Election 2023: Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and most deeply contested … the world goes to Munich….Asian pirouettes….and Ukrainian cartoonist Kazanevsky's Potemkin soldiers.
I am certainly on the lookout for that .... tho for the moment it looks like all the leading contenders are pretty much pro-western! After all, they've seen what's happened when the Wagner Group arrived in some of their neighbors !!
Re Nigerian outcome: Will it have a bearing on how the nation aligns itself in the (so far economic-diplomatic) conflict between the U.S. alliance and the China-Russia axis?
If Obi wins, especially handily, Nigeria's future could look much brighter than it has for several era.
He has good ideas and good energy. But, if elected, whether he could keep the massive nation from falling apart is not as certain. A Christian Igbo in a heavily Muslim nation could arouse major antagonisms of the kind that Nigeria hardly needs. However, he might be able help Nigeria break from its stagnant past.
TWTW: The World This Week / Episode #27
Not much, I'm afraid, Patrick. The Helsinki Times (an online only English-language) paper, had this:
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/22973-us-and-norway-blew-up-the-nord-stream-pipelines-seymour-hersh.html
This from MRonline:
https://mronline.org/2023/02/16/media-ignore-seymour-hersh-bombshell-report-of-u-s-destroying-nord-stream-ii/
They point out that the only news agency to carry a story about Hersh's effort was Reuters but no major news outlet picked up its dispatches...
Business Insider called it a 'gift to Putin' ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-embraces-hersh-claims-biden-blew-up-nord-stream-2-2023-2?amp
I have to say, sourcing seems pretty thin, imho, even by Sy's standards!!
Sorry....
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I am certainly on the lookout for that .... tho for the moment it looks like all the leading contenders are pretty much pro-western! After all, they've seen what's happened when the Wagner Group arrived in some of their neighbors !!
Re Nigerian outcome: Will it have a bearing on how the nation aligns itself in the (so far economic-diplomatic) conflict between the U.S. alliance and the China-Russia axis?
If Obi wins, especially handily, Nigeria's future could look much brighter than it has for several era.
He has good ideas and good energy. But, if elected, whether he could keep the massive nation from falling apart is not as certain. A Christian Igbo in a heavily Muslim nation could arouse major antagonisms of the kind that Nigeria hardly needs. However, he might be able help Nigeria break from its stagnant past.
Are there any European views regarding the Seymour Hersh article about the Nordstream pipeline?