More signs US influence is fading

This week 17 African heads of state will sit down with Russian president Putin. They'll discuss topics of mutual interest, no doubt including the Ukraine war. The African nations trotted out a peace plan for the war about a month ago. That was dismissed in Western media as a fool's errand because the Africans fell short of demanding Russia vacate all Ukrainian territory, including Crimea. In fact no African nation thus far has joined America's call to cease and desist trading with Russia. We are led to believe that Ukrainian grain exports are essential to preventing famine in Africa. In reality, virtually all grain exports over the past year went to rich countries, mostly as cattle feed. That's why Africa doesn't buy the bullshit that Putin is starving them. It'll be an interesting meeting. Isolated Russia is non-stop engaged with high-level meetings with countries around the world. Mainwhile, America's top diplomat, Foreign Secretary Antony Blinken, is in Tonga (population 125,000) bragging up the new US embassy building and the partnership with Tonga to contain China. While Russia forges alliances with Africa (population 1,250,000,000), America forges alliances with Tonga.