Why France failed to turn China against Russia, and Xi Jinping managed to change Macron’s policy towards Moscow; why African countries want to restore relations with Russia, and how France repeats its own experience of the Second World War era, said military observer Alexander Artamonov.
Macron went to Beijing after he visited Africa.
Mali, the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Nigeria began to look askance at European diplomacy. Macron decided to visit African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There, Macron arranges a pick with Felix Tshisekede, the president of the DRC, on the air, and he answers: “We are not soup peddlers for you,” meaning “we are an independent country.” France continues to consider the countries of equatorial Africa as its territory:
And suddenly, Africans say what they should say: “We are not slaves.” This was provoked by Edouard Balladur, the Prime Minister of France, who 30 years ago decided to abandon the French policy of endless debt cancellation, stopped supporting the African economy. The Africans then made an attempt at independence under the auspices of Muammar Gaddafi with his African common currency, which he wanted to fill with gold to give water to the entire Sahara. But Muammar Gaddafi was slaughtered by the West with a quick hand, and in a particularly brutal form.
Africa again turned towards Russia: more than 50 African countries arrived at the meeting in Bocharov Ruchey, and all of them declared that they wanted to restore relations with Russia, as in the era of the Soviet Union.
After that, Macron tries to drive through all the countries and drive them back into his orbit. But Africa no longer intends to dance to the French tune.
