Russia has gotten two more votes in the United Nations General Assembly. On March 2, 2022, only five countries voted against the first resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine: Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, Russia itself, and Syria. On Thursday of last week there were seven votes against the second condemnation resolution: Nicaragua, Belarus, Russia, North Korea, Mali, Eritrea and Syria. The new additions to the Kremlin's iron guard are the sinister Nicaraguan regime of Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista guerrilla turned dictator, and Mali's military junta, which in early February received the Russian minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov.
Russia has conquered Mali, one of the largest countries in the Sahel strip. Twice the size of Ukraine and 22 million inhabitants, concentrated in the southern region, between the Niger and Senegal rivers. Very arid country in the north, with hidden treasures. Gold mines.
Russia has conquered Mali. The whole world knew it since the mercenaries of the Wagner company occupied the position of the French soldiers and the UN vote has just certified it. The Bamako board has paid for the services rendered, without being able to take refuge in abstention as it did last year.
The next piece to fall will be Burkina Faso (former Republic of Upper Volta), a country located to the south of Mali, smaller, but much more populous in proportional terms (22 million inhabitants). The country of Captain Thomas Sankara, the African Che Guevara, assassinated in 1987 after having educated more than half the population, is governed today by a military junta that has just called for the withdrawal of the French special forces. Last Sunday the French flag was lowered. The Wagner Company will be here soon. There is also gold in Burkina Faso.
France has withdrawn in Niger, where it has vital interests: the uranium deposits essential for its atomic power plants. The historical continuity of the powerful French nuclear plant (56 reactors and 14 more on the horizon) depends on the same not happening in Niger as in Mali, Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic.
The dramatic French withdrawal has triggered the alarm in the brain lobe of the European Union that does not think exclusively about the war in Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron will present today in Paris a plan to reorganize the French presence in Africa, before starting a trip to Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon, a trip that can be considered as a response to the recent African tour of the foreign minister Russian Lavrov, who in January visited Mali, Mauritania and Sudan.
Russia is trying to communicate the two fronts: the Donbas and the Sahel. If Russia can threaten Europe from Africa, it will be easier for Russia to negotiate the fate of Ukraine when the slaughter and destruction become unbearable for everyone.
How can Russia threaten Europe from Africa? Dosing control over jihadist groups and opening the spigots to the mafias that traffic in immigration. From the Sahel, the entire Maghreb can be destabilized, where the state has already collapsed in Libya and is becoming a dictatorship in Tunisia. Where Algeria rearms and Morocco fortifies itself in the Sahara with Israeli drones.
History moves faster than the slow political and institutional maturation of the European Union. If with the war in Ukraine there is a risk of ending up forming two Europes: the Eastern Roman Empire with its capital in Warsaw and the Western Roman Empire with its capital in Brussels, in North Africa and the Sahel all the European countries, including Germany, they operate on their own.
[Spain raises the alarm, but a pimple has just come out. The sordid plot of Operation Mediator also points to the Sahel. One of the defendants, the retired general of the Civil Guard, Antonio Espinosa Navas, currently in prison, was head of a European Union mission in Niger and director of a project financed by the EU to improve the security of the countries of the zone. The Canarias Connection could end up becoming a serious problem for the Government of Pedro Sánchez].
