short of what you're supporting.

CNN has manipulated your heads. Your beloved ''west'' is responsible for thousands of invasions of regions, countries, and territories, across the world, killing billions of people including your own ancestors. Russia has never tried to enslave or colonise you or connive with your leaders to steal your resources. Instead, they funded liberation movements across Africa in the 1960s right up to the 80s. When the west dismissed Mandela and the ANC as 'terrorists', Russia did the opposite and funded them.

But no, They are your problem today because they reacted to the west's NATO adventurism, as that group continues to build military bases surrounding Russia.

Ukraine was the final straw. Russia will NOT accept NATO and US military bases on their doorstep, at their borders, just as the USA threatened nuclear war after President Khruschev of the Soviet Union tried to build a military alliance with Cuba, next door to Florida, making Khrushev withdraw.

Oh but now Putin is the 'evil monster' for doing the exact same thing the US would have done.

The Ukrainians you are crying about are racist to the core, and would throw you off the train if you tried to flee with them, like they did to black students there.

Russia is a superpower. She cannot allow sentiments to prevent her from protecting her strategic interests.

Africans should adopt a NEUTRAL position like the Chinese and Indians are doing, instead of playing happy slave to the west as usual, led by the nose by CNN and BBC.
Nobody cares about whether Russia or US or the West is the friend of Africa. Africa itself is an enemy of itself, there is nothing like Africa, talk about individual tribes in Africa cos Africa and the nations that make up Africa are not united, only tribes and ethnicities are.


Okay let's even talk about which country between Russia, US and EU have helped Africans the most, and of course its the US and EU.


US DV Lottery Program alone elevated over 5million Nigerians from poverty and hunger directly and indirectly. Directly through those that left Nigeria for a better life through that program. Indirectly through their relatives, spouses and businesses in Nigeria benefiting from their income from the US.


EU too have helped a lot of Nigerians through eased migrant policies that welcomed poor Africans for decades. What about Russia? A highly racist nation with wickedness at their heart. They refuse to invest in Africa. They shut their borders with deadly border guards that shoot at sight. They limit entry into Russia just to ensure no immigrant from Africa and other poor countries come in yet you are foolishly supporting them.



You ignorantly think Putin invaded Ukraine because of just NATO movement. Did Ukraine join NATO? There was no way Ukraine could have joined NATO cos NATO won't accept Ukraine based on an article in NATO's charter that stated that before a country will be admitted into NATO, it must not be under any military confrontation or at war with any of its neighbors. The country must be at peace with her neighbors. But you senseless people supporting Putin’s madness think its all about NATO which is pure lies.


Putin just want a regime change in Ukraine to install his puppet just as he has in Belarus, Crimea, Chechnya and co. He hates the fact that Ukraine their closest neighbor is having a successful democracy that allows Ukrainians to choose their preferred leaders unlike in his Russia where he has seized power for years, silencing and killing oppositions. So he knows if Ukraine continue to succeed, it will open the eyes of Russians against him and his evil oligarchs that may lead to a Russian revolution against him, so he just wants to disrupt Ukraine's progress at all cost since 2014.

Instead of condemning the aggressor, the invaders you are condemning someone in his house that got invaded even without firing any shot at Russians to provoke them?


The same way you all blame Igbos when Nigerian soldiers invade southeast communities to kill civilians when they have issue with some armed groups they ought to confront directly?


Honestly some of you have twisted mentality and trust me, people like you always experience injustice that you support before you leave this earth.


Go and ask Muritala Mohammed that massacred innocent civilians at Asaba, he thought he would get away with it but alas he paid the price in the most gruesome manner years later, that's how life works.



Don't think people escape earth's pay back, it may look like they did but go closely and observe their life

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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by ZombieTERROR: 7:33am On Mar 05, 2022
Rostikol:

Why are you giving excuses?
What is also your excuse for Russia supporting liberation movements across Africa, from Namibia to Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa etc?
The fact is that from a strategic perspective, Africans have no business taking sides in this war. Just remain neutral.

it's quite unfortunate that you typed all this jargons in English and not Russia..

which African country speaks Russian?..
we have Portuguese.. Spanish.. Arabic etc
Russia was never interested in Africa.

Must of you Yoruba Muslims just have this disdain for the West and anything West.. yet you cluster around UK and not Saudi Arabia.

The West should know how Nigerian Muslims and especially Yoruba Muslims feels about them..
terrorists everywhere

CC M16
FBI
CIA
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by joyandfaith: 7:35am On Mar 05, 2022
Rostikol:
Many of you vilifying Russia and 'praying for Ukraine' don't even know the long and short of what you're supporting.

