#Ukraine: The African Summit and Russian ambitions. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
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🗓️ 4 August 2023
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#Ukraine: The African Summit and Russian ambitions. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
https://apnews.com/article/russia-africa-putin-ukraine-grain-food-be35ba24397aaac84d36764a5ce7db95
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| 0:00.0 | We think capability, handling, grip and safety should always be full-time jobs. |
| 0:16.0 | That's why every SUV we make has permanent four-wheel drive, a standard. |
| 0:25.0 | Subaru, all-wheel drive, all the time. |
| 0:36.0 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. Ukraine conflict. The headlines from London. |
| 0:41.0 | Poland accuses Ukraine of lack of gratitude for supporting the war. |
| 0:45.0 | Or, Russia war live, Russia shoots down drones heading to Moscow. |
| 0:50.0 | Or, Ukraine, Russia war. Russians retreating, in a quote, from positions around Andriftka. |
| 0:58.0 | Or, Russia deserves a threatens to blow himself up with hand grenade. In other words, the chaos of war. |
| 1:04.0 | The first three reports are wrong. You do what you can. The drones seem to be a new phase in some fashion. |
| 1:11.0 | The drone attacks on Moscow. The drone attacks on elements of the Black Sea fleet. |
| 1:17.0 | However, I turn to a larger picture that is ongoing in this contest in Europe, |
| 1:23.0 | which is the romancing of the global south by all contestants, NATO and Russia. |
| 1:30.0 | I start with Russia because of recent events in Moscow, the so-called Africa Summit. |
| 1:35.0 | And I welcome Anatoly Ivanov, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, |
| 1:41.0 | to comment on the Africa Summit because this comes following the decision to end the grain deal as it was |
| 1:49.0 | and is not replaced with something I can now read out. |
| 1:53.0 | Anatoly, a very good evening to you, the report from Petersburg in these last days. |
| 1:58.0 | Some African leaders arrived in Russia for a summit with President Putin as he seeks allies amid the fighting in Ukraine. |
| 2:07.0 | Putin has billed the two-day summit, goes this report, |
| 2:11.0 | as a major event that would bolster ties with a continent of 1.3 billion that is increasingly assertive on the global stage. |
| 2:20.0 | Putin said, today, Africa is asserting itself more and more confidently as one of the poles of the emerging multi-polar world. |
| 2:28.0 | I don't disagree with the President of Russia, however, |
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