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Biden hosts US-Africa summit. The US-Africa Leaders summit should be renamed Russia/China containment summit.

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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned African leaders at a summit on Tuesday that China and Russia risked "destabilizing" the continent with their rising involvement.

“The combination of those activities by those two countries, I think that bears watching. And certainly, I think their influence can be destabilizing,” Lloyd Austin told a panel with several presidents at the start of a three-day US-Africa summit.

Austin said that Russia is “continuing to peddle cheap weapons” and deploying “mercenaries across the continent.”

This was having a “destabilizing” effect, Austin said.

He added that China was raising its footprint in Africa “on a daily basis” through its growing economic influence.

“The troubling piece there is they’re not always transparent in terms of what they’re doing and that creates problems that will be eventually destabilizing if they’re not already,” Austin said.
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America retains considerable clout across much of Africa. It sends many billions of dollars in aid to the continent’s poorest corners — far more than China, which gives little, or Russia, which gives almost nothing.

Still, the growing range of international powers crowding into the continent means that African leaders know they have choices — turning to one ally for aid, and another for weapons, for instance — and don’t like to be forced to take sides.

In the war against Ukraine, several countries including the continent’s economic powerhouse, South Africa, have been reluctant to take sides against Russia. American officials have been careful not to frame this week’s summit as part of America’s wider competition with China.

Some Biden officials are so keen to avoid mention of China that they jokingly call it the “Voldemort” of U.S. foreign policy — a reference to a “Harry Potter” villain whose name is rarely uttered.
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BlackWindMnt said:
reminds me of this..

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Just on time. Swiss population of wolves is going straight to zero sooner or later.

(Switzerland) with fewer than 200 wolves to ease hunting rules​

The Swiss parliament has ironed out differences on proposed legislative amendments that would allow wolves to be hunted more freely. This comes after some lawmakers suggested the animals pose a threat to humans as well as livestock.

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The new rules, however, will allow preemptive hunting of wolves, although only when they are deemed to pose a “threat” to grazing animals.
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