CNN has manipulated your heads. Your beloved ''west'' is responsible for thousands of invasions of regions, countries, and territories, across the world, killing billions of people including your own ancestors. Russia has never tried to enslave or colonise you or connive with your leaders to steal your resources. Instead, they funded liberation movements across Africa in the 1960s right up to the 80s. When the west dismissed Mandela and the ANC as 'terrorists', Russia did the opposite and funded them.

But no, They are your problem today because they reacted to the west's NATO adventurism, as that group continues to build military bases surrounding Russia.

Ukraine was the final straw. Russia will NOT accept NATO and US military bases on their doorstep, at their borders, just as the USA threatened nuclear war after President Khruschev of the Soviet Union tried to build a military alliance with Cuba, next door to Florida, making Khrushev withdraw.

Oh but now Putin is the 'evil monster' for doing the exact same thing the US would have done.

The Ukrainians you are crying about are racist to the core, and would throw you off the train if you tried to flee with them, like they did to black students there.

Russia is a superpower. She cannot allow sentiments to prevent her from protecting her strategic interests.

Africans should adopt a NEUTRAL position like the Chinese and Indians are doing, instead of playing happy slave to the west as usual, led by the nose by CNN and BBC.
Better friend of Africa and good enemy of its neighbours. No super power countries can be friends of developing countries. They are all monsters .
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Rostikol: 7:35am On Mar 05, 2022
Wisesaying001:

That was a response to the point you made about Russia not colonising Africa.

Now to the racism part every ethnicity has racists, but the narrative being pushed by Critical Race Theorists(like you) and so called anti-racists is the most racist ideology there is. It's teaching minorities that they can not succeed and are victims which is proven to make people fail and lose.

You end racism by teaching everyone we are the same and putting in policies to remove causes of inequality of opportunity. Not by teaching people to see people primarily by race.

Sorry I've no idea what you're on about.

Now to the part where Russia supported liberation movement was because because it needed more communist allies to politically spread communism around the world, and to go against the USA and NATO democracies. The more Marxist-Leninist communist countries in the world, the more powerful the Soviet Union grew to ruin the free market.
They did not support the aspirations of indigenous African for freedom,in actuality they wanted to spread socialism and communism.
Understood?

It is NOT your business to inquire WHY another country has supported your interests.

Or to diminish the import of that support on the grounds that that country had an ulterior reason for so doing.

That is geopolitical idiocy.

China for instance KNOWS that Russia is allied with her for reasons to do with Russia's strategic interests, as does India.

That hasn't stopped them from recognising Russia as an ally and taking a neutral stance.

So Africa should likewise care little about 'WHY' Russia is an ally, and instead, act in her interests.

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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Nobody: 7:38am On Mar 05, 2022
Rostikol:


Sorry I've no idea what you're on about.



It is NOT your business to inquire WHY another country has supported your interests.

Or to diminish the import of that support on the grounds that that country had an ulterior reason for so doing.

That is geopolitical idiocy.

China for instance KNOWS that Russia is allied with her for reasons to do with Russia's strategic interests, as does India.

That hasn't stopped them from recognising Russia as an ally and taking a neutral stance.

So Africa should likewise care little about 'WHY' Russia is an ally, and instead, act in her interests.



Ooh your issue was your country taking stance if I am right?
You asked a question and I gave you an answer.

Why not call your country out rather than bring history you have little or no idea about?
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Rostikol: 7:44am On Mar 05, 2022
franchasng:
Nobody cares about whether Russia or US or the West is the friend of Africa. Africa itself is an enemy of itself, there is nothing like Africa, talk about individual tribes in Africa cos Africa and the nations that make up Africa are not united, only tribes and ethnicities are.

This is a lunatic and illiterate way of looking at the continent, and explains your dysfunctional arguments.


Okay let's even talk about which country between Russia, US and EU have helped Africans the most, and of course its the US and EU.


US DV Lottery Program alone elevated over 5million Nigerians from poverty and hunger directly and indirectly. Directly through those that left Nigeria for a better life through that program. Indirectly through their relatives, spouses and businesses in Nigeria benefiting from their income from the US.


EU too have helped a lot of Nigerians through eased migrant policies that welcomed poor Africans for decades.

The US and EU helped destroy African economies through the World Bank and IMF 'structural adjustment' policies of the 1980s. The brain drain which you are praising the west for, is actually a curse on the continent, as its best brains flee to develop the already prosperous west.

What about Russia? A highly racist nation with wickedness at their heart. They refuse to invest in Africa. They shut their borders with deadly border guards that shoot at sight. They limit entry into Russia just to ensure no immigrant from Africa and other poor countries come in yet you are foolishly supporting them.

Russia is not a rich country. They do invest in Africa, but it will never be on the scale of the Chinese or west. I much rather they help liberate Africa as they have done, than ROB Africa of its riches, while allowing its best brains to come in and develop Russia, which is what the 'kind hearted' (in your little naive mind) west does.

