When

 

I say: "I said...Somebody has been saying..." etc? It's not me doing it okay? It's the Holy Spirit working through someone saying it. I've said that a lot in the past but I feel it needs to be said again as...well...a lot of things covered in the past just happen to be coming into light so to speak. All that being said?

‘It’s not a pretty picture’: Russia’s support is growing in the developing world

Somebody was saying this isn't going like it is being portrayed here. That a large part of the world was unaligned and/or with Russia. (Think oh, I dont know...China...Turkey...Saudi Arabia...Iran...South Africa...India...Brazil)

"A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit earlier this month assessed that net support for Russia had grown in the year since the invasion of Ukraine, as Moscow ramps up its courtship of previously neutral or geopolitically unaligned countries."

"Assessing countries’ enforcement of sanctions, U.N. voting patterns, domestic political trends and official statements alongside economic, political, military and historical ties, the EIU determined that the past year saw an increase in countries leaning toward Russia from 25 to 36.

(Lets see that 36-25 = 11.

11/25 = .44.

Thats a 44% increase in a year.

I wonder why they gave you just the increase in numbers and not the %?

But I digress.)

"Russia’s sphere of influence is growing as propaganda and diplomatic efforts gather momentum and Western powers fail to counter the Kremlin’s narratives, analysts suggest."

(I think it's a lil more than just "propaganda and diplomatic efforts". Countries are sick of our shit basically. From Vietnam on? Everywhere we go we seem to make things worse  Not to mention all these countries sitting on all these pallets of $'s inn their central banks are wondering to themselves: Are we next? They kicked Russia out of the swift payment system. Will they do it to us as well? Plus? Most of the worlds developing  countries are indebted to the IMF in the form of $'s (dollars y'all) to pay back their loans. Higher interest rates = more $ they gotta pay back. And we wonder why they are leaning away from us and to China and Russia? So yeah, it runs a lil deeper than "propaganda and diplomatic efforts")

"the EIU observed a significant uptick in the number of countries now leaning toward Russia — from 29 last year to 35 today."

(At the top of the article it said 25...Whats writing this AI? :-). Thats a joke BTW)

“China remains the most significant country in this category, but other developing countries (notably South Africa, Mali and Burkina Faso) have also moved into this grouping, which accounts for 33% of the world’s population,” the EIU report said, adding these trends highlight Russia’s growing influence in Africa.'

"OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Jan. 20, 2023: 

A banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a protest to support the Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traore and to demand the departure of France’s ambassador and military forces."

"While South Africa caused controversy in February by holding joint military drills with Russia and China on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor indicated that the “massive transfer of arms” from the West to Ukraine had changed Pretoria’s outlook and lauded the country’s “growing economic bilateral relationship” with Moscow."

(A good chunk of the rest of the world sees the US as a declining power...and they are right...and they are lining up with our adversaries. tell me you saw that coming pre-covid. I sure didnt. I knew people were getting ready to take advantage of a bad situation, but I never expected this really, not this soon.)

"The EIU said the number of neutral countries rose from 32 to 35, now representing almost 31% of the global population."

“Some previously Western-aligned countries, including Colombia, Turkey and Qatar, have moved into this category as their governments are seeking to reap economic benefits from engaging with both sides,” the EIU said. 

(Always keep your eyes on Turkey!)

“However, both Russia and China are upping the ante in recruiting those countries that are non-aligned and neutral.”

"By contrast, the number of countries actively condemning Russia fell from 131 to 122. The U.S. and European Union-led bloc including “West-leaning” countries represents around 36% of the global population, and has exhibited a “strong level of collaboration on sanctions” along with consistent military and economic support for Ukraine, the report said."

"However, this bloc also represents just under 68% of global GDP, highlighting an emerging disconnect between wealthy Western economies and the Global South."

(Thats not propaganda, thats what they are arguing to the countries they are recruiting:

"Hey, these people are only 36% of the global populace, yet they control 68% of the worlds GDP, aren't you sick of it by now? What have they ever done for you? Africa, the Global South etc.)

“Russian propaganda in developing countries is working extremely well, stoking up resentment against former colonial powers, and I would say also fueling the idea that sanctions from Western countries are fueling global food insecurity, global energy insecurity especially in emerging countries,” EIU Global Forecasting Director Agathe Demarais told CNBC."

"Russia and China have increasingly represented themselves to developing nations as alternatives to the West as economic and military partners, in that neither will attach demands around democracy or human rights to diplomatic relations."

(Like it or not it's here. The new gangsters are on the block so to speak, selling a different narrative.

It doesn't "sell" very well in Africa, the middle east etc. 

It just doesn't. 

"Now they (The west) have completely moved to a radical denial of moral norms, religion, and family." Vladimir Putin

Thats does sell.

Get over it already it's just the truth no matter how much certain people dont wanna hear it.)

“I think there is a lack of knowledge about sanctions and how they work, what they do etc., and Russia is obviously using this to its advantage. It’s going to be a very long-term trend, I’m not sure there is any quick magical fix. It’s not a pretty picture.” EIU Global Forecasting Director Agathe Demarais"

"At the recent Raisina Dialogue geopolitics forum in New Delhi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was the subject of laughter from delegates when he suggested that the Ukraine war was “launched against” Russia."

(He deserved to be, it is laughable.)

"However, he received supportive applause when bemoaning Western hypocrisy and double standards as he highlighted the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and other perceived Western transgressions."

(Just because the above is laughable? Doesn't mean that statement above isn't the truth. I mean what if Texas was successful back in the day and formed it's own country? Or if it ever succeed from the union etc? We gonna listen to Russia about how to handle what we perceive as being internal affairs?)

"Rachel Rizzo, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, was in the audience, and told CNBC that perspectives on the war were starkly different in India."

(It's not just India it's a lot of places and that's what I've been trying to explain because the mainstream narrative being put forth just doesn't bring it up much. Till now anyway.)

“What becomes clear when you get outside of U.S./European circles is that for us, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the very clear centerpiece of much of our policy decisions and conversations, and then when you talk to people that aren’t in the U.S. or Europe, it becomes clear that the conflict is very much regional, and a much smaller part of a broader puzzle,” Rizzo told CNBC via telephone from Washington, D.C.

(Exactly, they want to be able to feed their people and not drown due to rising sea levels, they couldn't care less about Ukraine.)

“Not every country that decides to accept Russian energy imports etc., or has pro-Russian sentiment throughout their populations, not all of that is a result of Russian information campaigns or disinformation campaigns,” she said."

“Some of this is the very real consequences of Russia looking at these countries as opportunities, the U.S. not being seen as the benevolent hegemonic power as we like to see ourselves. It is much more complicated than Russia pushing disinformation narratives., and unfortunately I think when you attribute, as we like to do, pro-Russian sentiment to that, you lose a whole lot of what is actually going on.”

(Of course the real truth has to be at the bottom of the piece.)