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💬 “Russia’s preponderance in several countries, in the economic, military, political and ideological spheres, directly influences the US, which is already planning laws to prevent the extension of these partnerships, which they consider to be evil and against American interests,” Carolina Vasconcelos, a researcher at the Conjuncture Assessment Center (NAC) for the Sub-Saharan Africa region, told Sputnik.

Last month, the US Congress has received a bill aimed at reviewing Washington-South Africa ties over the latter’s links to Russia, China, and other non-Western states for allegedly “undermining US national security or foreign policy interests.”

The implications of this proposed action extend not only to Pretoria but also to other African states, such as Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger.

According to the researcher, what is happening now — and has already happened in other nations, such as Burkina Faso — reinforces the colonization of African states.

💬”AGOA has already been withdrawn from several southern African countries because, according to the US, it was against them or was not becoming ‘democratic enough’. It is a euphemism, of ‘not doing what I want’,” she said.