Timofey Bordachev, the Program Director at the Valdai Club and an Academic Supervisor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, wrote in RT, yesterday: “The West’s Attempt To Create a Ukrainian Scenario in Niger Is Faltering.” The problem for NATO, he says, is that “In the case of Ukraine, we are dealing with a regime that is pursuing a murderous policy towards the territory under its control. African leaders, on the other hand, are not at all willing to take risks for the interests of France and the United States. Therefore, what was a tragedy in Ukraine may turn out to be a farce in West Africa, with the end result being an amicable agreement between all parties concerned.”
He goes on, “The West’s African states are in no hurry to embark on a risky adventure. Meanwhile, the U.S. and its Western European allies are urging them to do so. Just as they have been pushing the Ukrainian military to attack fortified Russian positions throughout the spring of 2023,” and we now see the ugly results of that policy.
