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.

So what are the US Marines up to in South Sudan these days?

Delivering humanitarian aid, I would guess, because after all, those po' black folks just can't figure out how to manage their affairs and feed their people etc..

The think tank here at Falling Downs has long been skeptical about the US role in the manufacturing of this fake state.

While the epic fail that is South Sudan seems to make headlines on a regular basis, US involvement there is oddly absent from the news horizon.

The media blackout was briefly breached a few days ago when an unmarked airplane landed on a highway near the capital of Uganda, and turned out to have a cargo of US soldiers. Apparently they had been on their way to South Sudan.

To do what?

Who knows?