Leaders of many African countries are finding the offers of Russia and China to develop bilateral relations without making any political or other demands more attractive than the terms imposed by US-based global financial institutions, accompanied by Washington’s demands related to human rights and democracy.
Assessing the situation in the western Sahel, Turkey’s Anadolu media agency concludes that the strategic mistakes of the US administration led by Joe Biden have enabled Russia and China to strengthen their positions on the continent.
The main mistake of the United States, according to the agency’s experts, is that for too long Washington has counted on its military presence on the continent as a tool to maintaining its political influence, viewing the development of its relations with Africa through the prism of the Cold War and completely ignoring the urgent needs of its African partners to receive tangible American investments in order to stabilize the socio-economic situation and thus eliminate the root causes of terrorism.
In addition, in contrast to the unilateral and unbalanced approach of the United States, the agency notes, China is pursuing a long-term and comprehensive strategy to develop ties with Africa, including by making huge investments in a range of infrastructure projects, and has become the largest trading partner of almost all countries on the continent.
US defeats in the global war on terror
Therefore, according to former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski, the withdrawal of US troops from Niger and Chad is a natural result of the fact that the era of “US-led neocolonialism” is coming to an end, and its forced retreats mark the failure of US African policy as a whole.
As the American publication Tom Dispatch notes, the........