14
submitted 1 year ago by livus@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

Sergei Lavrov moves to reassure sub-Saharan allies after recent armed mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] The_Empty_Tuple@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Putin is in a tight spot. He has everything to lose geopolitically in Africa and militarily in Ukraine by removing Prigozhin/Wagner from the equation. But I believe the current situation is untenable and will burst at the seams soon, one way or another. I wonder whether the loss of Wagner's influence would be a stabilizing or destabilizing event in Sub-Saharan Africa.

[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

International interest in oil in the Sahel and mineral wealth in Central Africa are the overarching destabilizing factors.

My view is that a vacuum in "enforcers" wouldn't stabilize in the short term.

That said, Wagner's human rights attrocities have been pretty egregious in CAR and it's hard to see it as anything other than a net gain if that were to end. Probably a long tail of groups who were rolling with them/trained by them though.

this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
14 points (100.0% liked)

News

90 readers
4 users here now

Breaking news and current events worldwide.

founded 1 year ago