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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Rostikol: 7:51am On Mar 05, 2022
Wisesaying001:

Ooh your issue was your country taking stance if I am right?
You asked a question and I gave you an answer.

Why not call your country out rather than bring history you have little or no idea about?

I knew the ''history'' of the East - West rivalry when your parents were still in nappies.

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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Nobody: 7:56am On Mar 05, 2022
Rostikol:


I knew the ''history'' of the East - West rivalry when parents were still in nappies.
That's good,glad you admitted that.enjoy your day.
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by JonOfAustrlia: 11:07pm On Mar 05, 2022
Rostikol:
Many of you vilifying Russia and 'praying for Ukraine' don't even know the long and short of what you're supporting.

CNN has manipulated your heads. Your beloved ''west'' is responsible for thousands of invasions of regions, countries, and territories, across the world, killing billions of people including your own ancestors. Russia has never tried to enslave or colonise you or connive with your leaders to steal your resources. Instead, they funded liberation movements across Africa in the 1960s right up to the 80s. When the west dismissed Mandela and the ANC as 'terrorists', Russia did the opposite and funded them.

But no, They are your problem today because they reacted to the west's NATO adventurism, as that group continues to build military bases surrounding Russia.

Ukraine was the final straw. Russia will NOT accept NATO and US military bases on their doorstep, at their borders, just as the USA threatened nuclear war after President Khruschev of the Soviet Union tried to build a military alliance with Cuba, next door to Florida, making Khrushev withdraw.

Oh but now Putin is the 'evil monster' for doing the exact same thing the US would have done.

The Ukrainians you are crying about are racist to the core, and would throw you off the train if you tried to flee with them, like they did to black students there.

Russia is a superpower. She cannot allow sentiments to prevent her from protecting her strategic interests.

Africans should adopt a NEUTRAL position like the Chinese and Indians are doing, instead of playing happy slave to the west as usual, led by the nose by CNN and BBC.
i believe in sovereignty so ur right there but they are trying to over throw a sovereign country themselves. And they would do it to Nigeria too if Nigeria was next door to Russia.
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by Jackanda1(m): 11:26pm On Mar 05, 2022
Seems the sanctions hammered on Russia is also affecting their internet trolls too. Good to know grin
Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by tonididdy(m): 11:52pm On Mar 05, 2022
Rostikol:
Many of you vilifying Russia and 'praying for Ukraine' don't even know the long and short of what you're supporting.

CNN has manipulated your heads. Your beloved ''west'' is responsible for thousands of invasions of regions, countries, and territories, across the world, killing billions of people including your own ancestors. Russia has never tried to enslave or colonise you or connive with your leaders to steal your resources. Instead, they funded liberation movements across Africa in the 1960s right up to the 80s. When the west dismissed Mandela and the ANC as 'terrorists', Russia did the opposite and funded them.

But no, They are your problem today because they reacted to the west's NATO adventurism, as that group continues to build military bases surrounding Russia.

Ukraine was the final straw. Russia will NOT accept NATO and US military bases on their doorstep, at their borders, just as the USA threatened nuclear war after President Khruschev of the Soviet Union tried to build a military alliance with Cuba, next door to Florida, making Khrushev withdraw.

Oh but now Putin is the 'evil monster' for doing the exact same thing the US would have done.

The Ukrainians you are crying about are racist to the core, and would throw you off the train if you tried to flee with them, like they did to black students there.

Russia is a superpower. She cannot allow sentiments to prevent her from protecting her strategic interests.

Africans should adopt a NEUTRAL position like the Chinese and Indians are doing, instead of playing happy slave to the west as usual, led by the nose by CNN and BBC.
You have spoken well but you cannot help some Nigerians.
You see that American visa, them need am bad bad. They will even lick bidens ass to get it.
So they want to be on the western side because US Embassy dey investigate applicants browser history grin

Number 2: most Nigerians only watch CNN or BBC. Donald Trump invented the word "fake news" and he first used those words against CNN.
If you want a neutral unbiased version of this Russian military intervention, watch Al Jazeera news

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Re: Russia Is A Better Friend Of Africa Than The West by jmoore(m): 12:14am On Mar 06, 2022
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1. Colonization was not limited to Africa. It is only ignorance that will exonerate Russia from colonization. Russia colonized many territories. The world doesn't start and end in Africa.


2. Russia will not accept military bases at their doorsteps? Ukraine is not a member of NATO.
There are 5 NATO countries that are on the doorsteps of Russia. They are Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Why did Russia attack these 5 countries? It left them to attack Ukraine that is not a member of NATO. That's a combination of misplaced priority and insanity.


3. FYI, Russia had a military base in Cuba for 40 years.


The war is between Ukraine and Russia. I have seen what you so called friend Putin is doing in Ukraine, destroying a country.

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