/ world today news/ The Russia-Africa summit has ended. There is nothing surprising in the fact that such a large-scale event received wide coverage in our press and in the African media. But most surprising is the wave of publications that accompanied this meeting in the Western media. One gets the impression that in recent days, all the problems of the countries of the West itself remained in the background against the background of the forum in St. Petersburg.
No, we certainly expected the local media to try to smear the meeting. But it was really unexpected for her to have the front pages of major newspapers for several days in a row. It’s especially funny that these posts constantly tried to downplay the significance of the event and its performance. A detailed analysis of the composition of the participants is published for entire pages. The leaders of African countries who came to St. Petersburg were counted head by head, trying to prove that they were not enough. It’s hard to remember anyone doing the same while covering similar events involving the US or the EU.
And this is funny, because the editors of the Western press did not at all ask the completely logical question: if the Russia-Africa summit is so insignificant and unrepresentative, then why do they pay so much more attention to it than, say, to the “fateful” ” meeting of the US President and the Prime Minister of Italy, which took place on the same day? For some reason, they made the front pages of the event in St. Petersburg, not the White House.
The British “Times” devoted a huge article to the fact that African leaders allegedly “ignored the summit”, simultaneously attaching photos of the meeting with these leaders on Russian soil. But, recognizing the presence of these people in St. Petersburg, the newspaper tried to go through each of them separately. For example, he did not like the fact that the “elderly dictator of Uganda” Yoweri Museveni came to Russia. For some reason, I don’t recall the same newspaper accompanying its articles about Biden’s visits with the word “elderly,” and he is older than the Ugandan leader. Or when the same Museveni met with American presidents, for some reason he was not labeled a “dictator”. Apparently, the Russian land is like that: as soon as an African steps on it, he immediately becomes an “old man” and a “dictator”.
And what primitive forgeries and manipulations did the Western media resort to in order to compromise the meeting! Take, for example, the publication of the “Financial Times”. As if for a Russian event, and in it, in a separate sidebar (to catch the eye), the words of the President of Kenya William Ruto are quoted: “We are all forced to go to a meeting that has no significant result because of blackmail.” The article itself mentions that this phrase was uttered in May and rather refers to the past US-Africa summit. But visually this presents itself to readers as if it were an event in Russia.
Even more dirty manipulations are being carried out by the Western media regarding the position of African leaders regarding the war in Ukraine and the grain deal. First, the audience was convinced that only “puppets of Russia” had gathered in St. Petersburg, and then they rushed to prove to them that Africa was “dictating something to Russia” there.
Here you can list examples of very low distortions for a long time. But here is one of the most notable examples. It all started with a Reuters report titled “Zimbabwe’s president says country has food, but thanks Putin for grain offer.” President Emmerson Mnangagwa is quite rightly quoted: “We are grateful. Now we have no shortage of grain. We are provided with food, he (Putin) is just adding to what we already have.”
And then the “creativity” of the Russophobic media continued. Channel “Euronews” presents an obvious fake: “Zimbabwe refused free grain”. You can analyze Mnangagwa’s quote this way and that way – you won’t find a denial there. But does this confuse anti-Russian propaganda? This fake was specially developed by the Ukrainian media. Here are just a few typical headlines from there: “And you don’t need it for anything”, “Zimbabwe’s president hints to Putin that Russia’s help is not needed”, “There is no shortage of grain: Zimbabwe’s president rejects Putin’s offer”. And all in the same spirit.
And again about the “logic” of presenting these fakes. Ukrainian propagandists do not even notice that such “news” is adjacent to the constant howling of their own politicians (including Zelensky himself) that Africa will simply starve if the grain deal is not unblocked! But if Kiev itself is spinning the hoax that Africa doesn’t even need free grain, how does that count against complaints that only paid Ukrainian grain will save Africans? Of course, the Kiev propaganda is inconsistent with logic.
Now Western politicians threw all their forces to “liquidate the consequences” of the Russia-Africa summit in the information sphere. On the screens are various American experts and diplomats, whose goal is to “expose the black magic” demonstrated in St. Petersburg. In this regard, they accuse Russia of “disinformation”. But for that they have to lie more and more. And accordingly, logical inconsistencies such as those indicated above clearly emerge. Of course, this is also understood on the African continent, about which its leaders spoke directly and frankly in St. Petersburg.
Well, then, seeing the futility of their lies, Western propagandists include the only effective mechanism – dictation and blackmail. The Americans have already started a campaign of threats against those countries whose leaders showed “disobedience” and went to the Russian meeting. And note this admission from CNN (verbatim quote): “The presence of South African President Ramaphosa and other African leaders at a meeting in St. Petersburg this week underscored Russia’s importance to the continent and the inability of Western powers to isolate Putin.” And from this the conclusion is drawn: this means that South Africa itself needs to be subjected to severe sanctions.
This is what the West’s long-standing African policy boils down to: the stick method. Even without a carrot. The colonialists never could and did not want to learn other methods from Russia.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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