NEW: Russian defense chief Sergei Shoigu said the North Korean military "has become the most powerful army in the world" under Kim Jong Un's leadership, according to a DPRK state media report Thursday on a banquet hosted by the North Korean defense ministry. pic.twitter.com/jsZbTLJ1wg
— NK NEWS (@nknewsorg) July 26, 2023
Lmfao!!! Russia is fucking embarrassing.
Putin Courts Africa At Summit, But Many African Leaders Stay Away - The Washington Post
Only 16 African heads of state will attend — fewer than half of the 43 who came to the first Russia-Africa summit in 2019, according to presidential aide Yury Ushakov, a striking disappointment for the Kremlin despite a flurry of diplomatic efforts in Africa and a sign of dismay in African nations about a war that has raised food and fuel prices, hurting vulnerable populations. An additional 10 African states are sending prime ministers, Ushakov said.
African leaders are well accustomed to foreign leaders promising big and failing to deliver. But statistics tell an especially stark story of broken Russian promises. At the African summit in 2019, Putin promised to more than double trade with Africa to nearly $40 billion, from about $16.8 billion, within five years. By 2021, it had reached only $17.7 billion, according to the state-run Tass news agency, citing Russian customs data, mainly Russian exports of arms and grain. It is a puny sum compared with $295 billion for the European Union, $254 billion for China and $83.7 billion for the United States.
Those figures underscore African nations' economic interests, but Russia's humanitarian contribution to Africa is even more dismal, despite the food security emergency. Russia has donated less than $6.5 million to the U.N. World Food Program this year, according to the agency's figures — less than Honduras ($42 million), South Sudan ($15 million) or Guinea Bissau ($6.9 million), three of the world's poorest, most fragile nations.
Kremlin Blames West For Small Number of Leaders Due at Russia-Africa Summit | Russia | The Guardian
US offiicial: "We are seeing signs of preparatory moves for additional forces in the Zaporizhzhia area to come into the fight. But it’s not clear what the purpose of those moves may be...There is not a high sense of confidence that this is the big move" https://t.co/XmFn9Fj9oe pic.twitter.com/uHsM752jcF
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) July 27, 2023
This shit better be psyops and not some Western officials blabbed without clearance and now they're trying to walk back on it.
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